ANA Surcharges Reduced To $1 Per Leg, Potentially Saving Hundreds
ANA has made a great improvement when booking award flights as they're now charging only $1 per leg on many routes.
On many ANA-flown routes, if you book a round trip flight, the surcharge will...
[UPDATE: AA bug shows phantom award space] Japan Airlines First Class Wide Open for...
UPDATE: We're not seeing the same award space through other partners, and AA is unable to book the first class awards that it is showing. This seems to be an AA bug.
Original post follows
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Best Kimpton Hotels in the United States and Canada
Kimpton is a well loved chain of boutique hotels, most of which are in the United States. A few years ago, IHG bought Kimpton. That made it possible to use IHG points and free...
Best ways to get to Africa using miles (economy class edition)
The best ways to Africa in economy class are among the cheapest long-haul economy awards to any region in the world. As the second-largest continent in the world by land area, the region is...
269,000 ANA miles expire in about 9 months. What to do?
I have 269,000 ANA miles that are set to expire in March and there's no practical way to extend their lifespan. Here's how I got to this situation and my best options for using...
Aeroplan / Etihad first class sweet spot: US to Australia & how to do...
Yesterday, Greg covered the news about the Etihad and Aeroplan partnership. In that post, Greg noted some of the potentially interesting opportunities with Aeroplan miles. One of the exciting things about this partnership is...
Etihad Partners with Air Canada. Opportunities Abound.
Air Canada and Etihad have announced a partnership which is live as of today. You can now earn and redeem miles in either direction. For example, you can earn Air Canada Aeroplan miles when...
Best Marriott Resorts in Florida
Following my post "Best Hyatt resorts for winter and spring break in the continental United States" I intended to do the same for Marriott. But then I started looking through their resort list and...
The new true (temporary) value of Southwest points, diminished by COVID-19 and CARES
A couple of years ago, Greg wrote a post called The new true value of Southwest points. How to get up to 1.9 cents per point in value. I was re-examining that post in...
(Updated) American’s poor “waived award redeposit” policy
Note: We've received a number of success reports of recent cancellations with waived fees despite the way the terms are written and quoted below. It looks like American is indeed waiving redeposit fees for those...
(EXPIRED) SeatSpy founders deals ending soon
A few months ago, Greg wrote a post on a really interesting and promising tool called SeatSpy, which instantly shows a year of award availability at a time (See: SeatSpy: An awesome tool for...
(EXPIRED) Europe 2021: United business class awards wide open (book for 45K w/ Turkish)
I just got an email alert from Thrifty Traveler Premium alerting me to tons of United business class saver award space on many routes from the US to/from Europe through the end of the schedule...
Get to Europe using airline miles: Economy class edition
How do you get to Europe using airline miles in economy class? This post has the best sweet spots from airline programs that are partnered up with the major transferable currencies. We've recently completed...
Best Hyatt resorts for winter and spring break in the continental United States
What are the best Hyatt resorts for winter or spring break travel? Given the current Coronavirus situation, it's unclear when international travel will be something we'll once again do. Even if we believe it's...
