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...
Cancelling a LifeMiles award ticket: maybe less painful than you thought
Yesterday, I cancelled an Avianca LifeMiles award ticket. It was as expensive as I expected ($200 per passenger), but in the process I learned a few interesting things:
It isn't as hard as I...
Air New Zealand business class awards wide open close-in
Historically, Air New Zealand has been very stingy with business class award space. That seems to have changed... a bit. Currently, we're seeing a large amount of business class award space from North America...
Aer Lingus: 4+ Business class seats available from East Coast to Ireland Spring/Summer 2024
Aer Lingus has opened up a ton of business class award availability between Dublin, Ireland and Philadelphia (PHL). There are 4+ business class seats available to Dublin from PHL almost every day of March,...
A Wyndham (yep, Wyndham) luxury resort in Greece
Ajul Luxury Hotel & Spa Resort is a Wyndham Registry Collection Hotel in Greece on the Aegean Sea. It looks like this hotel opened June 1st, 2023 (or at least, that's the date on...
Alaska Airlines fumbles launch of Starlux awards
Starlux is a Taiwan-based airline that was founded in 2018 and began operations in 2020, a tricky time to start a new travel company, to say the least. Despite the poor timing, it has...
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...
