New Flying Blue Promo Awards for fall travel
Air France / KLM Flying Blue has recently released their new "promo awards" for the month of July. To take advantage of the special pricing on these awards, you would need to book by...
United creeps towards revenue-based awards
United announced today that they are making a long-expected yet still disappointing move in the direction of loosely revenue-based award pricing for some awards and are raising the prices of other awards (both on...
Should you Fly Now Earn Later? A caution and advice.
Amex has quietly rolled out a new benefit to many Delta cardmembers: "Fly Now. Earn Later." This new benefit lets you borrow Delta miles. To find the benefit, log into your Amex account, select...
$400 British Airways discount with AARP
For a limited time, British Airways has brought back the full $400 discount on paid business and first class travel for AARP members. This stacks with the 10% discount for Chase cardholders with promo...
How to avoid United Basic Economy
Avoid United Basic Economy
In the time since I published "How to avoid basic economy when paying with points," United rolled out their Basic Economy product to virtually all domestic routes. And, it turns out...
Flights to Europe from $90 one-way
WOW Airlines is out with a great sale on flights from various cities in the US to Europe with prices from $89.99 one-way from many cities for summer travel in July/August. Return flights are always...
How to book Delta One Suite saver awards
A few days ago I booked three Delta One Suites on Delta's new A350 aircraft to fly nonstop from Tokyo to Detroit. Each ticket cost 80,000 SkyMiles plus about $40 in fees (¥4460 JPY). ...
Free Virgin Mobile + Virgin Atlantic / Alaska discounts: Deal or no deal?
On the heels of Sprint's recent (and still valid until 6/30) promotion for one year of FREE Sprint cell phone service, Virgin Mobile announced a few days ago that they are also offering nearly...
Update: Delta Europe deal dying, but bookable through some OTAs
Late last night we published a huge Delta airfare sale to Europe from both hubs and smaller markets around the country. This morning, that sale is dying. Google Flights is still showing low prices, but they...
Huge Delta sale to Europe, summer travel
Update: This fare sale is dying. However, some of these are still bookable via small OTAs at Momondo.com as of 10:41am Eastern time. See our update here.
We have stumbled on a huge airfare sale from...
Delta first class: great companion ticket deal (glitch?)
I stumbled upon something surprising the other day. Thanks to my Delta Reserve companion ticket, I was able to book two people into domestic first class for less than the price of a single...
Mileage Run? $308 RT to Hong Kong AND China on United
There are some hot open-jaw airfares available from Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles to both Hong Kong and Shanghai or Beijing and back to North America. Secret Flying is reporting prices from $333,...
Airfare Deal: Boston to Spain from low $300’s RT
Loyalty Lobby reports a nice airfare deal on Delta/KLM/Air France of just $398 round trip between Boston and Valencia, Spain. That's a great fare to fly into Valencia. More details including fare construction, rules, and...
Booking a luxury trip with points and deals
My son has just completed high school and will be attending the University of Michigan in the fall to study computer science. Early in his junior year his guidance counselor told him that he...
