Feeling restless? If you're anything like me, you miss the challenge and excitement of planning travel. Deciding upon an ideal destination excites the imagination. Finding ideal discounted flights or award flights that get you...
In response to this morning's post about ANA Sweet spots, a reader commented to ask if I could confirm that what ANA charges to add a lap infant to a reservation. My past experienced...
Last night, Stephen published a post about how ANA has reduced surcharges on many of its own flights to just $1 per leg each way. Spencer Howard from Straight to the Points had invited...
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: 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.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...