Best uses of Amex Membership Rewards points
Membership Rewards sweet spots are plentiful and strong. Indeed, Amex Membership Rewards is the strongest transferable points program in terms of the sheer number...
Chasing Hilton points: Transfer with a bonus, or apply for Hilton cards?
Over the past year, we've become increasingly excited about Hilton redemptions. That's driven in large part due to Hilton's partnership with Small Luxury Hotels...
The most promiscuous airline programs
My favorite points programs, by far, are transferable points programs. These are programs where points can be transferred to airline and hotel programs, making...
Capital One Miles Complete Guide
Capital One "Miles" have become a premier transferable currency system over the past several years. In addition to having the ability to cover travel...
How to get AA elite benefits when using partner miles, business class bribery and...
Turkish Airlines uses business class flights as bribery, Pepper providing points proof and how to get AA elite benefits on a ticket booked through...
Twists in the game: Transferring points for hotels, a companion mileage run, a Wells...
This week has included a number of fun twists in the miles and points game: Alaska and Hawaiian's merger has moved forward at lightspeed,...
Contemplating an Alaska Hawaiian mileage run
With the merger between Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines in full swing, we've both published details of the merger and talked on the podcast about...
Alaska / Hawaiian Airlines mileage transfers are now live
Wow. That was fast.
Just eight days ago, Alaska Airlines announced that its acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines was complete. As part of that announcement, Alaska...
How to find and book JAL’s new A350 first class
Ben, at One Mile at a Time, describes Japan Airline's new first class as "Unbelievably Good!!!" And, yes, three exclamation points were apparently required....
Wells Fargo has added Virgin Atlantic as a new transfer partner; transfers start at...
Wells Fargo announced today that it's added Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Red as its newest transfer partner on a 1:1 basis. Even better, there's...
Hotels via transferable points: it’s a new game
Not long ago, if you wanted to use your transferable points for hotel stays the advice was simple: transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards or Bilt...
How long does it take to transfer points to airline and hotel programs?
We love transferable points programs. The ability to move bank points into multiple airline and hotel programs makes it possible to get far outsized...
Marriott points now transfer to Starbucks, JetBlue gets fancy and Capital One extends popular...
JetBlue tries to go from zero to hero, Capital One extends popular get-into-jail-free benefit and Marriott now has a new transfer partner. All that...
250K points from a single card, the best hotels you can book with points,...
This week at Frequent Miler, we wrote about how you might be able to find a newly-targeted chance at 250,000 points from a single...
