Today we’re going back to the basics, and reviewing how to search for award tickets. I’ll be highlighing AA with this post and showing two ways to search for award flights while specifically excluding carriers you don’t want to fly on. In today’s example we’ll go with one of the toughest AA awards out there; […]
Award Booking Tips for All Three Major Alliances
We’ve covered a lot of ground in our back to basics introduction to the Milenomics Universe. Today we’ll continue with award booking tips for the three major alliances. Some of today’s post will refer back to older Milenomics posts, I always suggest you click through as many links as possible, and read and study Milenomics […]
How to Use flightconnections.com to Find Award Routes
Today we’re continuing our Milenomics basics series. We’ll be talking about airline routes, and how to find/figure out who flies where. We’ve talked about routes before here on Milenomics; Unfortunately the software I prefer to use is no longer being updated/maintained by its origianl author. The last post in this series had extensive information on partners and alliances. […]
Partners, Alliances and Why Partner Awards are So Confusing
Last week we discussed Spending our Miles, and the basics of what ever award booking cost: Miles and Money. We’re continuing our introduction series here on Milenomics, and will today discuss Partner Airlines. Earning Miles Spending Miles Partners Routes Booking Tips & Tricks Be Your Own Elite Partners are simultaneously the most confusing yet the most rewarding part of […]
Reader Help: Booking to Machu Picchu & the Galapagos Islands
Today’s post is written in response to a reader’s question. Hi, I am wondering if you can give me advice on how to use Delta miles to go to both Ecuador (Galapagos) and Peru (Machu Pichu) on the same trip. We would really like to go on a 5 day Galapagos tour so would need […]
Converting Frequent Flyer Miles: How Fungible are Miles Really?
Today we’ll study up on the subject of Fungiblity of Miles. Simply put–something is fungible if you can exchange individual units for back and forth with each other. The classic example is cash–a $10 and 2 $5 bills are interchangeable. At some point this idea of cash being fungible breaks down . Would you accept 100 […]
Start using AA and US Miles on Each Other Jan 7
From the Dallas Morning news, and an interview with Doug Parker, all around great guy, and CEO of the new American Airlines Group, Inc (AAL); Jan. 7 will be “our first big day” for customers, Kirby said. On that day, each airline will recognize the other’s elite frequent fliers. In addition, a passenger on one […]
BA Avios Booking Tool: The AA Award Map
If you’re new to using miles today’s post gives you a great tool to try to find award flights and use your Avios. The post is tagged for #101 level Milenomics–but is useful for all of us. Today we’ll talk about one of the tools I like to use when your destination is flexible, but […]
Membership Rewards Points: Shadow Currency, Orphan Savior and Risky Business
Note: Yesterday’s post was all #101. Today’s post is the opposite. Also, if you’re new to Miles this post is not for you. We’ve discussed the similarities between miles and investing before on Milenomics. We all know investing carries risk–and something your broker will often ask is how “risk tolerant” you are. If you want to […]
Identifying the Best Program for First Time Users of Miles
Today’s post is for pure #101 travelers–those of us who fly a few times a year to a few different places and just want their tickets to be paid for with miles whenever possible. I wanted to pick the easiest program to get started collecting Miles in. Today I’ll introduce the process I used to […]