What’s the deal with the Delta award sale? Through July 18th, 2016, Delta SkyMiles members can save on more than 8,000 routes in the contiguous 48 United States with the new award travel sale. The travel period is between August 23rd, 2016 and February 10th, 2017 and economy fares start at just 5,000 miles one-way […]
What’s the deal with Surf Air? Surf Air has announced that it’s branching out to Europe later this year. From October, 2016, the US all-you-can-fly membership club that’s nicknamed the ‘Uber of travel’ is offering unlimited monthly travel between select European destinations for a standard membership cost that starts at GBP 2,500 (US $3,240). Members […]
We have written about the amazing 2,500 mile redemption with Jet Airways before. Jet Airways JetPrvilege is quite an exotic program and partners with American Airlines and United Airlines. For certain – seemingly random – city pairs the redemption rate is just 2,500 points – for other destinations inside the US it is a flat […]
Delta keeps surprising us with the steps they take to change their frequent flyer program, case by case. For several west coast cities, including San Francisco to Los Angeles, they have now introduced a one-way award of 5,000 miles. Now that’s entirely a good thing, but nobody knows if or how long it will stay that way. […]
2015 hasn’t yet seen a major devaluation in any major US airline mileage programs, but I always expect one to be just around the corner, so here is what I think are great uses of airline miles for this year. Use AAdvantage airline miles to Africa AAdvantage has an odd set of routing rules and I […]
Several readers have asked me what my recommendations are for their 'bulging' American Express Membership Rewards balances. Normally I'd say 'use up all your points for charges'! Just kidding – don't do that it's as it's normally really bad value if you have ANY interest in travel. Instead most of the redemptions below are based […]
Flying Blue's current promo awards, available exclusively online, can save you up to 50% on award miles. New destinations are announced on the first of every month and you can book as early as early as two months ahead of the travel period. You can fly one-way economy between Europe and Brazil for 20,000 miles: […]
My quest to use my Etihad Guest miles continues. I have largely given up on redeeming Etihad Guest miles on partners, though there are some good deals with Air Seychelles and Royal Air Maroc. I talked to an Etihad Guest Supervisor who was able to look up availability after my recent post. However, there is […]
So I'm in the process of booking my first (!) Alaska Airlines award today and I'm amazed: – Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan allows free stopovers (this one I knew) – Alaska Airlines award can be cancelled free of charge 60 days before departure What kind of fees are associated with an award ticket? Award travel […]
Direct link to promotion page Type of promotion: Earn more miles for a new flight Airlines: Hawaiian Airlines What are benefits? Earn 3x the miles on Honolulu to Beijing flights between April 16, 2014 and May 2, 2014 with Hawaiian Airlines. This works on all mileage earning fare classes. Terms and conditions Offer is valid […]