I’m on record saying that the fastest way to earn miles and points is through lucrative sign up bonuses. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be concentrating on maximizing your earning rate at other times. In this post I’ll detail some of the ways I ensure that I earn the most points possible whenever I’m purchasing something.
24 Hours in Portland
After a hiatus of a few months, I’ve decided to try to revive the blog a bit. So we’ll see how that goes! Anyway, last Columbus Day, we took a trip with my parents to Martha’s Vineyard. We didn’t have that kind of time this year, but since I had some leftover Hilton points lying around, I booked us one night at the Hampton Inn in downtown Portland, Maine for 40,000 points. It turned out to be a great trip!
Skymiles Business Class Devaluation Effective June 2014
Delta has decided to increase the amount of miles needed for business class redemptions effective for travel starting in June 2014. I wish I could say I am surprised, but people have been expecting a devaluation for awhile now. I think it says something (negative) that Delta announced this via a Flyertalk forum, although I guess they figured those were the people who would care the most. Here are some details and my thoughts on the move.
Using British Airways Avios to book American Airlines tickets
A friend asked me if I could do a post on using British Airways Avios for flying on American Airlines flights. It may seem counterintuitive, but there are times when you want to use one type of airline mile to fly on one of its alliance partners. In this case, British Airways and American are Oneworld partners, and you can save some miles by using BA Avios in the right instances. Here’s how:
Delta Airbus 330 Business Elite Review – with a baby!
I’m not going to do an in depth trip report of our flight, but I just wanted to give my impressions of Delta’s Business Elite product – the non lie-flat kind. Delta’s fleet of Airbus A330s are leftovers from the Northwest merger, and feature angled recline seating as opposed to the 777s and 767s which have fully lie-flat seating (they’re very nice, btw, flew one from HKG-DTW once). Not the most comfortable seats, but of course it beat flying overseas in coach. We flew the same type of plane both ways so I’ll just hit both flights in the same post and touch a little bit on the infant experience at the end. If you’re interested on how we got on these flights for under $100 each, you can look here and here.
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