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Hilton offering 72hr advance upgrades for elites & shared digital keys

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Hilton has introduced two new innovations that should be small (perhaps very small) positives. First, they have launched the ability to share your room's Digital...
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United extended vouchers until 12/31/22 (and made them easier to use)

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File this under "old news", but somehow I missed this a month ago and so I figured it was worth a quick post for...
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National and Enterprise rental car programs extend elite status and free days

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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...
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[Update: Brex also] Capital One losing JetBlue TrueBlue as a transfer partner

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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...
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Match your Radisson Americas elite status to Radisson Hotels International

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I expect that many readers have Radisson Americas Gold status thanks to having a Radisson Rewards Premier Visa.  Now that Radisson has split up...
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Ouch: Pay Yourself Back categories changing 10/1

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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...
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Workarounds for the UK Air Passenger Duty

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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...
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(EXPIRED) Schwab Platinum Invest with Rewards at 1.1c starting 9/1/21

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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...
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American Airlines makes big improvements to travel credits

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American Airlines has announced major improvements for how they handle travel credits. The Points Guy reports that American Airlines will convert existing "Flight Credit"...
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Upside.com is closing, redeem rewards by 9/24/21

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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...
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Amex apology emails promising points

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American Express starting sending out emails yesterday on many Delta and Marriott credit cards apologizing for some sort of mistake made that deprived people...
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Yuck: Acorns increasing fee to $3 per month

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Acorns is a micro investing / robo-investing app that we write about from time to time because they occasionally have great referral offers that...
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Booking Turkish awards is now even harder . . .

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The Turkish Miles & Smiles sweet spot for United flights that we uncovered just over two years ago is one of the sweetest spots...
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Earn points on a yacht and more SLH properties with Hyatt points

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Hyatt has today announced the expansion of their partnership with Small Luxury hotels of the World, with a number of SLH properties newly bookable...

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