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Extracting More Value from United Award Flights

November 6, 2013

Yesterday I wrote about using Award Nexus to search for flights. I used the service to search for a United award to Thailand. Award…

November 5, 2013

Regardless of how you feel about the news from last week regarding United–we still have plenty of time to use our United Miles under…

November 4, 2013

Between a quick analysis of the United MP changes, and calling out the guilty parties (ourselves included) I happened to mention I’m a dual-earn…

November 2, 2013

I get it. Running an airline is a hard business. You fuel up a plane that you lease or buy for 100’s of millions…

November 1, 2013

We’ve been slightly sidetracked by the recent United news that came out early today. Please focus discussion on that devaluation either on FT or…

November 1, 2013

Both Will Run For Miles and Frugal Travel Lawyer wrote today about United’s recent devaluation. If you haven’t heard yet–it is pretty bad for…

October 31, 2013

I’ve talked about Demand schedules for a few months now–introducing them as a part of “The Law of Supply and Demand of Miles.” Today we’ll…

October 29, 2013

Note: Today’s Post is only for #101 level Milenomics. Most of us should be using our US Airways miles for international travel. A good post…

October 28, 2013

A few weeks ago I made a booking for a rental car with CapitalOne Travel, documenting the process in a blog post. Today I’m…

October 26, 2013

In my last post I talked about how we can remove inefficiencies in our personal Milenomics Mileage Runs. In doing so we spoke a…