National and Enterprise rental car programs extend elite status and free days
National Car Rental and Enterprise Rent-A-Car have both announced a full year's extension of rental car elite status and Free Days, extending elite status set to expire in February 2022 through February 2023 and Free...
[Update: Brex also] Capital One losing JetBlue TrueBlue as a transfer partner
Update 10/2/21: Miles Talk points out that Brex is also losing transfers to JetBlue TrueBlue on 10/25. It will be interesting to see if other issuers also lose JetBlue or what is happening on...
Match your Radisson Americas elite status to Radisson Hotels International
I expect that many readers have Radisson Americas Gold status thanks to having a Radisson Rewards Premier Visa. Now that Radisson has split up into Radisson Americas and Radisson Hotels Everywhere-Else, your Gold status...
Ouch: Pay Yourself Back categories changing 10/1
We had previously reported that Chase's Pay Yourself Back feature would be extended through at least the end of the year but that it wasn't clear whether the categories would stay the same or...
Workarounds for the UK Air Passenger Duty
One Mile at a Time published an excellent post today about the UK Air Passenger duty that's worth a read. In short, the UK Air Passenger Duty is a tax levied on itineraries departing...
(EXPIRED) Schwab Platinum Invest with Rewards at 1.1c starting 9/1/21
Update 9/1/21 The transfer ratio was due to drop from 1.25c to 1.1c today, but it's still showing as 1.25c. If you thought you'd missed your opportunity to cash out Membership Rewards to Schwab...
American Airlines makes big improvements to travel credits
American Airlines has announced major improvements for how they handle travel credits. The Points Guy reports that American Airlines will convert existing "Flight Credit" into "Trip Credit" and that credit will gain a good...
Upside.com is closing, redeem rewards by 9/24/21
Business travel booking site Upside.com sent out an email today announcing that they are going out of business. This won't affect many readers (and don't confuse this with GetUpside, which is an entirely different...
Amex apology emails promising points
American Express starting sending out emails yesterday on many Delta and Marriott credit cards apologizing for some sort of mistake made that deprived people of points they should have received. It isn't immediately clear...
Yuck: Acorns increasing fee to $3 per month
Acorns is a micro investing / robo-investing app that we write about from time to time because they occasionally have great referral offers that can make the account temporarily worthwhile. Stephen wrote a post...
Booking Turkish awards is now even harder . . .
The Turkish Miles & Smiles sweet spot for United flights that we uncovered just over two years ago is one of the sweetest spots on any award chart. And it is not the only...
Earn points on a yacht and more SLH properties with Hyatt points
Hyatt has today announced the expansion of their partnership with Small Luxury hotels of the World, with a number of SLH properties newly bookable with World of Hyatt points starting today. In a unique...
American drops reduced mileage awards
American Airlines has long offered discounted award tickets from select airports for holders of the American Airlines credit cards. However, American will no longer offer these Reduced Mileage Awards from 10/1/21 onward. This means...
Will Delta stop being an Amex transfer partner next month?
Update: Gary Leff at View from the Wing and Dave Grossman at Miles Talk both quote sources at Amex stating that this partnership is not ending. Both point to the Delta private jets program as being...
