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Book SWISS first class with United miles (within 2-3 days of departure)

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Live and Let's Fly is reporting that for about the last week, SWISS first class awards have been bookable with United MileagePlus miles. This...
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(EXPIRED) American Express: 20% transfer bonus to Hawaiian Airlines

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Amex is offering a 20% transfer bonus from Membership Rewards to Hawaiian Airlines HawaiianMiles through January 21, 2023. There's not much aloha in Hawaiian's...
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Great business & first class availability between Washington and Abu Dhabi on Etihad

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View from the Wing reported last night that there is excellent award availability between Washington, DC and Abu Dhabi in both business class and...
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Alaska “simplifies” award chart, but some awards still feature old pricing

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Alaska Airlines has launched its new unified partner award chart. Unfortunately, they have set it up to easily institute dynamic pricing, which leads me...
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Booking a Turkish Miles & Smiles award for a friend

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I've long found the Turkish Miles & Smiles program to be highly intriguing, ever since the day several years ago when we first broke...
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Book El Al with Alaska miles online, access expanded space

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JT Genter broke the news this week on Award Wallet that it is now possible to book award tickets via the Alaska Airlines website...
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Air France/KLM Flying Blue: Free stopovers on award tickets now live via call center

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Update 12/9: Free stopovers on Flying Blue award tickets are now live(ish). Currently, the only way to book them is via the Flying Blue...
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Phone it in: Booking JetBlue with American Airlines miles

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Recently, I wrote about a nice little win from the American Airlines Loyalty Points games and the American Airlines/JetBlue partnership in my experience with...
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British Airways adds option to use more Avios, less money

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God Save the Points broke the story this morning that British Airways Executive Club today announced a new way to book British Airways award...
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Point.me vs AwardLogic. Which award search tool is best?

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Earlier this week I updated my post about the SeatSpy award search tool.  That tool is great for finding award availability but only for...
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Choice privileges showing price in calendar view

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Choice privileges has made a nice little update to its website: they now show nightly award rates in their calendar view, making it easy...
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Wentworth Mansion Charleston South Carolina (bookable via Hyatt SLH). Bottom line review.

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Wentworth Mansion is an SLH property in Charleston South Carolina. The inn is charming, gorgeous, offers great service, and in my opinion is well...
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The Ritz-Carlton Charlotte: Luxe and welcoming

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Last Friday evening, my wife and I flew into Charlotte where we needed a one night stay.  Our plan was to pick up our...
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Alaska Airlines is making changes to partner awards (Cathay and LATAM now bookable online)

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Update 11/3/22 - ¡Olé! It is now possible to book both LATAM and Cathay Pacific (CX) awards on Alaska Airlines' website. Searches over the...

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