Two years ago today, Joe and I started Tagging Miles. It has been an awesome two years! So, I want to take this as an opportunity to say Thank You for 2 years of Tagging Miles to all of our wonderful readers, as well as the awesome Saverocity Team!! I’ve really enjoyed writing over the past two years, and…
I shared the below as part of my remarks at the Travel Hacker 101 Meet-up that I co-hosted with Richard Kerr. If you aren’t a member of the Travel Hacking 101 Facebook Group, you are missing out. A new world, with AAdvantage Program ChangesWe all gather here today, to celebrate the amazing life, of the Mileage…
A couple of days ago I had an interesting conversation that turned toward manufactured spending, with my friend, who runs the Facebook Group Travel Hacking 101.He had shared the news about the AAdvantage program changes and asked the group whether that would lead to loyalty changes. He then followed up to say that he’ll continue…
American Airlines AAdvantage changed their program yesterday, and while the revenue based earning isn’t great, it was their introduction of Elite Qualifying Dollars that makes it just to hard for me to justify continuing to chase elite status.After much consideration, and staring at yellow painted walls, I’ve come to the conclusion that there is only…
Back in February, I saw the movie Everest while flying back from Iceland (in economy of all things). I found the movie to be the right level of background, plot development, and emotion. You see, Everest is based on a true story of the 1996 hiking season, and a Rob Hall led expedition to make it…
Note: I had originally submitted this as an OpEd to the Washington Post last week (to the great support of many – Thank you!) Alas, the Washington Post chose not to run it, so I thought I’d share it here (with a brief update about the TSA Director of Security), especially after reading Gary Leff’s TSA piece, which,…
This may come as a surprise to some, and be common sense to others, but I thought I’d share a brief post about the benefits of one-way awards.You see, the benefit of one-way awards is that you can change the outbound without changing the inbound and vice versa. Sometimes, when you try to change one…
Price mistakes (for products) are a lot like mistake fares. A couple of days ago, I happen to get one of my automated IFTTT alerts about a price mistake reported on Slickdeals. The deal? A Nest 3rd Generation Thermostat for ~$22. Surprisingly, it was still working when I saw it, so I jumped on board…
I included in the weekly a post from Mike, writing for One Mile at a Time, about vacation time in the US. Folks commented on that post, that it was “off topic,” I would argue quite the opposite. Lucky and his team, as well as many of us in the mile and point blogosphere, talk…
It occurs to me that over the past few months we have seen a bunch (but perhaps, not nearly enough) “Amazing Deal” Business Class fares. Examples include: Amazing Deal: ~$1,150 Round Trip Transatlantic Business Class Fares (Departing Dublin) Amazing Deal Alert: Business Class to Paris from $1347 Round Trip Amazing Deal: Business Class to Asia…