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Amex Business Card Offer: Earn up to 25K points with employee cards (targeted)
American Express has brought back another promotion for adding employee/authorized user cards to Business Platinum accounts: 5,000 Membership Rewards points after $2K in purchases in the first 6 months...
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Join us at 9pm Eastern time on Monday 6/3 for Flying by the Seat of Our...
The 2024 Frequent Miler team challenge is almost upon us, with our initial live stream reveal set for Monday, June 3, 2024 at 9pm Eastern time. We’ll be going live on Youtube at that time for Carrie...
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A big kick-off, winning in Vegas, Hyatt’s slow devaluation, and a lot more...
Flying by the Seat of our Points, the 2024 Frequent Miler team challenge, kicks off in a few days. In this Frequent Miler week in review, you can find out how to join us for the kick-off event on...
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Wide open Delta One space to Seoul, South Korea (from ~117K miles for...
The Points Guy reported last night on some wide open Delta One award space to Seoul, South Korea. I’m surprised to see that this space has stuck around today. While 125,000-135,000 miles one way is not...
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Ritz-Carlton coming to Oahu’s North Shore, Southwest hikes fees and Hyatt to...
Ritz Carlton has taking over an enviable property on Oahu’s North Shore, Southwest is raising rates for EarlyBird check-in and Hyatt announces that it’s launching a new Japanese brand. All that and...
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Last Chance Deals: Hyatt award sale, Fontainebleau status match & more
Welcome to our weekly list of what’s ending this week as well as a collection of some other deals that are due to end soon. It’s a quieter week for deals coming to an end as only have a dozen offers...
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Check out Greg and Nick’s podcast guest appearances with Chris Hutchins
Both Greg and I recently had podcast guest appearances and I wanted to write a quick post to let readers (and listeners of our own Frequent Miler on the Air podcast) know about the episodes and where...
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Bumped from Business Class (and a Lufthansa A340-300 Premium Economy review)
Lufthansa oversold business class and bumped me down to Premium Economy. For a recent trip to Sweden and Norway, I had booked a return flight using Avianca LifeMiles: 60,000 miles + $146 in fees for...
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Searching Singapore’s Sweet-Spots (Greg’s Flying by the Seat of our Points...
That’s it. I’m as ready as I’m going to be. Yesterday I crossed off the final items on my preparation to-do list. This included earning more points, finding a new online use for Asia Miles, and finding...
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Last Minute Travel Challenge? Prepare I will not! (Tim’s Flying by the Seat...
By now, most everyone who’s reading this post knows that we’re mere hours away from the beginning of the 2024 Frequent Miler Challenge, “Flying by the Seat of our Points.” The crux of the contest is...
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Current Amex Offers
Updated 6/3/24 with many new offers including those from Marriott, Hilton All-inclusives, Uniworld River Cruises, Zoom, HP, Lenovo, Stanley 1913, and many more. This specific page is designed to show...
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(Update: Live for all properties) Hilton partnering with AutoCamp:...
Update 6/3/24: All AutoCamp properties are now bookable via Hilton.com. Again, a standard Airstream books as a standard room award. Some properties also have other types of suites as standard awards....
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American Airlines flights bookable at Cathay Pacific
We’re not sure how long this has been the case, but awards for travel on American Airlines are now bookable on the Cathay Pacific website. That’s a nice development because you can sometimes score a...
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(Hours to go; final prep steps) Prepping for last-minute travel? Huh? (Nick’s...
With hours to go before we learn the first destination, I made my final maneuvers — installing PointsPath, making an important cancellation, and a last-minute equipment addition under the latest...
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Stack it: 15% LifeMiles transfer bonus from Amex Membership Rewards; combine...
I tried my best to convince Greg to love Avianca LifeMiles. Just in time to teach him how powerful LifeMiles can be for his last-minute booking needs, Avianca LifeMiles has launched a 15% transfer...
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Stage 1 Challenge Destination: LAX! (Last Minute Travel Challenge)
Introducing Frequent Miler’s 2024 team challenge: Flying by the Seat of our Points! With this year’s challenge, three of us will compete to book last-minute travel. Within each of three stages, our...
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New Visa SavingsEdge has launched; need to relink credit cards (but might not...
For years, people with Visa business cards could enroll in a program called Visa SavingsEdge. This program provided card-linked offers that gave statement credits for certain retailers, services,...
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TopCashback offering 9% cashback on Hilton bookings (no exclusion for Diamond...
Hilton has been missing from most shopping portals for several months, but it’s now back on TopCashback. Not only can you now earn 9% cashback at many of their brands, but there’s no terms excluding...
View ArticlePodcast: Our worst travel challenge moments | Coffee Break Ep13 | 6-4-24
You know that sinking feeling when you know things are going wrong? With a brand new travel challenge just launched last night, we’ve got our past travel challenge snafus in mind. Watch the full...
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Earn 25x Marriott Bonvoy points with new Homes & Villas promotion (book by...
Marriott Homes & Villas seems to offer a relentless series of promotions, with their latest earning opportunity being one of the best they’ve ever offered. That’s because they’re giving quintuple...
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