Have you ever arrived at an event – say a theme park – right when it opened and felt like other people had been there long before you? Disney does this at their parks. People staying at their hotels get in early. And they sell tickets to events before the park opens/after it closes, effectively […]
Unlocking Award Availability with Bank Point Transfers to International Frequent Flyer Programs
Most people realize that you can use US frequent flyer miles (United, American, Delta) for award travel on Star Alliance, OneWorld, and SkyTeam partners. The hard part about this is finding partner award availability. Today, I’d like to talk about transferring bank points to international frequent flyer programs. Many international airlines release award space far […]
Making EU261 Work for You
This is a guest post from a lifelong friend we visited last summer in Germany. Thanks to him for sharing his thoughts on this. -Robert Our story has two parts, each of which caused us to suffer a 24 hour delay returning home on a British Airways flight from Phoenix to Munich. We are currently […]
Dog Catches Car: The AA Etihad Apartment Trick Worked But I Let It Go
I was saying a couple of weeks ago how I did some research on booking Etihad Apartments with AA miles and found that I was unable to do so. See: What I Learned: Booking An Award For Travel On Etihad But after some more exploring, along with guidance from experts, I found that I was able […]
This Week in Bank Points: Booking El Al Business Class Flights
I recently spent some time learning about El Al’s award scheme while helping a family member book roundtrip flights in Business Class. I thought I’d summarize my findings here in case you find yourself interested in visiting Israel and booking El Al Business Class with points. Want: Boston to Tel Aviv round-trip in Business Class […]
What I Learned: Booking an award for travel on Etihad
I ended up going down quite a rabbit hole recently while trying to figure out the best way of booking an award for travel on Etihad – using their miles or that of a partner airline like AA. I was exploring options from Boston -or- New York to Southeast Asia and ultimately decided on Phuket, Thailand […]
You Can Now Earn Airline Miles for Shopping at GiftCards.com
Online purveyor of gift cards GiftCards.com is now appearing in airline shopping portals. Judging from Cashback Monitor‘s handy rate history functionality, this appears to be a new development. Best Options for GiftCards.com Cashback Of late cashback portals rates have hovered in the 1-1.25% range. A couple of portals not listed on Cashback Monitor still pay […]
A Sign of Hope for Saver Level AA Award Space?
I was doing some award searches for our February 2019 school break and found a surprising amount of Saver Level award availability for four people from Boston-LAX in First Class: If I narrow the search to include just non-stops there was still pretty good availability for four. So I booked the morning outbound for 100,000 […]
[Targeted] Amex Delta Credit Card Offers without Lifetime Language
Targeted Amex Delta offers are being sent out via email: Gold: $95 fee waived the first year, 60,000 + $50 Delta statement credit Platinum: $195 fee not waived the first year, 50,000 miles + 10,000 MQMs + $100 Delta statement credit Reserve: $450 annual fee not waived the first year, 70,000 miles + 10,000 MQMs The same offers are […]
Everything I Wanted to Know About Hawaiian’s New Boston Service
Hawaiian Airlines announced direct service to Boston starting in April 2019. With flights 5 days a week on A330s equipped with 18 lie-flat seats, this will be by far the most comfortable and direct way to get to Hawaii from New England. The 11h 35m flight will be the longest regularly operating US flight in history. […]