Alaska joined oneworld: No news on awards is good news, expanded partnership with AA...
Alaska joined oneworld yesterday. They had a virtual press conference complete with executives doing the (air) safety dance to announce the completion of that process, though ultimately we didn't learn much beyond simple stuff...
Delta Elite status via award tickets, plus 50% to 75% elite bonus on all...
Delta is out with a truly innovative promotion named "2022 Medallion® Status Accelerators." Starting April 1 and throughout the rest of 2021, Delta fliers will earn 50% to 75% more towards elite status. That's...
Wyndham Vacasa: Great Value is Real!
Wyndham Rewards points recently became far more valuable. For real this time. I previously wrote about the possibility of getting great value using Wyndham points to book vacation rentals. After a frustrating exploration, I was...
Asiana merger with Korean delayed, frequent flyer program to stick around until 2024
One Mile at a Time reports on an interesting development in the Asiana / Korean merger previously announced a few months ago: Korean expects to acquire Asiana by 2022 and integrate frequent flyer programs...
Delta SkyMiles Complete Guide
Delta SkyMiles Overview
While Delta is often lauded for their flight performance and customer service, their loyalty program has long been the butt of jokes in the frequent flier community. Delta's redeemable miles, SkyMiles, are...
My Round the World business class adventure (exploring hacks, and testing limits)
Planning for my Round the World adventure continues! In a previous post, I explained that I have 269,000 ANA miles that will expire in September if I don't use them. Rather than let the...
(EXPIRED) Buy Air Canada Aeroplan points for only 1.2 cents each!
I don't usually get excited about point sales, but I think this one is pretty good. Air Canada is offering up to a 100% bonus on purchased points through April 2nd. This makes it...
(EXPIRED) 25% Transfer Bonus: Citi ThankYou Rewards to Air France Flying Blue
Citi is offering a 25% transfer bonus from ThankYou Rewards to Air France Flying Blue miles through April 16, 2021. As with almost any transfer bonus, I don't recommend transferring unless you have an...
British Airways devalues shortest awards (increase of 750 Avios on BA-operated flights)
Head for Points reports a devaluation on the shortest British Airways Avios award flight bands for flights on British Airways, with an increase of 750 Avios necessary for each of the 3 shortest bands...
(EXPIRED) Delta Comfort+: Atlanta to Panama City from 10K round trip
A reader in our Frequent Miler Insiders group points out that Delta currently has excellent pricing available for Comfort+ on round trip itineraries from Atlanta to Panama City, Panama -- with mid-week prices from 10K SkyMiles...
Wyndham Vacasa: Incredible value possible, good value likely, frustration guaranteed
Wyndham Rewards points recently became far more valuable. Maybe. New developments initially made me extremely bullish on acquiring Wyndham points, but my investigation led to frustration. Here's the story...
In 2019, Vacasa (a vacation rental...
Best ways to get to Europe with miles or money
Updates: This post has been updated to reflect award chart changes (notably Aeroplan no longer passing on fuel surcharges and changes to its award chart), transfer partner changes (adding Brex Cash as a transfer...
Best uses for Delta miles
This post has been updated to include several reader tips (Mexico to Europe business class for 65K, business class within Asia for 35K, etc.). Given that Delta credit card offers are currently at a...
Tips for booking ANA’s Round the World award
One of the best deals in travel is ANA's Star Alliance Round the World award. We previously covered this award here: Around the world in business class for 115K . More recently, I wrote...
