Singapore Airlines' KrisFlyer program offers monthly "Spontaneous Escapes" promotions, where they constantly have a list of flights that can be booked at a discount when redeeming miles. Presumably they're primarily discounting flights that they don't…
Several weeks ago EgyptAir announced that the airline will be launching flights between Cairo and Washington Dulles as of June 3, 2019. The airline will operate the flight 3x weekly, with the following schedule: MS981 Cairo to Washington Dulles departing…
Delta SkyMiles doesn't publish award charts. The price you see online is the price you get. Their logic is that the shopping experience for award flights should be the same as the experience of booking a revenue flight, where you also have dynamic pricing.…
As far as I'm concerned, Emirates' new first class is the best first class product in the world. Emirates truly took first class to a whole new level with their new 777-300ER first class. There are a couple of catches, though: -- Historically Emirates…
Over the past few years we’ve seen basic economy fares expanded greatly at the “big three” US carriers. Airlines market these as being lower fares that enable them to compete with ultra low cost carriers, though in reality they’ve used these to try and…
Finding nonstop business class award seats from the US West Coast to Europe can be challenging, especially for travel in summer, when everyone seemingly wants to go. That's why there's an especially noteworthy amount of award availability at the moment,…
Historically one of the best uses of Air France-KLM Flying Blue miles is booking their Promo Awards. Flying Blue publishes these every month, and they offer 20-50% off select award tickets on Air France and KLM metal. In 2018 some major changes were…
Since January 15, 2019, United MileagePlus members haven't had access to award availability on Singapore Airlines, TAP Air Portugal, and Thai Airways. This wasn't just a temporary glitch, but was an intentional outage, and a memo was sent to reservations…
There are many aspects to redeeming miles efficiently. In addition to knowing which programs have the best redemption rates, it also makes sense to understand how you can actually snag the award seats that are available. Part of that is understanding…
For many of us, early February means that we are one month into our new years' resolutions, and that we've finally stopped writing "2018" on any document that we sign. But if you're in the points and miles world and you tend to travel during the Christmas/New…
Recently Ben shared his ranking of what he considers to be The World’s Best First Class Airlines, based on his experiences flying pretty much every commercial first class out there. Unlike the fancy rankings you see elsewhere, with questionable methodologies…
Lufthansa Miles & More is a program we don't talk about too much on the blog here, since the miles are generally pretty hard to come by. That's because Miles & More isn't transfer partners with any of the major transferable points currencies in the U.S.,…
American Airlines has just made award redemptions in premium economy possible. Of the "big three" US carriers, American Airlines was the first to introduce premium economy on their longhaul fleet. The airline has quickly retrofitted their fleet, and…
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…
If you're one of the people who was able to take advantage of the killer Hong Kong Airlines deals last August, your trip is likely approaching soon, and you might be wondering where to credit the miles. I originally wrote this post right after the fare…
For the less familiar, Aeroplan is the once spun-off but now recently-acquired loyalty program for Air Canada. So if you are earning Air Canada miles, you are actually accumulating miles with Aeroplan. I know many bemoan the devaluations we've seen…
Airline partnerships can be complicated, and this is especially true when it comes to redeeming miles on partner airlines. Different airlines take different approaches to releasing award space. Some airlines make more award seats available to members…
The Companion Pass is probably the best way to get discounts on Southwest Airlines, as you're effectively getting 2-for-1 travel for as long as you have the pass. And before anyone makes a snarky comment about no one at OMAAT flying WN, the last time…
British Airways Avios can simultaneously be one of the most valuable and one of the most frustrating points currencies out there. British Airways has a distance based award chart, meaning the currency is valuable in instances where other points wouldn't…
All Nippon Airways (ANA) is the only remaining airline that has the A380 on order but doesn’t yet have a single one of the aircraft in their fleet. ANA will be taking delivery of their first of three Airbus A380s shortly, and the airline has unconventional…
Last month Capital One launched an exciting new benefit for a few of their miles-earning cards, including: • Capital One® Venture® Rewards Credit Card • Capital One® VentureOne® Rewards Credit Card • Capital One® Spark® Miles for Business • Capital One®…
