In this blog post we ask the eternal question posed by philosophers throughout the ages: How, indeed. The quickest, easiest, fastest way to do this right now would be as follows: As per this offer, the CITI / AADVANTAGE PLATINUM…

In this blog post we ask the eternal question posed by philosophers throughout the ages: How, indeed. The quickest, easiest, fastest way to do this right now would be as follows: As per this offer, the CITI / AADVANTAGE PLATINUM…
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…
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…
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…
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…
[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…
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…
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…
Although the American Airlines 100k points Citibank AAdvantage Executive offer has officially ended, there are still links out there for it – and they still work. This can be confirmed when calling to activate the card upon receipt. One such…
American Airlines just announced a ton of changes to their AAdvantage program, effective immediately and pretty much all awful. Notable for the fun points world being a little less fun: I recently wrote about some of the travel tricks…