Stuck abroad or know someone who is? Points Pros offers help
One Mile at a Time's award booking service, PointsPros, is offering assistance to help those stuck abroad who need to get home. To be clear, PointsPros is offering assistance in booking flights for the purposes...
Southwest extending travel funds to June 2021
Southwest has finally announced how they are handling expiring travel funds in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and it is as good as could be expected: if you have unused travel funds that have...
Apple card offers skipped payment
Apple card users are being offered the opportunity to skip the March payment without incurring any interest or fees, enabling those who opt in to skip the payment due this month and pay it next...
United’s latest schedule change policy: no refund for 12 months
This news broke over the weekend, but in catching up on what I missed yesterday I thought it was worth reporting this for those who like me had mostly been away from the news...
Hilton extending free night certificates to August 31, 2021
Hilton has announced that they are extending free night certificates in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. They have sent out the following email to members with free night certificates:
To recap, free night certificates that were...
$1K gift cards out of stock at some Simon Malls
We have received a few reports from readers about a few Simon Malls being out of stock of $1K Visa Gift Cards. I posted a picture in our Frequent Miler Insiders Facebook group of...
(Update: Now includes more dates) JetBlue: no cancellation fees for flights through 4/30 (or...
Update 3/11/20: JetBlue has expanded their change/cancellation fee waiver policy. Currently, all change and cancel fees for travel through 4/30/20 are waived, regardless of when you purchased your ticket (flights may be re-booked for...
(Update: Now Valid On Flights Booked Before March 1) American Airlines Waiving Change Fees...
Update 3/10/2020: In addition to Delta and United, American Airlines has announced that they're extending their waived change fees to include flights that were booked before March 1, 2020. This is valid for flights...
[Update] Delta & United Announce Waived Change Fee Policies [Update: Now Includes Flights Purchased...
Update 3/10/2020: United has also expanded the waived change fees to include flights purchased on or before March 2 for travel from March 9 to April 30, 2020. This allows you to change your...
Hyatt Offering 10k Points When Cancelling Non-Refundable Bookings Made Before March 8
Hyatt has once again shown why they have such a highly regarded loyalty program. They announced last night that they'll be awarding 10,000 World of Hyatt bonus points for any guests that booked a...
United Makes Awful Change To Their Policy On Schedule Changes
United was the last of the main US airlines to announce that they'd waive change fees for flights booked during March, but they're sadly first with an adjustment to their schedule change policy and...
Possible FlexPerks devaluation: Only $0.01 per point via real-time mobile rewards?
There are multiple data points at Flyertalk and there is some discussion at reddit about a possible devaluation of FlexPerks Rewards. Since 2018, FlexPerks redemptions made via Real-Time Mobile Rewards have been at a rate of 1.5c...
Avianca adds basic economy fares to/from North America
Avianca has today (3/4/20) begun selling basic economy style fares on flights to and from the United States. They are marketing their flights in "sizes" from Extra-Small ro XXL, which will indicate how much is...
Alaska matches JetBlue: no change or cancellation fees (temporarily)
Update 3/13/20: Alaska has now expanded this policy quite a bit as follows (See our Coronavirus cancellation policies complete guide for more):
Link to waiver policy
For tickets purchased on or before February 26, 2020 for...
