Had a week including both my favorite and least favorite experiences at the airport. What’s my fave? Bazam, scoring some free travel vouchers! If a flight seems oversold and my travel schedule is flexible, I’ll often go up to the…
Racing a Parrot Across a Greek Island
No, not my video, and a tough one to accomplish for a bucket list! This guy is scooting around the Greek island Paros while his pet Macaw parrot flying next to him. Pretty awesome!
Airline Stopover and Open Jaw Rules or – How To Get Extra Trips!
[gcmap path=’bos-cdg;lhr-bos’ pathcolor=magenta][/gcmap] Map above depicts a trip from Boston to Paris, then London to Boston. The open jaw is at the destination between Paris and London. Normally this costs extra money – but on many award tickets, this can…
Chase UR Deals To Hawaii, Alaska and Europe via Korean Air
I pretty much equate Chase Ultimate Rewards (UR) points with United points – although they transfer to other airline partners as well. Korean Air actually has some sweet spots for travelers from the US, at least if certain criteria are…
How To Scale A Single Card for Eight $311 tickets to Europe
So, we can currently get a great many points from the Ink Plus credit card and pretty much go anywhere in the world for $100 – with 70,000 Chase UR points for the sign up offer. How many points can…
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…
This Single Credit Card Will Get You A $100 International Ticket To Almost Anywhere
Chase has recently upped the award bonus on the Ink Plus (a business credit card) to a pretty large amount – 70,000 Chase UR points. Normally the card is 50k with the $95 waived and is available online; for this offer amount…
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…
US Airlines Most Profitable and Least Comfortable
So sayeth World Airline Awards. Ranking and comments from this article at Quartz. Certainly it seems like things are quite different these days than when I was flying even 5 years ago; it seemed like there were many more open…
What’s a Mileage Run? Obtaining American Airlines Executive Platinum
What’s a mileage run? It’s something crazy people do, really. The first time I read about them was on flyertalk – where there are some examples of some truly crazy runs. There are many threads like this. The purpose of…
