400K miles + 5 free nights from Madness, a new look at elite status...
If you like the sound of getting 400,000 miles and 5 free nights, you'll need to be a little nutty and check out posts about our Million Mile Madness below. Elsewhere on the blog...
Things I’ve learned already from Million Mile Madness 2024 (On Nick’s mind)
I have a confession to make: I've barely slept all week. In fact, I'm writing this post in the wee hours of the night after spending hours putting together one itinerary after another for our Million...
Miles & free hotel nights up for grabs in Frequent Miler’s Million Mile Madness...
If you've been following our Million Mile Madness 2024, you know that we've been asking for your help in crafting our itineraries as Greg, Stephen and I (Nick) compete to create an itinerary that...
Which program has the best game? Alaska vs. AA
As we reported previously, Alaska Airlines is planning big changes to their Mileage Plan rewards program starting January 2025. The program will offer new ways to earn Milestone rewards and elite status. To some...
How often do airline and hotel programs offer transfer bonuses?
Let's say that you have a healthy stash of transferable points like Amex Membership Rewards or Chase Ultimate Rewards. You see that there's a 30% transfer bonus to a specific travel partner that lasts...
A second team challenge, catching up on the awesome Alaska changes, and more [Week...
A second team challenge in 2024 that will bring three of us around the world again is kicking off and needs your help. Elsewhere on the blog and podcast, we discuss huge (and largely...
Start your (search) engines: You’re invited to Frequent Miler’s Million Mile Madness challenge
Challenge accepted.
When SAS EuroBonus launched a promotion last week to earn one million miles by flying 15 different SkyTeam airlines by the end of 2024, we knew we couldn't resist it. Given Frequent Miler's...
Convert Bilt points to Qantas, Virgin Australia, and ITA Airways Volare (You can, but...
File this under "interesting, but probably useless." Bilt's newfound ability to transfer points to Accor Live Limitless has unlocked the ability to transfer Bilt points indirectly to several airline programs that are not currently...
Alaska Mileage Plan updates: Earn status with award flights, credit cards, shopping portal spend...
Alaska Airlines announced today a slew of changes to how its Mileage Plan loyalty program will run from January 1, 2025. Big changes like this often make us apprehensive as usually these types of...
Getting the elite experience without elite status via credit card & preferred partner hotel...
This hobby has spoiled me into a love of luxury hotels and elite status perks thanks to both shortcuts to status and many amazing "free" stays I have enjoyed using hotel points. Things like...
Get free seaplane transfers to this Hilton/SLH Maldives property (& possibly dinner too)
Visiting the Maldives doesn't come cheap, even when booking stays with points or free night certificates. My wife and I celebrated our 20th anniversary at the Conrad Maldives in August and despite being able...
Catching up on 2 weeks of big miles & points news
I've been on vacation since September 26th and a lot has happened in the points & miles space in the 2+ weeks that I was away! AA and Hyatt deepened (and arguably devalued) their...
Best credit card combinations for earning tons of transferable points
In our opinion, transferable points programs like Chase Ultimate Rewards and Amex Membership Rewards are the most valuable points (or “miles”) to accumulate. These points can often be used to book discounted travel and, even better, can be...
Chase Ink shutdowns, RIP to LoungeBuddy and Amex limits Priority Pass access for Platinum...
Chase Ink shutdowns on the rise, LoungeBuddy becomes a dead program walking and Amex begins to put limits on the amount of yearly Priority Pass visits Platinum cardholders get. All that and more in...
