Wyndham Vacasa: Great Value is Real!
The ability to book Vacasa Vacation Rentals with Wyndham points is one of the best deals in points & miles. If you're at all interested in booking vacation rentals, it's essential to learn about...
Air Canada Aeroplan Complete Guide
Air Canada Aeroplan is a highly unique frequent flyer program in many regards: they have more airline partners than any program in the world and they offer the ability to use your Aeroplan points...
Seats.aero: a wonderfully nerdy tool for finding Unicorn flight awards
Seats.aero is a mostly free tool which makes it easy to find close-in awards on long-haul flights. I learned about this tool only a few weeks ago, and was immediately captivated by it. This...
Best uses for Delta miles
This post has been updated to include business class award deals where neither the start nor destination is within the U.S. or Canada. Plus, I've added the new ability to get a 15% discount...
StayWithPoints: Find hard-to-get hotel awards
While I love Hyatt's loyalty program, it's frustrating that they don't offer an award availability calendar. Hyatt does offer a point price calendar, but it doesn't show whether award nights are actually available. This...
(EXPIRED) Wide open Japan Airlines business class space (not all phantom)
Japan Airlines business class award space has been playing games with our hearts over the past few days, at times appearing wide open and then failing to ticket. However, we had a report from...
Best ways to get to Asia using miles for business or first class (in...
If you find yourself daydreaming about the snow monkeys in Japan, the hawker centers of Singapore, the ancient history that abounds around Asia, or just a really long flight in a comfortable seat with...
Delta SkyMiles: Business class deals aren’t dead. Here’s how to find them.
It's been a long time since Delta's international business class award prices competed favorably with competitors like AA or United, but until a few years ago it was possible to find awards that were...
Bilt adds free Point.me integration for award searches with partners!
The latest version of the Bilt Rewards app has dropped with a major enhancement: you can now search for award availability on Bilt's transfer partners via an integration with Point.me in the latest version...
PSA: Check your ANA First Class bookings via Virgin Atlantic for spelling errors
If you listened to this morning's podcast and read the headline above, you already know what this post is going to be about. However, given a few similar data points from readers, I thought...
[BACK FOR JUL-OCT!] ANA First Class wide open, up to 5 seats in The...
Update 1/27/23: IT'S BACK! ANA once again has incredible first class award space between San Francisco and Tokyo. Once again we are seeing many dates with 2-4 seats available and some dates with five seats in business...
4+ business class award seats on Singapore Airlines to/from Frankfurt in November / December
View from the Wing reported earlier today on wide open business class availability on Singapore Airlines. Gary reports winter dates with as many as nine seats available in business class on the New York to/from...
35K Business Class to Europe for a family: New York to Lisbon
While working on writing up a different post this afternoon, I stumbled on a bunch of award space on TAP Air Portugal to Europe this fall. I'm seeing both the Newark to Lisbon route...
Why the focus on business and first class redemptions? (on Nick’s mind)
I very distinctly remember sitting in a packed room at my first Frequent Traveler University and hearing Ben Schlappig of One Mile at a Time ask by a show of hands how many people...
