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...
The cheapest round-the-world awards in economy class
ANA's Round the World award chart has long been revered for its fantastic business class award pricing. As Greg showed during our 3 Cards 3 Continents challenge last year, it doesn't require a lot...
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...
Yes, you can still book United flights for just 7,500 miles through Turkish Miles...
Update: While this sweet spot still exists, the best possible fare that you can now get for United flights is 10,000 miles, not 7,500.
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The Frequent Miler Team’s First Award Redemptions
On our recent Ask Us Anything session, one of the questions asked was:
What was your 1st redemption?
Seeing as we only have an hour to answer as many questions as possible, we try to keep...
Which comes first: the chicken or the egg? Do you book flight or hotel...
Spoiler alert: on this coming weekend's Frequent Miler on the Air, the question of the week is the title question of this post. Readers Frank & Deana wrote in with this question:
Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?...
Finnair to start using Avios in early 2024
18 months ago Qatar Airways announced that they'd be replacing the currency of their loyalty program, changing from Qmiles to Avios. Finnair has now announced that they're doing the same thing as they'll be...
LifeMiles has ended manual bookings by email
Reader Charles reached out today to give us a heads up that LifeMiles has ended manual bookings and other support by email.
To be honest, I'd forgotten that manual LifeMiles bookings existed. I now remember...
I booked QSuites, but could have been smarter about it
I've been planning a trip to Africa with my wife to visit a friend in Cape Town and to stay at the JW Marriott Masai Mara luxury safari lodge in Kenya. When I learned...
Open Qatar business class for 54K points from New York to Doha
Award Wallet reported this morning that Qatar Airways has released a bunch of business class award space on its nonstop from New York (JFK) to Doha beginning on October 30, 2023. Many days have...
Alaska award quirk: Add a segment to reduce the price (YMMV)
Reader Jonathan in our Frequent Miler Insiders group points out a tip that doesn't surprise me but that I hadn't previously thought to search: you can sometimes reduce the price of an Alaska Mileage...
(EXPIRED) Alaska Airlines running award & fare sale for flights through mid-December; book by...
Alaska Airlines has launched a new sale that's valid on both paid and award tickets. Award flights are starting at 4,500 miles one-way, while transcontinental tickets can be had from only $129 (or possibly...
