If you want to stop somewhere on a flight, it needs to be part of an open jaw, or a stopover, or a destination. As of writing this, there are still plenty of interesting things you can do with United’s…
How to get paid $40 to Fly to Two Continents
Right now you can score a pretty sweet deal on picking up a single card and going most anywhere in the world, maybe even two other continents. How do we do that? First off, let’s pick up them points. Points…
Using Korean Air to Fly From Chicago to Anchorage
I posted an article on ways to use Korean Air miles – but how can I make this work for me? Hawaiian doesn’t fly out of my local city. How about getting to Alaska though? I’m flying out of O’Hare…
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…
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…
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…
Major American Airlines Frequent Flyer Program Changes
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…
What are these Points Engines in the Top Menu?
The credit card engines at the top of the page are basically rules engines that take and apply inputs to currently existing credit card offers, award charts and conversions that I have coded in. Based on inputs they spit out…
How to Get 1.5 Vacations Out of 1 on United
This article is on how to get the most out of an award redemption on United – American has different rules so that’s going to be a different article. This article applies to tricks that can be done with international…
