What are Sonesta points worth?
Sonesta is a hotel program that's tended to fly under the radar for most points and miles folks (including me). It's been around since the 1930's, but remained fairly small for several decades. That's...
Solved: Problem booking Air France/KLM with Virgin points
Virgin points are often the cheapest option for booking Air France or KLM flights. For example, for a trip to Paris I'm planning, I found a great Air France business class award that was...
Swapping my Bilt points for Alaska miles
On Monday, July 1, for that day only, Bilt will be offering up to a 100% transfer bonus to Alaska Mileage Plan. That's awesome. Yes, I know that previous Bilt transfer bonuses have been...
Chase Sapphire Lounges: Locations and how to access them
A few years ago, Chase first dipped its toe into the model of offering a dedicated airport lounge for ultra-premium cardholders with the Chase Sapphire Lounge by The Club. While not offering as robust...
The challenges of crafting the Flying by the Seat of our Points challenge
The 2024 Frequent Miler annual challenge is over, with Flying by the Seat of our Points being won by Tim (congrats again Tim!)
Tim, Greg and Nick were the challengers, with me and Carrie being...
Wells Fargo losing millions on Bilt card, the ball drops on Curve and online...
Online passport renewal is back again (sort of), the ball drops on Curve in the US and the Bilt card is costing Wells Fargo $10 million per month. All that and more in this...
How Greg found awesome awards like A320 business class, new Hyatt & Delta point...
One of the outcomes of our recent challenge is that it gave us all a lot more practice with numerous award booking tools to help us find awesome awards at the last minute. This...
What are Hyatt points worth?
It's been a little over a year and a half since we did an analysis of the redemption value of Hyatt points. Our last one, in late 2022, was smack-dab in the middle of...
Amex Business Gold 155k offer with no lifetime language
There is yet another targeted welcome offer for the American Express Business Gold card, this one offering an incredible 150,000 Membership Rewards after $10K in spend and then tacking on an additional 5K when...
How I found awesome awards for our last minute travel challenge
During our team's 2024 last-minute-travel challenge, Flying by the Seat of our Points, each of the contestants found excellent award flights. In this post, I've described step by step (to the best of my...
Japan Airlines 777 “old” First Class: Bottom Line Review (BKK-HND and HND-ORD)
On the way home from our recent "Flying by the Seat of Our Points" challenge, I had the opportunity to fly Japan Airlines first class both from Bangkok to Tokyo and from Tokyo to...
Which Marriott Bonvoy card is best?
Given that both Amex and Chase issue Marriott Bonvoy credit cards, and that they've recently introduced even more Marriott cards in 2022, there are a boatload of cards that earn the same type of...
Complete Guide to Avios: British Airways, Finnair, Qatar, Iberia, and Aer Lingus
"Avios" is the name of the points currency shared by several airline frequent flyer programs: British Airways, Finnair, Iberia, Aer Lingus and Qatar Airways. Points earned through one of those programs can be moved...
A Turkish Miles & Smiles sweet spot, using LifeMiles for Thai Airways business class...
We're doing something a little different for the Saturday Selection this week. As regular readers will know, we've just returned from our "Flying by the Seat of our Points" last minute travel challenge. So,...
