The #1 Trick For Finding Award Availability

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When it comes to redeeming miles and points for “free” travel (plus taxes and fees), most people make a mistake when searching for award availability – there are ways to search for award availability and then there are accurate ways to search for award availability. The average passenger will visit the airline’s website and plug […]

Understanding Award Ticket Service Fees

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Award Tickets (tickets booked using miles) are incredibly flexible – they can usually be changed or cancelled for minimal fees – especially when comparing the fee structure to normal revenue tickets. Every frequent flyer program has their own rules and fees for changes and cancellations. For example, American Airlines allows you to change the date […]

Understanding Mileage Expiration

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There’s nothing worse than checking your mileage account to find your balance to be “0 Miles” – especially after you worked super hard to earn those miles and were saving up for your dream redemption… and award availability just happened to show up today. It is extremely important to understand the mileage expiration rules and […]

Strategies for Booking Award Travel

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Everyone has their own strategy for booking award travel – whether that’s booking right as the schedule opens or booking the day before departure. There definitely isn’t one, best strategy for everyone (as that depends on what you are booking, where you are going, number of passengers, etc.), but some of the important, key concepts […]

Taking Advantage of Delta SkyMiles Flash Sales

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Delta SkyMiles certainly aren’t the world’s best points – mainly being due to the fact that Delta loves to frequently make changes to their frequent flyer program without notifying members in advance. Delta makes horrible changes to SkyMiles overnight without advance notice. Oh yeah, and they don’t even publish award charts.. insane, right?! There are still […]

The Benefits of Redeeming Alaska Miles on Finnair

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Alaska Airlines added Finnair as a partner more than a year ago – yet award redemptions on Finnair were not available until a few weeks ago. Alaska provided no notice as to why award bookings on Finnair are not possible for such a long time – however, Finnair redemptions are now live on Alaska’s website! […]

Tips For Constructing Your Dream Award Flight

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Miles are boundless – you can see the entire world on miles and points for little to none in taxes and fees. I’ve been able to visit so many unique destinations around the world thanks to miles & points in true luxury.. that would otherwise cost a fortune to fly to (i.e. Fiji, French Polynesia, […]

Understanding an Open-Jaw

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Do you ever book a round-trip ticket and then add on a separate round-trip ticket within your original ticket to visit another city? Well, you likely won’t ever have to again! For example, if you book something like New York – London round-trip and also want to visit Paris, you may think that you’d need […]

Understanding an Award Ticket Stopover

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Mileage tickets can be very powerful – not only are you redeeming miles for a free flight, you can often also include more than one destination for no additional cost. A stopover. Many airlines allow passengers to redeem their miles for an award ticket which features 1 or 2 stopovers in addition to their destination […]

Flying to French Polynesia Using Miles

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Flying to one of the most gorgeous places in the world, French Polynesia, can be quite expensive on a revenue ticket – especially from North America or Europe. Flights from Asia/Australia to French Polynesia are a bit less expensive, but still can be insanely priced. Thankfully, airlines from all major alliances – Star Alliance, oneworld, and SkyTeam […]