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A look back at 2017 – travel and predictions

This time of year its nice to do a little navel gazing and take a look back at 2017.
A Look Back at 2017 TravelFor me, 2017 was a drastically different

Deals in Action: Disneyland on Points

One hazard of raising kids as a travel hacker is that you raise the bar of surprise. While we try to keep the Deal Kids grounded for Deal Girl’s birthday

Honest Airline Slogans, US Airline Consolidation, Get Points for Southwest’s Snafu

The Weekly Travel News Roundup is a collection of headlines from around the internet that caught the attention of the Tagging Miles team. Content on these blogs do not necessarily

Receive points for Last Week’s Southwest Reservation System Issue

I’m not sure how widely known last week’s Southwest Reservation System Issue was, but I did happen to see random mentions about it on twitter. Thinking back to the flight my

Can you save a seat on Southwest?

This past weekend, my wife and I flew southwest down to Orlando for ResellingDO 5. On the flight home we saw a curious sight: bags were left on a couple

Earn 8,000 bonus miles from Airline Shopping Portals!

It is back to school season, and so it is yet another opportunity to earn extra miles through airline shopping portals! I’ve written a bunch about the power of shopping

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

Dual Door Deplaning, British Airways’ IT Outage, Losing Global Entry, Tons of Southwest!

The Weekly Travel News Roundup is a collection of headlines from around the internet that caught the attention of the Tagging Miles team. Content on these blogs do not necessarily

Southwest’s New Seat

Lately I’m flying Southwest more than I ever imagined. At least I’ve been able to avoid Seat 28B. It comes down to a different value of time. But I’m impressed

Everything About the Southwest Companion Pass

It’s the time of year to talk about the Southwest companion pass, which may be the best airline benefit you can earn from credit cards. (See How Long The Southwest Companion Pass..

The Southwest Saga 2017, 2017 Predictions, 2016 Navel Gazing

The Weekly News Roundup is a collection of headlines from around the internet that caught the attention of the Tagging Miles team. Content on these blogs do not necessarily reflect

Amazing SPG Transfer Opportunity, or is it?

There has been much ink spilled on the amazing SPG Transfer opportunity to Virgin America, and onward to Alaska to get a whopping 1:1.652 transfer ratio by the end.

Well, on

Southwest Companion Pass and Corporate Responsibility

Today we learn of news of Southwest’s changes to the Southwest Companion Pass, and how the needed 110,000 Rapid Rewards points are calculated, or rather, what points count, and w..

Are Southwest Points worthwhile, with a Chase Sapphire Reserve?

A friend of mine MilesWhip pointed out to me a rather significant development with the Chase Sapphire Reserve. He pointed out that Southwest Points are no longer valuable if you ..

Cuba’s hot now, is Pacific travel the next thing? Plus more on the Chase Sapphire Reserve!

The Weekly News Roundup is a collection of headlines from around the internet that caught the attention of the Tagging Miles team. Content on these blogs do not necessarily reflect

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..

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

Hertz Gold Rewards is My New Luv

In travel hacking you learn something new everyday. Today I learned that Hertz Gold Rewards, a program I formerly thought was fool’s gold, is actually a gold mine. I’ve long bl..

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