Choice rebate on gift card redemptions (poor value)
Choice Privileges is offering a 10% rebate when you redeem your Choice points for gift cards. That still makes for a poor redemption that ordinarily...
Non-travel point redemptions that don’t stink
Since 2008, I haven't had a year go by without an international trip (a fact I had to double-check by going through old photos...
(EXPIRED) Free miles for social distancing from oneworld program S7
Oneworld member S7 is running a cool promotion: get 100 miles for free every day that you confirm you are home. The promo runs from...
United waiving redeposit fees for cancelled flights
Over the past couple of days, we have seen several reports in our Frequent Miler Insiders Facebook group indicating that United is now waiving...
Hilton extending status until 2022, pausing point expiration, flexible bookings
Hilton Honors has announced their plans to extend member status and pause points expiration and the news is very good: all members whose status was...
Marriott response: Extended certs, upgrades, flexible cancellations
Marriott has updated its COVID-19 / coronavirus cancellation policies and made some really positive changes for members, making new and existing bookings more flexible...
(EXPIRED) Flying Blue Promo Rewards For March 2020: Europe from under 16K each way...
Flying Blue Promo Rewards for March 2020 are out and it's a fairly poor selection this month. Only a couple of US cities are included...
Get 20K points per referral on Gold card (YMMV)
In late 2018, Greg wrote about Maximizing value from Amex multi-referrals. That year, American Express debuted the ability to generate a referral link that...
(EXPIRED) Targeted 20% transfer bonus to Qantas from Membership Rewards
American Express Membership Rewards is offering a targeted 20% transfer bonus to Qantas Frequent Flyer. As is often the case with Amex's targeted transfer bonuses,...
Wow! Alaska joins Oneworld in mid-2021, expands partnership with AA
In a surprise move that I don't think anybody saw coming, as reported by The Points Guy this morning, Alaska Airlines and American Airlines...
Hyatt Category changes 2020: A mixed bag
Hyatt category changes for 2020 have been announced today and will take effect on March 22, 2020. In total, 117 properties increase in price and...
Capital One adds Accor and Wyndham as transfer partners
Capital One has introduced two new transfer partners today: Wyndham Rewards and Accor Live Limitless at the following transfer ratios:
2 Capital One miles = 1 Accor Live...
(EXPIRED) Miles without flying: Singapore KrisFlyer referral promo
Singapore KrisFlyer is offering an interesting promotion: get 500 miles for each person you refer who opens a Singapore KrisFlyer account and has activity, which...
Have an old Marriott travel package you can’t use? You might be able to...
Marriott's handling of the old Marriott Travel packages was extremely poor to put it charitably. Between an announced conversion that made most package holders losers...
