Have you accumulated tens or hundreds of thousands of miles, but you just can’t figure out how to use them? Would you like award alerts that get you straight to

Just a quick update on what I’m up to points and miles wise.  As I’ve mentioned in the past, I’ve pretty much ceased all MS (occasionally relying on Kiva) and

We recently booked International travel and decided to put the flight on to ‘Standby for Upgrade’ using miles.   Firstly, I didn’t know that this could be done, so maybe

I’ve been hearing constantly how the points and miles game is a dead duck, so I started thinking about what’s different in my world.  Thinking about points and miles today,

Recently FreequentFlyer wrote a post on hacking business travel.  You should read it, it’s good.  However, there’s a few conceptual points I’d like to address when it comes to bu..

“It’s dead. What’s next?”A phrase that we hear increasingly these days in the world of travel hacking.  But what is this world, and how do you fit into it?  Over the

Funny money can be found in the form of points/miles/cash like points/resort credit and whatnot.  Interestingly, the default approach to valuing ‘funny money’ is that is worth le..

In this post I’d like to attempt to merge two topics from the forum, and add in a little more food for thought.  The overall topic that we will be

You might find it handy to delete your DM chain on twitter from time to time.  I found it quite hard to do on a mobile device, but via the

Sun Tzu believed that wins should be quickly earned, and the real skill of a commander is in the ability to assess the opponent, and the opportunity for victory.
The war

Travel Planning has been backburnered recently, but we have deadlines looming, here’s the state of affairs.
Booked

Trip 1 NCL Escape from Miami (Dec)
Trip 2 Aruba (Feb)
Trip 3 N..

Last night on Twitter we were discussing how mind blowingly knowledgeable HaleyB is on Disney.  I thought to myself, even after reading her presentation from FT4RL that I still j..

Have you ever wondered why other people are so dumb and you’re such a genius? Happens to me all the time.  I remember looking at some guys out there that

I almost paid cash for a ticket. Holy moly!  By cash I mean AA eGift cards.  Luckily I managed to find some interesting things in the award charts, and wanted