Emirates Slashes Award Fees – Now Worth A Second Look
Emirates has slashed the taxes and fees charged on award bookings by ~90%. In the past, their $1,000+ fees on award flights killed any...
(Updated) American’s poor “waived award redeposit” policy
Note: We've received a number of success reports of recent cancellations with waived fees despite the way the terms are written and quoted below. It...
United one-time lounge passes extended for 3 months
This morning in response to our updated COVID-19 cancellation and elite status policies post, a reader asked if we had heard any news about...
Choice Privileges bumping status up +1 for 2020 (extend w/ 5 nights)
In this morning's newly updated guide to COVID-19 cancellation policies, we added the various elite status extensions and 2020 shortcuts added for each program....
Air Canada To Let You Cancel Tickets & Convert To Non-Expiring Vouchers Or Miles
Air Canada has announced what appears to be a fairly generous policy. From June 15, 2020, you'll be able to cancel your flight up...
Chase Now Allows You To Dispute Business Transactions Online
Chase has made a great improvement for business cardholders as they now allow you to dispute transactions online rather than having to call.
Disputing transactions...
Iceland To Offer Free COVID-19 Tests For Tourists
Iceland has announced plans to open up the country to tourists in the coming weeks. As part of that plan, they'll provide COVID-19 tests...
Citi shows points earned with each ThankYou card transaction
Four days ago, I emailed Nick to ask him about a comment he had made in one of our Frequent Miler Live discussions. He...
Upside: Save Money At Thousands Of Gas Stations Nationwide
Update: 6/15/22: A few months ago GetUpside changed its name to Upside.
Update 5/20/20: Upside has changed its referral program, although it's not clear if...
[Update: Now back to 5 credit cards] New Amex speed limit: 4 credit cards,...
UPDATE: It appears that this was a temporary change. Amex is back to having a 5 credit card limit.
It has historically been possible to...
Plastiq bonuses down 90% for referrals and new accounts
This news came out about 10 days ago and we changed our Plastiq Credit Card Payments Complete Guide accordingly, but I just realized that...
GiftCardMall Now Charging Shipping For Physical Gift Cards (Visa, Mastercard & 3rd Party)
At some point in the last few days GiftCardMall started charging $1.99 when buying physical gift cards.
I noticed this yesterday when GiftCardMall launched a...
Capital One losing 2 transfer partners (Qatar, Hainan)
Capital One is losing two transfer partners effective 5/13/20: Qatar Airways Privilege Club and Hainan Airlines Fortune Wings Club.
I suspect that neither of these partners...
Southwest updating Companion Pass and elite status counters
We posted a few weeks ago about how Southwest is handling 2020 Companion Pass and elite status qualification by essentially adding some qualifying points...
