Award booking
CategoryHawaii miles and points guide Part 2: Best award rates
In Part 1, we discussed who flies to Hawaii, how to find out which carriers might work for you, and how using partners can save you miles. In Part 2, we’ll
Did LAX just get a lot better for Southwest positioning flights?
We decided to come back from Cuba. Actually we never went, but working, traveling and family-ing left little time for blogging, a labor of love that hasn’t seen much labor
Cheapest lap infant award tickets for international travel
In general parlance, you usually hear that lap infants are “free” until they turn two. That’s generally true – if flying domestically you can bring your under 2 year old
Hong Kong Revisited: Surviving the 15 hour flight with two young kids
So we took M back to Asia before she turned two and figured we owed H the same. Coming to Hong Kong for only a week seemed like a great
A quick look at Korean Air award ticket fuel surcharges
I actually scheduled this article to be posted while I visit Hong Kong next week, but since people are flipping out about Delta’s latest devaluation I moved it up the
How to put a Korean Air award on hold for a family
One reason I love having an Award Booking Service is it gives me the chance to book award travel. I’d love to book my own award travel, but I don’t
Easy travel rewards for non hackers
One of my favorite Saverocity personalities, Robert Dwyer, and I both enjoy listening to the Mighty Men of Mouse podcast (Disney stuff). On Episode 306 they had a brief discussio..
How I decided between the multitude of travel options to Orlando
For some reason, domestic travel stresses me out more than international travel. Booking the travel, that is. The reasons for this are pretty simple – international travel prese..
Surveying Scotland: Introduction
Two kids creates more than twice the work. That holds true for regular life and travel. Nonetheless, we took it upon ourselves to travel to the United Kingdom to celebrate
On Southwest’s stealth devaluation, and it’s almost booking time for the holidays!
Living squarely in flyover country where we’re an afterthought to legacy carriers (that’s another post), Southwest is our favorite airline for flights to most of the destination..
Award Booking Tips overheard at FT4RL
So I made a rookie mistake presenting at FT4RL – too many slides! I had to rush through a few of my points on booking awards so I thought I’d
Book it! You’ll have plenty of time to procrastinate later.
There’s no good way to spin today’s awful news (which I fist saw on One Mile at a Time) about the Alaska Mileage Plan devaluation for travel on Emirates. As
Delta Award Space is better than you think – much better
tl;dr – there’s a ton of Delta award space but our community’s bias against Delta is probably preventing us from realizing that. All searches were for FOUR people.
Whenever I’m p..
Seven reasons I prefer the Alaska Airlines award search tool to British Airways
British Airways website has long been touted as the go to award search engine for Oneworld award space. I don’t dispute that, but being that I am looking at flights
Making Lemonade: A Guide to ‘Standard’ Awards
While we’d all like to think we can redeem our miles only for Saver Level seats on the best airlines out there with stopovers galore while getting approximately 29 cents
AA First and Business Class Seats to Chile
If you have lots of AA miles and might want a trip to Chile (or somewhere in South America that you can get to from Santiago) next year, stop reading
Using AA miles beyond flight awards
We tend to do dumb things in the miles-and-points game or hobby. By we, I mean me. Specifically when it comes t0 booking hotels. I plan trips way in advance
Delta Skymiles are not Useless
Delta gets a bad rap, and rightfully so. Delta miles are difficult to use, they switched to a revenue based system first, etc. etc. yada yada yada. Despite all that,
Award booking fish tales: The ones that got away!
We see lots of analogies made in this miles-and-points game (or hobby, The Hobby or Obsession as may apply), but I think the one that best fits when it comes
The AA awards you should book ASAP
There have been a couple of good blog posts on the US/AA merger this week: Gary covered the timing of AA migrating all US flights over to AA starting next
Ready for tomorrow’s Southwest schedule extension?
On Tuesday, June 30th, Southwest is opening their schedule for bookings through March 8, 2016. This extension (from the current schedule bookable through January 4) adds a couple..
Family Delta award tickets – maybe the 50K and 60K offers are worth a second look.
This week it was time for me to apply for a new Citi card, and I decided to throw in an AMEX card as well. I had planned to open
Booking devaluation free Southwest points travel this week and beyond!
This post might get long and boring, so I’ll save you some time and give you the information you need to know first:
Book your Southwest points travel early and often.