Brex: How I earned 20K for depositing sales revenue
UPDATE 2/24/21: Multiple people (including our own Nick Reyes) have confirmed that simply adding your Brex Cash bank account to your PayPal wallet (even with a consumer PayPal account) is enough to trigger the...
Searching for Emirates sweet spots with partner airline awards [JAL, Copa, and Qantas awards...
UPDATE 3/2/2021: Emirates has completed their partner devaluations. Now all partner awards follow the same not-great distance based award chart. I no longer know of any good partner awards using Emirates miles.
UPDATE 2/1/2021: Emirates...
Hilton cards: Enhancements for 2021 (dining, wireless, and spend bonuses)
American Express today has launched awesome temporary perks for most of their hotel and airline co-branded cards. In this post I'll highlight the perks available to Hilton cardholders. In separate posts I covered perks...
Is the hammer about to drop on spending techniques?
Is your favorite bank about to start charging cash advance fees for your favorite types of purchases? You probably got an email this week alerting you to transaction types that will incur a cash...
Free Spirit: Surprisingly good, but still suspicious
Spirit Airlines Saver$ Club is a terrific value today and Spirit Airlines Free Spirit points can be worth far more than you might expect, yet despite some massive surprises in both of those departments...
How to max out your monthly $30 in free PayPal spend
Don't forget that through June Amex is offering $30 per month back on purchases made through PayPal and paid with your consumer Amex Platinum card. This includes the Morgan Stanley Platinum card, the Schwab...
Saving thousands of miles with United Excursionist Perk
This morning, I posted about how United is now offering flights for as few as 3K miles each way on some routes and how that cheap award pricing would make for some potentially great...
United flights now from 3K miles each way, making for cheaper Excursionist Perks
Over the past several months, I have paid very little attention to domestic award pricing. I just haven't had any interest in flying domestically during the pandemic. I still get airfare email alerts and...
Where Marriott Suite Night Awards don’t work
Thanks to Marriott's overlapping early 2021 promotions, I expect that many readers will soon have access to Marriott's Choice Benefits. One benefit you can choose is a set of 5 Suite Night Awards. These...
Where Hyatt Suite Upgrade Awards don’t work
In my recent post about my perfect Hyatt mattress run, I mentioned paying more to secure a beachfront room. In response, a reader asked why I didn't use a Hyatt Suite Upgrade Award for...
No such thing as a free upgrade
On this week's episode of Frequent Miler on the Air, Greg and I discuss the impending challenge(s) I face thanks to him Passing the GUC. This will either turn out to be an amazing...
Passing the GUC: Greg gives global upgrades to Nick… with a catch
Alright Nick. You asked for it and here it is: Two Global Upgrade Certificates (GUCs) just for you. But there's a catch. You have to take me with you.
Clowns to the left of me!
Jokers...
Now live: Spirit goes revenue-based, makes elite status easier with new Free Spirit program
UPDATE 1/21/201: Spirit's new Free Spirit loyalty program is now live. Details can be found on Spirit's website here. We will soon follow up with analyses of the program and its new credit cards,...
Bank account bonus goals for 2021
Last year, I put a renewed focus on bank account bonuses. In my case, that was both a function of spending more time at home than I had in the past decade and also...
