Phantom space, mixed cabin awards, and delayed transfers: Award travel frustrations
Award travel can be awesome when it works out well. And if you're flexible and you learn the game, it can and does work...
American Airlines blocking close-in domestic award availability to partners
Dan's Deals has discovered something that could be a glitch...or an unwelcome change. It seems that American Airlines has begun blocking close-in, non-stop domestic...
World of Hyatt Complete Guide (2026)
World of Hyatt has been our favorite hotel loyalty program for years. Points are easy to earn, largely through Hyatt's partnerships with Chase and Bilt, and you can...
Emirates raises premium cabin award prices by 15%, but adds one-way saver pricing
A couple of days ago, Emirates Skywards posted a notice on its mileage calculator stating that changes to reward redemption rates for Classic Rewards and...
What is dynamic pricing? An explanation and its positives & negatives
Over the past 5-10 years, we've seen an increasing number of airline and hotel loyalty programs move to a dynamic pricing model for award...
Emirates to change reward redemption rates on May 21, 2026
A couple of days ago, Emirates Skywards put a notice on its mileage calculator noting that changes would be coming to reward redemption rates...
(EXPIRED) 30% off select Turkish Miles & Smiles economy class award tickets
Turkish Miles & Smiles is offering a 30% miles discount on select economy class routes between Türkiye and the U.S. and Mexico. You'll need...
(EXPIRED) SAS award sale: Save 25% on all award flights (48K business class between...
A few times each year, SAS seems to offer a discount when booking award flights using EuroBonus miles. They've returned with another award sale,...
Points Path: An easy “set and forget” award search tool
Points Path is a browser plug-in that automatically integrates with Google Flights. When you run a Google Flights search, Points Path automatically inserts point...
Best ways to get to Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific using miles...
Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific are bucket-list destinations for many travelers, in no small part due to the travel time and the...
A secret Rove superpower: Air India Maharaja Club for shorter Star Alliance awards
Rove Miles has really been on the rise lately, with the addition of new partners over the last couple of months and some solid...
Hyatt Points Advance: The elite perk you didn’t know about (Lock in current award...
Update: We had previously published this post titled in a way that suggested this perk was only available for Globalist members, though within the...
United MileagePlus Complete Guide (2026)
The United MileagePlus program has changed significantly in the last year, including doing away with the valuable excursionist perk and drastically altering how holding a United...
JetBlue adds partnership with China Airlines (redeem points)
Late last week, JetBlue True Blue added a new foreign airline partner: China Airlines. You can redeem TrueBlue points on the JetBlue website or...
