Robert: Chase recently replaced their Ultimate Rewards travel portal with the Expedia search engine. We wrote about this previously when Chase rolled this out on the Freedom card a couple of months ago. It wasn’t that interesting at the time since the Freedom card only has 1 cent per point uplift. But now that […]
Use Revolving Lines of Credit to Earn the 60,000 UR Chase Sapphire Banking Bonus
We’re not yet at the return of the traditional app-o-rama yet–but today I want to introduce the idea of using your float to earn additional money. This post is risky business–mostly because the effect on your credit score, the possibility of messing up and owing interest on your credit cards, and the chance of malfunction […]
United Copies Delta, To Go Revenue Based on Accrual in 2015
United annouunced, somewhat un-gracefully, that starting March 1, 2015 they will be going to a revenue based accrual model which closely resembled Delta’s planned 2015 Skymiles changes. In fact the earning levels will match exactly those which Delta announced earlier this year. More details can be found on http://mileageplusupdates.com/ which has a handy calculator to see […]
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 […]
Spring Credit Card Reconsideration Phone Calls
Earlier today I wrote about my Spring CCC applications. As I mentioned all three went into pending, which I was somewhat expecting. This meant I would need to make some Credit Card Reconsideration Phone Calls. I went ahead and called on all three, and this post will serve as a blow by blow of my […]
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 […]
Bearish or Bullish? The Answer Will Define What Cards you Apply For
We’re continuing to do research into what cards to apply for our Winter Credit card Calendar applications. A few days ago in the post on Market Timing I wrote that I’m feeling rather bearish right now about US and AA miles. Because of this I’m in a holding pattern for the US Airways Buy Miles Promo. In […]
Preparing for Winter Credit Card Calendar (CCC) Apps
Three months ago I introduced the CCC in the Post, “The Credit Card Calendar: 32 Miles per Dollar all year long.” For those of you who weren’t reading Milenomics at the time I’ll give a quick Recap of the Credit Card Calendar (CCC) here. The CCC splits the year up into quarters–roughtly equal to the […]
Using Demand Schedules to Target Earnings
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 in the comments of the earlier post here. I’ll do my best to get us back on track with regular Milenomics posts. I also have a special piece I’m working on […]
Quick Analysis of United’s Recent Devaluation Announcement
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 Business/First travelers. I wouldn’t just call it a devaluation as much as a shift in how United Mileage Plus works as a program. You’re now looking at two tiers for premium cabins–one […]