JW Marriott Masai Mara: Wide open Summer 2024 availability
The JW Marriott Masai Mara Lodge is showing wide open award availability in Summer 2024, including most days in June, July, and August 2024 available as awards. Unfortunately, the award rate is a 132,000 points...
Delta SkyMiles: Business class deals aren’t dead. Here’s how to find them.
It's been a long time since Delta's international business class award prices competed favorably with competitors like AA or United, but until a few years ago it was possible to find awards that were...
How to cancel Virgin Atlantic partner awards online
Over the summer I had used my Virgin Atlantic points to book a Delta flight from Detroit to DC. Delta would have charged 16,000 points. Virgin charged only 7,500. Later, our plans changed and...
United Polaris business class to New Zealand: space for up to 9 passengers
Greg caught wind of some excellent United award availability to New Zealand thanks to poking around this morning at Seats.Aero, with some days featuring space for up to 9 passengers in business class on routes...
Using Turkish miles to book United is now easier via phone (hopefully easier online...
I had a funny feeling when I woke up yesterday morning: ever since I noticed the slight update that Turkish made to their website recently, I had a sneaking suspicion that they intended to...
JetBlue’s “free” cancellations are less free on international awards
During the pandemic times, JetBlue joined the other major US airlines in offering free cancellation and redeposit of award tickets. While that is certainly convenient, over the weekend I was reminded of the most...
(EXPIRED) Aeroplan Award Sale: Up to 25% Off Air Canada Flights
Aeroplan has announced an award sale that offers up to 25% off the points price of all Air Canada flights within Canada or between Canada and the US, Mexico, Central America or the Caribbean....
Turkish Star Alliance awards online once again! Book United to Hawaii for 7500 miles...
In 2019, we broke the news on the Turkish Miles & Smiles sweet spot for domestic Star Alliance flights with the revelation that it was possible to book domestic flights on United, including to...
Finally, a Hyatt Award Availability Calendar: A look at Rooms.aero, Seats.aero’s new hotel search...
Seats.aero has been one of my favorite new flight award search tools over the last year. It's not perfect and requires a little bit of previous knowledge to maximize, but the power and speed...
Simple tip: Get sortable search results with Air Canada by turning your phone
File this one under really simply tips, but did you know that by turning your mobile device sideways (into a landscape view), you can get easily-sortable search results on AirCanada.com? I discovered this about...
(EXPIRED) 25% Transfer Bonus from AMEX Membership Rewards to Air France/KLM Flying Blue
American Express Membership Rewards has added a 25% transfer bonus for Air France/KLM Flying Blue for transfers through 9/22/23.
The Deal
Get a 25% bonus when transferring American Express Membership Rewards to Air France/KLM Flying...
Tools for finding impossible hotel awards
Hotel points and free night certificates can be incredibly valuable. With Hyatt, it's possible to pay 45,000 points per night, or less, for stays that would otherwise cost thousands of dollars per night (a...
How to book business class to Southern Africa for 70,000 miles
Africa can be a difficult destination to find award flights for and, the farther south you want to go on the continent, the more expensive (and challenging) it becomes both in terms of availability...
No, Southwest Airlines is not a valuable transfer partner
In the comments on a post last week, a reader named Andrew mentioned the fact that they found Southwest Rapid Rewards to be a "valuable and unique" transfer partner. The justification for that rationale...
