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 […]
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Amex No Longer Capping MR Transfers to Delta at 250k/yr.
In case you’re feverishly working at transferring out your MR to Delta Skymiles before January 1, I wanted to update you to the fact that there won’t be a need to do so. Amex just announced that there won’t be a cap next year, contrary to what was widely reported last month. The email is short […]
Using Delta’s New Search Engine to Find Holiday Awards
Last week a reader, Ray, wrote me to ask for help. He wanted to take his sons on a trip this upcoming holiday with Delta miles, but didn’t care where they went. He’s got total flexibility in destination, but not much as far as dates. Knowing that frequent flyer miles are really “flexible flyer miles” Reader […]
Detailing a Complex (and Risky) Strategy to Pay Amex Cards at Walmart
The game we play changes weekly it seems. Some of the best options from last month are quickly dying, and other new options are filling in. I’ve been out of the country for two+ weeks, and have been happy to see debit cards which were not working before I left come back from the dead […]
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 We’ve talked about routes before here on Milenomics; Unfortunately the software I prefer to use is no longer being updated/maintained by its origianl author.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. […]
How Delta Tried to Turn Car Trouble into Highway Robbery
I’ll be the first to admit the story that follows is mostly my fault. I’m sharing it to 1) Serve as a cautionary tale, and 2) Tell Delta that I will not give into their attempts at extortion. — When you travel enough eventually Murphy’s law catches up with you. Last Tuesday was my turn apparently. As I detailed here on the blog […]
How to Book Low Level Delta Awards (without going crazy)
Today we’ll use some of the tools we’ve been covering in our back to basics series. What follows is a real booking I’ve made, from LAX-CUN and back with Delta miles. I’ll go over how I handled the search, and tips to book low level Delta awards and get them to price out correctly. My wife and […]
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 […]
An Introduction to Spending Miles on Award Flights
Last week we introduced some of you to Milenomics, and what makes it different. We also discussed the basics of earning miles for different levels of travelers. Earning Miles Spending Miles Partners Routes Booking Tips & Tricks Be Your Own Elite Today we’ll continue our introduction with a discussion of the other half of the coin: […]