(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
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
StayWithPoints seemed very promising when this post was first written, but they don’t seem to have improved it much over time. Most hotels I’ve looked up are only available for alerts, if...
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...
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...
