Well, it's official. The award for the world's craziest airline loyalty program award chart goes to... Air India! And that doesn't even have anything to do with their redemption rates. You have to see Air India's award chart to believe it: Like, I actually…
Singapore Airlines has just rolled out their latest monthly promo, which can be a great deal for anyone looking to redeem miles on Singapore Airlines. Singapore Airlines' KrisFlyer program offers monthly "Spontaneous Escapes" deals, where they constantly…
This spring United announced some major changes to the MileagePlus program, as they'd abolish award charts and would instead switch to dynamic award pricing. That means that MileagePlus redemption rates no longer have a minimum or maximum price. These…
Delta pretty frequently publishes flash sales on award tickets. More often than not these are for domestic and/or economy tickets, but at the moment they have an excellent sale for travel to Europe in business class. With this promotion you can fly roundtrip…
I just reviewed Virgin Atlantic's new A350-1000 Upper Class, which I flew from London to New York recently. The flight was fantastic, and while I had booked a discounted business class ticket, I wanted to talk a bit about the best options for redeeming…
American Airlines has been doing a good job lately with adding partner airline award options to aa.com. This makes it easier for the average member to redeem American miles, since they can see all the options available to them with a single search. If…
British Airways has launched a potentially lucrative promotion, though get ready to pay big fees. At the moment British Airways is offering a potentially lucrative award sale. This is valid for bookings made through November 21, 2019, and for travel…
I'll keep it short. The Olympics are in Tokyo next summer, and I know a lot of people are looking to go there. The catch is that it can be really tough to find award availability to the Olympics, given how much demand there is. Well, last week I wrote…
Air France-KLM Flying Blue has just published the details of their latest Promo Awards, which are valid for bookings as of tomorrow. Historically one of the best uses of Air France-KLM Flying Blue miles is booking their Promo Awards. Flying Blue publishes…
Historically the "big three" US airlines haven't let you redeem miles for premium economy on partner airlines. Presumably that's at least partly because in the past they haven't offered their own premium economy cabins, so they also didn't allow those…
One of the trickiest things about redeeming miles is accurately searching award space. You have to know where to search for it, the foibles of each search engine, and that's before you even get into the thick of what partners each airline has and the…
I find Alaska Mileage Plan miles to be incredibly valuable, and in particular appreciate that they allow stopovers even on one-way awards. Well, it looks like the program is changing their policy on this, at least for travel within one region. Alaska…
Every month Air France-KLM Flying Blue publishes Promo Awards, offering discounted redemptions in select markets. These are typically released at the beginning of each month, and I write about them when they go live. A few days ago I wrote about how…
Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles are among my favorite mileage currencies out there. On a per mile basis, I value Alaska miles more than any other airline miles. In this post I wanted to talk a bit more about actually redeeming Alaska miles -- the…
While American isn't great about making saver level award seats available on their own flights, there are still some fantastic partner airline award opportunities available. In this post I wanted to take a closer look at that for those based in the US.…
Yay, it looks like it's finally possible to redeem Alaska Mileage Plan miles for travel on Singapore Airlines, and the implementation is better than I was expecting. Back in August 2017, Alaska Airlines and Singapore Airlines announced a partnership,…
Air France La Premiere is one of my favorite first class products in the world, and it looks like they've just added even more restrictions to booking awards in this cabin. As it stands, Air France first class awards can exclusively be booked by Flying…
Historically Air New Zealand is one of the stingiest airlines when it comes to making business class award seats available, in particular for travel between the US and New Zealand. There are many times where there's not a single business class award…
This April, United MileagePlus announced that they'd abolish award charts, following Delta's lead. Well, there's an update on that, and I'm not fully sure what to make of it... Back in April United essentially provided no advance notice of huge changes…
American Airlines is continuing their trend of adding partner airline award bookings to their website, aa.com. American Airlines AAdvantage members can now redeem miles for travel on Seaborne Airlines directly on aa.com. American says that this is the…
Of the "big three" Gulf carriers, Etihad has by far the best frequent flyer program when it comes to redemption opportunities. This includes them having what's one of my favorite award chart sweet spots out there. Historically you've been able to fly…
