Last November, Google ran a crazy promo for their Fi wireless service. If you bought a phone from them and met some other requirements they’d give you travel gift cards worth the price of the hardware. I thought at the time that the deal was prone to malfunction. It seemed thrown together as quickly […]
Bizarro Bonvoyed: How Marriott Award Availability Works In Practice
There’s been a lot of chatter about Marriott’s Bonvoy program lately. Specifically about whether they play games with award availability and what their “no blackout” policy actually means. Which blackout date policy will the new Marriott Rewards program adopt? from Free-quent Flyer How Did I Miss This? Marriott’s Terrible Blackout Date Policy from One Mile […]
Bonvoyed: Extra Person Fee
As we were discussing on Episode 17 of the Podcast – we had one last chance to book Marriott properties for 60,000 points/nt before top properties go up to 85,000+/nt on March 5th, 2019. I booked one provisional stay but came across an annoyance along the way: The dreaded Marriott Bonvoy Extra Person Fee. A […]
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 […]
Booking Hotel Timeshares with Bank Points
We’re headed out to California for vacation this week, splitting time between our beloved Four Seasons Residence Club Aviara and Disney’s Grand Californian. Here at Milenomics we like to talk about “techniques we use over and over again”. Because the Net Present Value of a deal is higher when it can be repeated thus generating […]
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 […]
Wells Fargo Business Platinum 50,000 Offer [Worth $750 in Air Travel w/Visa Signature]
The Wells Fargo Business Platinum offer has been updated to clarify that the signup bonus is: $500 -or- 50,000 points Previously the offer was only for $500. This is an important difference because Wells Fargo Rewards points can be worth 1.5 cents a piece (or more) when paired with the Wells Fargo Visa Signature and […]
Amex Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant 100,000 + Up To 20,000 for Referral Now Available
The Amex Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant card with a 100,000 point signup bonus is now available for referrals. The $450 annual fee is not waived the first year, but the card comes with a $300 per cardmember year statement credit for Marriott hotels. Eligibility The list of disqualifying dispositions is a long and painful read. But […]
This Week in Bank Points: Amtrak First Class Upgrade Coupons
I recently wrote about transferring bank points to Amtrak for 1.5 cents per point+ of value. See: Redeem Bank Points For Amtrak [Up To 1.64 Cents Per Point] In that post I mentioned the option of buying Amtrak upgrade coupons. I went through the process recently, upgrading Acela Business Class to First Class. In short: It […]
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 […]