For quite some time, United miles/Chase Ultimate Rewards points were the darling of the points and miles community for booking Star Alliance premium cabin awards. I imagine most reading this have at some point redeemed at least one or two MileagePlus awards, with the more advanced of us having wrangled together dozens of gratifyingly circuitous…
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Trouble finding business class award space to Europe? Here are your best bets
Everyone wants to fly in the flashiest, latest and greatest business class seats. Good luck getting in on that deal. With more points than ever on the open market, finding award space on popular and well known airlines is ever more difficult. Want to use 57,500 AAdvantage miles to get to Europe in American Airlines…
Cathay Pacific Asia Miles Sweet Spots
The Cathay Pacific Asia Miles mileage redemption program has traditionally taken a back seat in frequent flier circles to the likes of American AAdvantage and British Airways Executive Club. Given all of the negative changes made to the AA and BA programs over the past several years, Asia Miles may be worth a second look…
Introduction: One Last Suites Hurrah — A Week in Central Europe via Singapore Suites and Lufthansa First
One Last Suites Hurrah — A Week in Central Europe via Singapore Suites and Lufthansa First Introduction and Booking Singapore Suites Check-in JFK and Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse Singapore Airlines Suites Class JFK-FRA and FRA EasyPass Enrollment 36 Hours in Prague and Czech Airlines PRG-BUD Review Budapest, BUD Priority Pass Lounge, and Lufthansa Intra-Europe Business Class Review…
One Award, Eight Programs – Final Conclusions
To wrap up my series on using different Star Alliance programs to book awards, I summarize below my findings and experiences. To recap, I wanted to examine the time and effort required to book two different award tickets using eight different Star Alliance frequent flier programs: United MileagePlus Singapore KrisFlyer Avianca LifeMiles Air Canada Aeroplan…
One Award, Eight Programs Part 3 – Fighting the New United Award System and a Pleasant LifeMiles Phone Call
This is part 3 of my series comparing the ease of award booking with various Star Alliance frequent flyer programs. In part 1, I covered booking a transpacific premium cabin award, LAX-ICN-BKK, using 1) United MileagePlus, 2) Singapore KrisFlyer, 3) Avianca LifeMiles, and 4) Air Canada Aeroplan. In part 2, I discussed my experiences booking…
One Award, Eight Programs – Comparing Ease of Award Booking
Hi all, my name is Stephen and I’m a new contributor to the blog. I’ll have a separate post properly introducing myself at a later time, but I wanted to jump right into things with a useful post. With all of the changes and devaluations over the past several years, there’s been an increasing interest…
Earn 250 Aeroplan Miles and Keep Your Miles from Expiring
Aeroplan is offering some incentives for you to share your travel experience! Specifically, you can earn 250 Aeroplan miles by sharing your travel story on their blog, which then might be featured or used in marketing material. 250 miles isn’t a lot; it’s only worth a few bucks depending on your valuation. However, Aeroplan miles expire after just…
Earn 1000 Easy Aeroplan Miles with a Short Quiz
Aeroplan is offering 1,000 Aeroplan miles for doing a short quiz online. You simply have to answer 5 “myth or truth” questions, enter your Aeroplan number, and will earn 1,000 miles. The confirmation page does say that “some promotions are offered by invitation, so bonus miles for those promotions will be credited only if you…
Air Canada Bumps 15-Year-Old Off Flight, Forces Him To Sleep at Airport
Traveling as a minor, even if you are 15 years old, can be an intimidating experience even when all goes well. However, what happens when you get bumped from your flight? These are challenges that even 50 year old travelers sometimes struggle with. CBC Canada recently reported on Hayden Levy, a boy who was traveling…
