United’s Excursionist Perk: Ideal for Positioning Flights?
Nick's recent post "Taking an Excursionist Perk for a spin for a trip to Africa" showed ways to use United's Excursionist Perk to save...
Booking Southwest Airlines flights via Chase Travel℠ should be a great deal, but isn’t
I was initially excited, but soon became pretty disappointed -- booking Southwest Airlines flights via Chase Travel℠ just isn't as good as I'd hoped...
Taking an Excursionist Perk for a spin for a trip to Africa
In a post last week, I wrote about plans for a trip next year leveraging Air Canada Aeroplan that will have us stop in...
Book Qatar flights with JetBlue TrueBlue points
As reported by Award Wallet, you can now book at least some Qatar Airways flights with JetBlue TrueBlue points. This launches on the heels...
Plentiful Singapore Airlines business class award space New York-Frankfurt (60K via Aeroplan) over next...
Yesterday, I highlighted plentiful business class award space to Europe in summer 2024. Today, View from the Wing highlights an alert from The Points...
Another trip down the Air Canada Aeroplan rabbit hole
It all started when MSC cancelled my free cruise.
My wife and I, having participated ourselves in the casino cruise matching shenanigans about which I've...
Uh-oh: Did Qatar create a new JetBlue award chart?
The other day, we reported on the ability to book JetBlue flights with Qatar Avios and later updated the post to note fantastic availability...
Book JetBlue (including Mint) award tickets with Qatar Avios
Update: When we posted this, I had completely missed the fact that you can book some of these routes online without the need to...
Impressive: Air Canada Aeroplan’s solution for cancelled Etihad bookings
Earlier this year, we reported on amazing award space to fly in Etihad apartments between London and Abu Dhabi. In some cases, all nine...
Air France / KLM Flying Blue lowers business class award cost from the US
Air France / KLM Flying Blue long ago ditched its award chart in favor of dynamic pricing. Still, business class awards between the US...
Another crack at the LifeMiles secret code turns up more pricing anomalies
If I could only have access to a single award program, Avianca LifeMiles would probably be it. While far from perfect, Avianca LifeMiles presents...
A return to the SLH Grand Hotel Victoria, a dream within a dream
Last year, in my initial review of the Grand Hotel Victoria Concept & Spa, I wrote the following letter to my long-time location love,...
JW Marriott Masai Mara: Wide open Summer 2024 availability
The JW Marriott Masai Mara Lodge is showing wide open award availability in Summer 2024, including most days in June, July, and August 2024...
How to cancel Virgin Atlantic partner awards online
Over the summer I had used my Virgin Atlantic points to book a Delta flight from Detroit to DC. Delta would have charged 16,000...
