Aer Lingus Awards Bookable On BA Website, But With Potentially Huge Fees
Some good news and bad news. First, the good news - Aer Lingus award flights are now bookable on BA.com. That could prove to be really useful if you don't want to have to...
Point.me, a Kayak-like tool for flight awards, has launched.
At long last, point.me is here. Regular readers likely remember us writing about award search tool JuicyMiles over the past few years. If, like me, you came to really enjoy that tool, you have...
Marriott Lowest Rate Calendar: Just in time for dynamic pricing
It's the calm before the storm as we all wait for Marriott to drop their award chart and begin dynamic pricing next month. It's one of several changes in the points and miles scene...
(EXPIRED) Air Canada: Excellent availability in business class to Australia for 4+
Starting today (or yesterday Aussie time), fully vaccinated travelers are able to enter Australia without having to quarantine. We recently wrote about excellent availability to Australia in economy across multiple airlines as well as...
Availability alert: Book Alila Ventana Big Sur *Now*
Greg has written about his recent stay at Alila Ventana Big Sur and on this weekend's podcast he talked about how difficult it is to find standard room award availability at this property. In...
Alaska Airlines adds Malaysia Airlines as partner…or is it just a terrible joke?
I've flown Alaska Airlines almost exclusively for domestic travel for several years, consistently impressed by the value to be had in its frequent flyer program. When the airline joined the One World Alliance earlier...
(EXPIRED) Delta Award Sale: To/From Phoenix From As Low As 4,000 SkyMiles Round Trip
Thrifty Traveler Premium has picked up on another unadvertised award sale from Delta, this time offering round trip flights to/from Phoenix for as low as 4,000 SkyMiles round trip.
The Deal
Fly to/from Phoenix from...
Tip: When Emirates says you have insufficient miles, use the app
In this great piece from Milenomics about booking JetBlue Mint with Emirates miles, Robert notes a problem that we had encountered with Emirates last fall: while miles transferred from US credit card transferable currency...
Ventana Big Sur vs. Miraval Arizona
Hyatt offers a few all-inclusive luxury resorts within the continental United States: Alila Ventana Big Sur and three Miraval resorts. Recently I stayed at the Miraval Arizona resort, and then stayed at Alila Ventana...
Turkish now has a checkout button for Star Alliance award tickets (but does it...
Turkish Miles & Smiles has one of the most incredible sweet spots in award travel: it costs just 7,500 miles one-way in economy class for a domestic Star Alliance flight (like anywhere in the...
(EXPIRED) United Saver Awards to Hawai’i starting at 6,900 miles one-way
United Airlines Mileage Plus is offering some incredible deals on economy fares to/from Hawai'i from both the US West and East Coasts. Fares seem to be the best to/from Maui and to/from LAX, but...
(EXPIRED) JetBlue one-day Fare Sale: prices starting at $22/2,000 points
Update 2/11: JetBlue is back again with the same great award prices that we saw on Monday. This is ostensibly "day 5" of their 22nd Anniversary sale, but it looks like most of the...
Re-Wowed: Return to Alila Ventana Big Sur
My wife and I are workationing our way down the California coast in our endeavor to avoid big swaths of Michigan's winter. The journey so far included a 5 night stay at Hyatt's all-inclusive...
(EXPIRED) Cape Town in nonstop business class from 104K round trip for up to...
Thrifty Traveler Premium sent out an alert this morning that immediately made me excited even though I won't be able to take advantage of this one: United has nonstop business class award space from...
