Tag: Best Uses
Best uses for Virgin Points across Virgin Atlantic & Virgin Red (Sweet Spot Spotlight)
Virgin points are super easy to accumulate. Points transfer 1 to 1 from most major transferable points programs. Even better, transfer bonuses are common...
Best uses for Delta miles
This post has been updated to include business class award deals where neither the start nor destination is within the U.S. or Canada. Plus,...
Avianca LifeMiles sweet spots for award flights
Avianca LifeMiles is one of my favorite airline programs because of unique sweet spots, the ability to "hack" awards to pay fewer miles than...
Chase Ultimate Rewards sweet spots
When I ask readers about their favorite award currency, Chase Ultimate Rewards is often a #1 pick. That's true due to an abundance of...
Air France / KLM Flying Blue sweet spots for award travel
Flying Blue sweet spots have been more difficult to define than those in other programs ever since Air France and KLM ditched the Flying...
Capital One Miles Sweet Spots
Capital One really shook things up in the rewards card space when they increased the transfer ratio to 1:1 on almost all of their airline...
Nordic Choice Sweet-Spots: Great Value w/ Choice Points
I've long heard that redeeming Choice Privileges points at Nordic Choice Hotels offered great value, but I've never previously looked very closely at this. ...
The Best Points-Bookable Hotels in the World
Travel & Leisure recently published The Top 100 Hotels in the World for 2021. It's fun to peruse the list and dream about visiting some...
Amex Membership Rewards sweet spots
Update 7/6/21: With the huge new Membership Rewards points offer available, some readers will find themselves wondering how best to use Membership Rewards points,...
New IHG Sweet Spot: Dynamic Pricing + 4th Night Free For Huge Savings
Update 4/18/21: Seeing as IHG has been playing games with dynamic pricing recently (see this post and this subsequent update), I thought it'd be...
Qantas Sweet Spots for award tickets (economy and business class)
Qantas sweet spots are governed by the distance from the start point of your trip to the end point. While Qantas has a distance-based...
Avios Sweet Spots for Award Tickets (British Airways & Iberia)
Avios sweet spots depend entirely on the length and number of segments in your itinerary. Generally speaking, the best British Airways Avios sweet spots...
Etihad Guest Sweet Spots for award tickets in business class or economy
Etihad Guest sweet spots are among some of the most interesting values with some of the cheapest partner award pricing (in very specific situations)...
Searching for Emirates sweet spots with partner airline awards [JAL, Copa, and Qantas awards...
UPDATE 3/2/2021: Emirates has completed their partner devaluations. Now all partner awards follow the same not-great distance based award chart. I no longer know...
