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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
(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...
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...
(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...
Is the Southwest Companion Pass still worth it in 2022?
I have for years called the Southwest Airlines Companion Pass the hands-down best deal in domestic travel, but is that still true in 2022?
Getting...
