Book a Safari with Points: JW Marriott Masai Mara Lodge [Cancelled awards not returning...
Update 10/2/23: JW Marriott Masai Mara continues to have a decent amount of award availability in the spring of 2024. However, prices are higher than what we saw earlier this year with rates ranging...
Etihad apartments: Wide open between London and Abu Dhabi
Etihad has released a ton of business and first class award space between London and Abu Dhabi, including first class apartments aboard its A380. This is just a look at one month of nonstop...
A great trick for finding Delta partner award availability
Separately, we wrote about Virgin Atlantic's fantastic award availability calendar. While the tool is currently only intended to be used to find Delta or Virgin Atlantic award availability to or from England, it turns...
Having trouble with an airline website? Try the app.
File this under "general tips and advice", but this came up for me over the weekend and even though I knew of this solution to my problem, it didn't come to mind until a...
Air Canada Aeroplan: Reduce award price by switching from a flexible reward
A few commenters have mentioned this in the past, but I just now had a chance to try this out. With Air Canada Aeroplan award bookings, it's possible to book higher priced flexible awards...
JetBlue’s bad math: awards to Canada are cheaper than they appear
JetBlue began flying to Vancouver, Canada last year. Unless something changed very recently, I'm going to guess that they sell fewer award tickets on their two Vancouver routes (from New York-JFK and Boston's Logan...
ITA Airways bookable with Virgin Atlantic miles
ITA Airways is the national airline of Italy -- the successor to Alitalia. ITA has been a member of SkyTeam for quite some time, but until recently (perhaps just the past day or two),...
Point.me now offering 3 free trial searches for new users
We've written a number of times about Point.me, an online award booking tool that can help you find flight award availability, as well as providing additional services like full-service award booking for you.
Point.me is...
An Air Canada advantage: far more award space with some partners
Over the weekend, I booked an award ticket via Air Canada Aeroplan that reminded me that I've been wanting to publish a post about the expanded award availability you can find via Air Canada....
Business class to London for less with this Asia Miles trick
Flying business class to London can be very expensive, even when using miles. The reason is that the two airlines that tend to have the most award availability to London (British Airways and Virgin...
55K business class to Vietnam on some dates with Flying Blue (plus ~$400 in...
A reader wrote in on Instagram a couple of weeks ago with a hot tip that I just got a second to explore: Flying Blue has great pricing on select dates between select East...
The cost for a family of travel hackers to go to Europe for 2.5...
I'm currently typing this post aboard a cruise ship in Europe, floating somewhere between Lisbon, Portugal and Alicante, Spain. We've been in Europe since June 26th and still have more than half a week...
My favorite luxury flight experiences (all booked with miles)
The entire Frequent Miler team recently flew together on ANA's new first class called "The Suite." The five of us had the entire first class cabin to ourselves. It was undoubtedly the most fun...
Why AAdvantage is my new favorite mileage program
In December 2021, American Airlines ran an incredible promotion with SimplyMiles where you could earn 240 miles per dollar donating to Conservation International. That was equivalent to buying AAdvantage miles for less than half...
