Booking Flights with American Express Membership Rewards
American Express Rewards is one of the best reward programs out there. The flexibility and variety of rewards available is out of this world. I…
Award Travel
How I scored four Business Class Award tickets from US to India
As I posted a short while ago, I was able to book four Business Class award tickets to India for my family and I. This…
Expert tip 7: When booking award travel, consider booking one-way trips
Several airlines allow booking one-way award trips. If they do, always search for your award trip as both a round trip or as two one-way…
Merger update: Significant United changes
United and Continental have finally merged. As I pointed out in an earlier post, united.com and continental.com, the websites also merged over to the new…
Expert Tip #2 – Focus on one airline
Focus all your Airline Mile earnings – from all sources (flying, credit card, surveys, etc.) – on one airline or no more than one airline…
The Economics of Airline Miles – Part V
The Economics of Airline Miles: Part V – Is it all really worth it? The ‘Economics of Airline Miles’ started off as a single article…
Starting a New Year of earning Miles and Status
Here we go again – Starting a New Year of earning Miles and Status: If you are like me, you logged in to your primary…
10 MORE reasons why SPG is the best Loyalty Program
In continuation to my ever popular post on 10 Reasons why Starwood is the Best Loyalty Program, here are 10 more reasons: Ability to book…
The cost of Redeeming Miles
Why do I have to pay for my ‘Free’ Award Ticket? One unique feature about the Free awards airlines give is that they are not…
The Economics of Airline Miles – Part IV
In the first three parts of this series on the Economics of Airline Miles I discussed: The Value of Airline Miles (Part I), The Value…
