Tag: Best Uses
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...
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...
Citi ThankYou points sweet spots for high value redemptions
While ThankYou points came out less valuable than Chase or Amex points when we last updated our Reasonable Redemption Values (See: A big change...
Lap infant award tickets for less: New Aeroplan fee is $25 CAD or 2500...
Lap infant award ticket prices vary widely between programs, but Air Canada's Aeroplan is going from being one of the best options for lap infant...
Park Hyatt Zanzibar Royal Residence for 30K points per night
Following my post "Most exciting Hyatt premium suites bookable with points in the US," I've been researching the most exciting bookable-with-points premium suites outside...
EVA Infinity MileageLands sweet spot: stopover itineraries to South America or within Asia
EVA Infinity MileageLands is both a Citi ThankYou transfer partner and Capital One transfer partner that doesn't get much attention. While EVA Air's business...
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...
Searching for Emirates sweet spots with non-flight awards
Even if you've never flown Emirates, chances are good that you have easy access to Emirates Skywards miles. You have access to these miles...
Around the world in business class for 115K [Sweet spot spotlight]
Flights crossing either the Atlantic or Pacific ocean usually cost in the neighborhood of 60K miles one-way in business class with most award programs....
[Update: Price increase 7/30] Luxury in Budapest starting at 8K per night, and suites...
Update 7/17/19: Today World of Hyatt has announced that this property will move up to Category 5 at 10:00am CT on July 30, 2019. That...
7.5K miles each way to Hawaii: Turkish Miles & Smiles sweet spot
Our #40Kfaraway challenge has led me to more closely study the award charts of all of the Citi Transfer Partners. I recently stumbled on...
Fly around Japan for 5K each way, and add a free Excursion [Sweet-spot spotlight]
Nick previously published a similar post: Fly around Japan for 4.5K each way with British Airways Avios . But then the BA devaluation happened...
Finding extreme luxury in Hyatt Premium Suites
How would you like to book a 3,294 square-foot Presidential Suite for 16,000 points per night? How about a two bedroom, 3 bath Diplomat...
