Guide to booking Preferred Hotels with points
Since this was last published almost two months ago, the number of Preferred Hotels that appear to be bookable with I Prefer points has dropped dramatically. Previously I counted 425 hotels that were bookable...
Cathay Pacific: Good first class award availability between New York and Hong Kong
Reader Elliot sent us an email that highlighted a surprising number of Cathay Pacific first class awards that are currently bookable between New York (JFK) and Hong Kong. Even better is the fact that...
A battle of the hotel award alert tools leads to loving them all the...
Greg has written extensively about the best award search tools, both for flights (we also did a podcast episode about the 5 best) and for hotels. I've only recently gotten into using what is...
ANA award chart changes get an A…and an F (One way award flights bookable,...
One of the biggest frustrations of ANA's Mileage Club loyalty program has long been the fact that it's not been possible to book one way awards. That - and a couple of other factors...
Best ways to get to Asia using points and miles (2025)
If you find yourself daydreaming about the snow monkeys in Japan, the hawker centers of Singapore, the ancient history that abounds around Asia, or just a really long flight in a comfortable seat with...
Delta SkyMiles Complete Guide (2025)
Delta SkyMiles Overview
While Delta is often lauded for their flight performance and customer service, their loyalty program has long been the butt of jokes in the frequent flier community. Delta often charges far more...
Roame Award Tool Complete Guide
When Roame debuted it was amazing. While point.me was the first tool to offer user friendly flight award searches across many airline loyalty programs, Roame was the first to do it so that results...
Seats.aero: a wonderfully nerdy tool for finding Unicorn flight awards
Seats.aero makes it easy to find close-in awards on long-haul flights. When I first learned about this tool I was immediately captivated by it. This is not a polished end-user tool like point.me or...
Current point transfer bonuses for April 2025
The best points rewards programs, in our opinion, are those that allow points to be transferred to many different airline and hotel loyalty programs. In this way, it's often possible to get outsized value...
Air Canada’s United devaluation hurts less if you travel more
Air Canada recently devalued awards for travel on United Airlines flights. Whereas awards for travel on United long conformed to Air Canada's regular partner award chart, it was recently announced that United would join...
Dumping fees when booking Delta One with Virgin points
For many years, if you wanted to fly Delta One business class to Europe, your best bet was to use Virgin Atlantic points. It used to cost 50,000 points plus $5.60 for that one-way...
Virgin Atlantic jacks up Delta One surcharges departing Europe to more than $1,000 one-way
Virgin Atlantic long ago added big time surcharges on Delta One business class awards from the US to Europe (around $1,000 in taxes and fees one way!). Surcharges on flights departing Europe had been...
Best ways to get to Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific using miles...
Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific are bucket-list destinations for many travelers, in no small part due to the travel time and the cost of getting there. Because of that, it makes sense...
[Changes go live 3/25] Air Canada Aeroplan adopting dynamic pricing for some partners (including...
Reminder that these changes go live tomorrow, 3/25/25, so this is a last chance to make bookings under the current chart before several airlines become dynamically priced.
~Two months ago, Air Canada Aeroplan announced that...
