This week’s Brandon Asks comes from Ray who asks: I’m fairly new to points and miles. I don’t travel a lot, but I want to travel more. I’ve been collecting Membership Rewards [MR] points for about a year. After the sign up bonus and a year of spending on my business I have about 85,000 Membership Reward […]
Using Great Circle Mapper to Find Flight Distances
Today I’ll expand on a site that everyone needs to get familiar with for booking award travel. Great Circle Mapper (www.gcmap.com) is a site so embedded in award travel searches that I can’t think of a blog that doesn’t use. Today I’ll go over how to use GCmap to find flight distances between routes, and discuss […]
Over the River and Through the Woods–To Grandmother’s House (With Avios) We Go
I’ve been told I sometimes fall into fits of hyperbole, so I’ll be cautious when I say this: By far, the absolute biggest news of 2014 has been the birth of Mini-Milenomics. She’s perfect in every sense of the word, from the top of her head the the tips of her tic-tac-toes: The #1 question […]
#BYOE, Book One Way Flights and Avoid AA Award Change Fees
While US Airways is still around the following also works for US Airways bookings with avios. I’m changing how I book my Domestic AA flights. As many of you know I already book nearly all of my domestic AA flights with Avios. The change moving forward is in how I book those flights with avios. I’m outlining this change to hopefully […]
Suspension of the Rules: Burn Your Avios for Any Upcoming AA flights NOW.
Update: It seems that the sky is not falling. The info about a BA devaluation seems to be not true, but still this is as good a reminder as any for us to avoid hoarding miles. Just a quick post this Sunday, since you might have missed the news. Iberia posted a new award chart for […]
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 […]
Using ANA Miles in Smaller Cities; Stopovers, Free One Ways and More
Here at Milenomics we always want to spend as few miles as possible to travel as much as possible. We’ve covered the idea of the free one way flight many times here on the site. Discussions whether a free one way is right for you, the always useful AA stopovers, my upcoming Costa Rica Trip, […]
Shadow Currency Booking: LAX-DFW on AA With MR for 15,500 R/T
It is no secret that Milenomics has become a big fan of Membership Rewards Points. I’ve called them many things; Shadow Currency, orphan savior, and risky Business. I went from relying mostly on UR in 2012 and 2013 to a gradual shift towards more MR as my Domestic and International programs started to take shape. In fact, […]
Using United Miles to travel to Hawaii; Free One Ways and More
I’ve been knocked out the last few days with a killer bug, only today my mind has cleared enough to start writing again. Special thanks to all who commented on the NYE Open Thread. I appreciate your tips and advice for Milenomics in 2014. Now on to today’s post: A popular destination for domestic travel is Hawaii–no […]
Mileage Conservation with Milenomics–Redux Edition
Today’s post is written for #201 and above Milenomics because it discusses International Travel. The last two posts have led up to today–first we looked at where United will fit into our plans for 2014. Next we looked at our 2014 Domestic travel, and we discussed a few new Low Level Hedges as part of […]