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Hyatt makes it easy to transfer points between members allowing you to combine points. You do have to share your Name, Hyatt #, Mailing address, Phone # and Email address so you’ll need to be comfortable sharing those details with who you are transferring the points to. This shouldn’t be...
After using United miles to fly ANA First Class twice now, I was determined to understand how to do it with AMEX points. On April 24, United doubled the cost of miles needed to redeem for ANA Business & First Class. Business Class went from 88,000 miles one-way to 110,000...
Wow! I’ve traveled 1 Million miles since 2013 which is enough to circle the world more than 40 times in less than 10 years. I did travel prior to 2013, but didn’t track it with TripIt. I crossed the 1 Million miles mark after arriving on JL66 into SAN from...
Flying to New Zealand & Australia from the US is a long haul so using miles/points to fly in Business Class makes a huge difference. There are sweet spots in various airline award charts and I was able to take advantage of 1 of them for an upcoming trip. Alaska...
The biggest hassle of using miles/points for flights always seems to be finding award availability. With most searches being day by day or at most in a monthly calendar view, it can be very time consuming. There is now a website available, https://www.flightplantool.com, which uses source code designed by a...
Flying to Africa from the US is a long haul so using miles/points to fly in Business or First Class makes a huge difference. There are sweet spots in various airline award charts and I was able to take advantage of 3 of them for an upcoming trip. Alaska...
With the farewell of Virgin America, my points converted to Alaska Airlines miles. I now value Alaska Airlines miles as some of the best miles to earn given their sweet spots on international award redemptions! Alaska Airlines offers Cathay Pacific awards from the US to SE Asia for 50,000 in...
Earning Airline Miles Always signup for the airline mileage program account prior to your flight in order to earn miles. If you signup after your flight, the airline might deny your request to retroactively earn miles. This happened to a reader while trying to credit a British Airways flight to...
Some travelers are loyal to 1 airline, but you can’t always fly the same airline for every flight due to your destination or flight time. I’d much rather fly a foreign airline while traveling internationally to almost guarantee better service than a US airline. When flying for a business trip,...
A few loyal readers, Claire & Danny, signed up for the Chase Sapphire Reserve 100K bonus when it was available last year and recently reached out to me to assist with booking an award using their Chase UR points. They were flexible on their dates but their destinations were set in...
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