American Airlines has some off peak times noted in their award chart. Business and First Class cabins don’t change, but Economy does. Notably the SAAver award for South America Region 2 as well as Europe goes from 30k miles to…
A Cheap Summer Hop To Europe In Business Class
One Mile At A Time points out that Aer Lingus availability looks pretty good right now, even in the summer, to Dublin. This is one of the better points deals out there using British Airways distance based award chart, where I…
Whopping 40% Transfer Bonus Amex to British Airways
There’s currently a huge 40% transfer bonus from transferring Amex Membership Rewards points over to British Airways. British Airways does have some interesting and good usages as noted in some of my other posts. Who does Amex transfer to? I…
British Airways Avios Sweet Spots
The best use of British Airways Avios (miles) seems to be for using anything but actually flying on British Airways. Many international airlines charge fuel surcharges, but the BA ones are crazy large. They are passed on to American Airlines…
Using Points to get to Japan
Japan seems a must visit at least some time, for all of the crazy interesting things going on there. How can we get there? It’s December ’14 and I’m poking around September ’15 – rates are only even loaded to…
Avios Reward Redemptions from Chicago O’Hare ORD
British Airways has a distance based award chart with their avios (miles) plan. There are some real sweet spots in this plan for short trips and direct flights. For example, ORD to DCA, round trip, is only 9,000 avios and…
Constructing a Race Cat Vacation Itinerary and How To Use the KVS Availability Tool
I decided to attend the Living With Lions program in South Africa. It looks super fun. Look at those adorable kittens! How to go? I looked at United and American but really wanted to use up some of my American…
My First Attempt At British Airways Avios Redemption
British Airways has a distance based award chart with their Avios as noted above. Quite a deal for some of these routes. Per the Great Circle Mapper, ORD to DCA is 612 miles; a round trip economy ticket could be…
