Alaska Airlines is making changes to partner awards (Cathay and LATAM now bookable online)
Update 11/3/22 - ¡Olé! It is now possible to book both LATAM and Cathay Pacific (CX) awards on Alaska Airlines' website. Searches over the last month seem to show better Cathay availability on both...
(EXPIRED) Flying Blue Promo Rewards For November: 25% Off Economy & Business Class Awards...
The latest round of Flying Blue Promo Rewards is out and the list includes many US cities you can fly to/from Europe for 25% off award flights. As has been the case in recent...
Delta Air Lines: Looks like yet another SkyMiles devaluation
Delta SkyPesos may have hit yet another low.
It seems that Delta has raised the prices on partner awards to approximately the same, stratospherically-high levels as its own flights. Over the weekend, Thrifty Traveler, reported...
How to use your Chase Ultimate Rewards fortune
Given that at the time of this writing Chase is offering an 80,000 point bonus for their Sapphire Reserve card and all-time-best 90,000 offers for their Ink Business Cash and Ink Business Unlimited cards,...
Avianca LifeMiles sweet spots for award flights
Avianca LifeMiles is one of our favorite airline programs because of unique sweet spots, the ability to manipulate awards to pay fewer miles than the rates listed on the published award chart and the...
Virgin Atlantic: 50% rebate on award bookings…but with oodles of fees
Virgin Atlantic is offering a 50% rebate on award tickets on Virgin Atlantic metal booked from today through November 7th for travel through March 25th, 2023. The rebate requires linking your Virgin Atlantic account to...
Frequent Miler’s next challenge: What should it be?
We recently wrapped up our 3 Cards, 3 Continents challenge where three of us competed to see who could build the most awesome 3-continent trip with the welcome bonuses from 3 cards. That was...
Chase Ultimate Rewards sweet spots
When I ask readers about their favorite award currency, Chase Ultimate Rewards is often a #1 pick. That's true due to an abundance of excellent transfer partners. This post examines easy ways to get good...
Hilton Honors Complete Guide
Hilton Honors is the loyalty program for Hilton hotels & resorts and their many brands worldwide. While Hilton has gotten a bit of a bad rap in the frequent traveler community over the past...
Maximizing (and understanding) United Excursionist Perks
In the 40K to Far Away challenge, I was assigned Chase points. I had a budget of 40,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points and $400 to go as far as possible. The other guys had...
How to move Radisson points to Radisson Americas now
Radisson Hotels -- the international Radisson program that includes properties outside of the Americas -- has made significant changes to its loyalty program. The changes really stink. If you have points in Radisson Hotels international,...
Hilton free weekend nights become anytime nights!
Several Hilton credit cards offer ways to earn uncapped free weekend night certificates. During the pandemic and for certs issued through the end of this year, Hilton had already changed those certificates to be...
(Update: Working Again) Transfers To Capital One Partners Currently Down
Update 10/7: After two weeks of transfer futility, Capital One's partners are working again as of this afternoon. I didn't try each partner, but was able to successfully complete a transfer to Avianca. Hopefully...
(EXPIRED) Air Tahiti Nui Business Class Wide Open from Seattle!
Air Tahiti Nui has launched a new route between Tahiti and Seattle (two times per week) and awards are wide open! As reported first by JT Genter at Award Wallet, it is often possible...
