Travel Miles 101 Roundup – Week Ending 12/11/15

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Here are the can’t-miss travel rewards articles you need to read from the past week: Essential Reading: The Points Guy ran an informative series of ‘top tips’ for earning and redeeming miles on American, United and Delta: 13 Tips for Earning, Burning and Flying with United Airlines 14 Tips for Earning, Burning and Flying with […]

Travel Miles 101 Roundup – Week Ending 12/4/15

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We hope you all enjoyed the Thanksgiving holiday! We took the week off from our regular roundup post, so this is actually a roundup of interesting articles we found over the last two (fairly quiet) weeks in the world of the travel rewards: Essential Reading: The Points Guy: 5 Sweet Spots in the New American […]

Travel Miles 101 Roundup – Week Ending 11/20/15

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This was a big week in the world of travel rewards!  Here is the Travel Miles 101 roundup of essential travel rewards news you need to know for the week ending 11/20/2015: Top News Marriott agrees to purchase Starwood Hotels: This deal, which is expected to close in mid-2016 will create the world’s largest hotel […]

Travel Miles 101 Roundup – Week Ending 11/13/15

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Here’s the Travel Miles 101 roundup of essential news for the week ending 11/13/2015: Essential Reading: New Airline Routes of Note: Airberlin announces 3 new US routes from Dusseldorf to: Boston, Dallas and San Francisco.  This is especially good news for those with British Airways Avios or American Airlines miles as there are no fuel […]

Travel Miles 101 Roundup – Week Ending 11/6/15

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We know you don’t have time to read the hundreds of travel rewards articles published every week, so Alexi and I try to cut through the noise and curate only the essential information for you to easily digest.  Here’s our roundup for the week ending 11/6/2015: Essential Reading: The most informative articles we came across […]

Travel Miles 101 Roundup – Week Ending 10/30/15

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Our mission with Travel Miles 101 is to make the world of earning and redeeming travel rewards points simpler and more accessible for regular people.  We know you don’t have hours to pore over the hundreds of new articles published every day, so this post starts a weekly feature where we curate the essential information […]

Booking Example: Using Chase Ultimate Rewards to fly in the US

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We consider Chase Ultimate Rewards points the most valuable of all the travel rewards currencies. It is tough to beat the 10 different Chase transfer partner options (including our four favorite: United, Southwest, Hyatt and British Airways) that give you built in diversification of your travel points. We believe these are the essential points currency […]

Southwest Companion Pass: The Holy Grail of Travel Rewards

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In a prior video I talked about how much value I get out of the Southwest Airlines frequent flyer program and how easy and intuitive it is for the ‘regular family’ like ours to use. For most people who fly in the United States (and now the Caribbean too!), Southwest should be the first airline […]

How to Search Award Availability on American Airlines

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When I’m searching for American Airlines and OneWorld Alliance award availability, I head over to AA.com as my go-to option for finding award seats. I find AA.com to be very user-friendly and their calendar option allows you to see a month at a glace, which is quite helpful. I also use AA.com when I’m looking […]

Case Study: Europe and Africa on One Award Booking

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I recently received an email from a reader asking if I could help him with an upcoming trip he wants to plan. He’s a college professor going on a semester sabbatical and his hope is to spend half the time in Europe and half traveling around Africa. He wanted an easy way to accumulate the […]