Must-have Amex cards
American Express features the widest array of desirable rewards credit cards on the market, but which are must-have winners for your wallet? This week on Frequent Miler on the Air, we discuss who should...
Stop sleeping on U.S. Bank
I love transferable currencies like Amex Membership Rewards, Capital One miles, and others like those. We most frequently write about those transferable points programs because of the abundance of opportunities to get far outsized...
A return to the SLH Grand Hotel Victoria, a dream within a dream
Last year, in my initial review of the Grand Hotel Victoria Concept & Spa, I wrote the following letter to my long-time location love, Hawaii:
Dear Hawaii: Our love affair has been passionate and heartfelt...
Amazon Prime Big Deal Day Deals (and competitor deals) still alive
Amazon Prime Big Deal Days are more than halfway through, but I wanted to publish a post with a guide to some of the deals we're seeing both at Amazon and beyond as we've...
12+ tips & tricks for Grubhub orders: Get free food, discounts, free Grubhub+, hotel...
A few years ago I published a post sharing how you can maximize orders with Grubhub by taking advantage of their partnerships, special offers and more.
A lot has changed since that was published, so...
JetBlue’s Mosaic FoundersCard benefit. Is this a joke?
In the recent post "Digging into JetBlue’s amazing status match for Delta elites" I wrote about the easy status match my wife and I had taken advantage of to go from high level Delta...
Turkish Airlines 787-9 Business Class: Bottom Line Review
Turkish Airlines' 787 is a business class product that I've heard great things about over the last few years, but have never been able to check out personally. A springtime trip to the Middle...
Amex expands once in a lifetime family language, MGM gets hacked and airline jilts...
Amex continues to expand once in a lifetime family language, massive data breaches at MGM and an airline jumps ship from Star Alliance to SkyTeam. All that and more in this week's Saturday Selection,...
Buying groups: Big risks / big rewards
Buying groups can be an appealing way to increase credit card spend (thereby earning nearly limitless rewards), but not without significant risk. On this week's Frequent Miler on the Air, we discuss what buying...
Nick’s end-of-year status push strategy
Earlier this week, Greg published a post as a form of self-therapy in deciding which credit cards to open next. Today, I'm going to use that same technique of taking you on the journey...
Digging into JetBlue’s amazing status match for Delta elites
Suddenly, my wife has top-tier JetBlue Mosaic 4 elite status and I'm just one notch down at Mosaic 3. We've each flown JetBlue only once in our lives... in 2016. We have our status...
Plans for expanding my credit card collection
Even though it seems like I have all of the best rewards card on the market, every now and then great offers appear for cards I don't yet have. That's happening now and I'm...
A buying group deal gone wrong
One of the many ways to increase credit card spend and get most of it back is through buying groups. We've written a number of posts about them -- Tim has a post with...
Major changes to the American Express Business Gold card: here’s what’s happening
American Express has made some wide-ranging changes to the Business Gold card today. There are some great new benefits and changes to eligible 4x spending categories, but those same changes to 4x categories will...
