I recently spent some time learning about El Al’s award scheme while helping a family member book roundtrip flights in Business Class. I thought I’d summarize my findings here in

I ended up going down quite a rabbit hole recently while trying to figure out the best way of booking an award for travel on Etihad – using their miles or

Online purveyor of gift cards GiftCards.com is now appearing in airline shopping portals. Judging from Cashback Monitor‘s handy rate history functionality, this appears to be a n..

I was doing some award searches for our February 2019 school break and found a surprising amount of Saver Level award availability for four people from Boston-LAX in First Class:

Hawaiian Airlines announced direct service to Boston starting in April 2019. With flights 5 days a week on A330s equipped with 18 lie-flat seats, this will be by far the

We decided a week ago to take a short-notice trip from Boston to Washington DC this weekend. Since AA and JetBlue serve the BOS-DCA direct route, the conventional wisdom is

A trip to Europe in April is on our Family Demand Schedule for 2019. I haven’t been able to find award availability until just recently. Here’s how I booked it, using

Alaska’s acquisition of Virgin America has been an interesting one to interact with. With the exception of the somewhat stingy 1.3:1 transfer ratio they elected for Virgin Americ..

Today’s Brandon Asks is from Tim…
“Can you help get our family of three from Boston to Singapore this summer using points & miles?
Departing BOS between July 24-27, returning fro..

Booked SWISS First
One day back in November 2017 SWISS released partner award space in their First Class cabin.
This was noteworthy because SWISS generally only allows those wit..

It looks to me like Lufthansa has just recently released quite a bit of partner award availability for travel from the US to Europe this summer in Business Class. This

Explore the Aer Lingus Business Class Cabin
If you’ve followed the points & miles game for a while you may recall the sweet spot that once existed when redeeming British Airways..

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