Emirates Slashes Award Fees – Now Worth A Second Look
Emirates has slashed the taxes and fees charged on award bookings by ~90%. In the past, their $1,000+ fees on award flights killed any semblance of a deal using Skywards miles, but these changes...
Hilton’s funny math: save points by extending a stay
I'm about the closest thing you'll find to a Hilton fanboy in the blogosphere, but Hilton's award pricing vexes and perplexes me at times. I've previously showed that their program is reasonably rewarding (Greg's take was a...
(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...
United one-time lounge passes extended for 3 months
This morning in response to our updated COVID-19 cancellation and elite status policies post, a reader asked if we had heard any news about United one-time club lounge passes. Whereas United had announced extensions...
Choice Privileges bumping status up +1 for 2020 (extend w/ 5 nights)
In this morning's newly updated guide to COVID-19 cancellation policies, we added the various elite status extensions and 2020 shortcuts added for each program. In updating the section on Choice Privileges, I noticed something...
Spending airline fee credits during COVID lockdowns
In my post "COVID Credit Card Enhancements Ultimate Guide," I detailed all of the enhancements credit card issuers have made to their travel cards to persuade customers to keep those cards rather than cancel...
Air Canada To Let You Cancel Tickets & Convert To Non-Expiring Vouchers Or Miles
Air Canada has announced what appears to be a fairly generous policy. From June 15, 2020, you'll be able to cancel your flight up to two hours before it's due to depart and take...
(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...
Upside: Save Money At Thousands Of Gas Stations Nationwide
Update: 6/15/22: A few months ago GetUpside changed its name to Upside.
Update 5/20/20: Upside has changed its referral program, although it's not clear if this is a temporary change or permanent.
In the past you...
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...
(EXPIRED) Free night at the Venetian for workers from many “essential” industries through end...
The Venetian in Las Vegas is offering a complimentary night to many different types of essential workers (not just health care) through the end of 2020, including a waived resort fee for that night....
Hotels.com offering 15% bonus when taking credit instead of cash refund (at least in...
Doctor of Credit reports a data point from reddit that Hotels.com is offering at least some customers the option to get a 15% bonus when choosing to receive a Hotels.com credit in lieu of...
