United’s Excursionist Perk: Ideal for Positioning Flights?
Nick's recent post "Taking an Excursionist Perk for a spin for a trip to Africa" showed ways to use United's Excursionist Perk to save lots of miles when flying within Africa. In this case,...
Booking Southwest Airlines flights via the Chase Travel Portal should be a great deal,...
I was initially excited, but soon became pretty disappointed -- booking Southwest Airlines flights via the Chase Travel portal just isn't as good as I'd hoped on a number of fronts. I probably shouldn't...
Taking an Excursionist Perk for a spin for a trip to Africa
In a post last week, I wrote about plans for a trip next year leveraging Air Canada Aeroplan that will have us stop in Europe and in Mauritius en route to mainland Africa. We've...
Book Qatar flights with JetBlue TrueBlue points
As reported by Award Wallet, you can now book at least some Qatar Airways flights with JetBlue TrueBlue points. This launches on the heels of Qatar temporarily enabling redemptions of Qatar Avios on JetBlue...
Plentiful Singapore Airlines business class award space New York-Frankfurt (60K via Aeroplan) over next...
Yesterday, I highlighted plentiful business class award space to Europe in summer 2024. Today, View from the Wing highlights an alert from The Points Analyst with another option for business class awards to Europe...
Another trip down the Air Canada Aeroplan rabbit hole
It all started when MSC cancelled my free cruise.
My wife and I, having participated ourselves in the casino cruise matching shenanigans about which I've written volumes, had a free cruise booked for the family...
Uh-oh: Did Qatar create a new JetBlue award chart?
The other day, we reported on the ability to book JetBlue flights with Qatar Avios and later updated the post to note fantastic availability on European routes and the ability to book one-way Mint...
Book JetBlue (including Mint) award tickets with Qatar Avios
Update: When we posted this, I had completely missed the fact that you can book some of these routes online without the need to submit a booking request. The flights to Europe do not have...
Impressive: Air Canada Aeroplan’s solution for cancelled Etihad bookings
Earlier this year, we reported on amazing award space to fly in Etihad apartments between London and Abu Dhabi. In some cases, all nine seats in the Etihad first class cabin were bookable as...
Air France / KLM Flying Blue lowers business class award cost from the US
Air France / KLM Flying Blue long ago ditched its award chart in favor of dynamic pricing. Still, business class awards between the US and Europe fairly reliably started at 55,000 miles one-way from...
Another crack at the LifeMiles secret code turns up more pricing anomalies
If I could only have access to a single award program, Avianca LifeMiles would probably be it. While far from perfect, Avianca LifeMiles presents ample opportunities for excellent value on the largest airline alliance...
A return to the SLH Grand Hotel Victoria, a dream within a dream
Last year, in my initial review of the Grand Hotel Victoria Concept & Spa, I wrote the following letter to my long-time location love, Hawaii:
Dear Hawaii: Our love affair has been passionate and heartfelt...
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...
