Current point transfer bonuses
The best points rewards programs, in my opinion, are those that allow points to be transferred to many different airline and hotel loyalty programs. In this way, it is often possible to get outsized...
Best uses for Turkish Miles & Smiles miles (2024)
Turkish Miles & Smiles is a 1:1 transfer partner from Capital One Miles, Citi ThankYou points, and Bilt Rewards, meaning that it is easy to put together the miles for a Turkish Airlines award...
Which award search tool is best?
This post has been largely re-written since last publication. I've added new tools, separated free tools from paid tools, and changed how I summarize each tool's loyalty program coverage. For the latter, rather than...
New Alaska Award Charts Are Going Live…Slowly
Update 3/11/24: Alaska's new award charts are starting to go live today and will be completely implemented by 3/31/24. This week, new award pricing between the United States and Africa/Europe will begin, with the...
Best Hyatt Category 4 Hotels & Resorts [Book soon!]
In this post you'll find a list of recommended hotels for using your category 1-4 certs. Most of these recommendations come directly from readers. Thank you, everyone who has contributed! And, please comment below...
How to book Vacasa Vacation Rentals with Wyndham points
Booking Vacasa Vacation Rentals can be an excellent use for Wyndham points. For those interested in booking vacation rentals, this post has everything you need to know...
Intro to booking Vacasa rentals with Wyndham points
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Turkish offers an award sale that’s very….”Turkish Miles & Smiles” of them
Turkish Airlines Miles & Smiles is currently offering a sale on award tickets. When I read the details of this sale, all I could hear in my head was the opening line of Ricky...
The ANA Devaluation: It’s not all doom and gloom
ANA Mileage Club has long been a theoretically incredible Amex Membership Rewards transfer partner. In practice, it isn't always as easy to leverage at it sounds in theory, but the ANA award charts have...
AwardTool: a powerful new award search tool (British Airways added)
AwardTool is a powerful new flight award search tool with both a free and paid (Pro) version. This tool is very similar to PointsYeah. Both offer powerful search features for free; both allow searching...
Frequent Miler’s favorite business class flights
Of the many luxuries afforded by learning to leverage airline miles, the most enjoyable might be flying in a seat that converts to a fully flat bed in the sky. In some cases, you'll...
Award ticket change and cancellation fees by transfer partner
Award ticket change and cancellation fees vary wildly from one airline program to another. One of my favorite things about booking award tickets with foreign programs is that many of them have more reasonable...
Starlux Business Class awards available to Taiwan for 75K each way
Update 2/23: As of this morning, this is effectively sold out. I was only able to find two days at 75K for the rest of the year.
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There's not a plethora of options for flying business...
Pointsyeah: Free flight award searches and alerts (now possible to search for child award...
Pointsyeah may just be a game changer... Like some other tools, it offers a Kayak-like interface for finding award flights. And, like point.me and roame, it allows searching for business and first class in...
Points Path: An easy “set and forget” award search tool
Points Path is a free browser plug-in which automatically integrates with Google Flights. When you run a Google Flights search, Points Path automatically inserts point prices into the results next to cash rates and...
