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FILTER RESULTS ►Marriott Brings Back Mileage Earning With and Transfers to American AAdvantage, Plus 500 Bonus Miles Per Stay
American Airlines and Marriott Rewards announced a partnership today, restoring a relationship which was severed back in June 2010. Members will be able to earn AAdvantage miles for Marriott stays (rather than Marriott Rewards points) if they wish, and will be able to convert Marriott points to AAdvantage miles. The conversions will take place at [...]Show More Summary
You Can Now Convert Marriott Points to American Airlines Miles (Though the Exchange Rate Is Terrible)
Marriott is now part of the American Airlines Aadvantage program (so you can once again earn AA miles when you stay at Marriott hotels). But the interesting (?) news to come from this is that you can now convert points … Read more »Show More Summary
Maximize the Value of Your Airline Miles and Points
When people learn how much I travel, and how little I pay, they typically want to get in on the deal. And while everyone recognizes that earning points and miles is a challenge, few realize that learning the best way to spend them is at least as important. Show More Summary
This Year's Best and Worst Airlines for Scoring Frequent Flyer Seats
Redeeming your miles or points for a "free" frequent flyer seat isn't the same for all airlines. Some are much easier to score that seat on than others. Updated for 2013, IdeaworksCompany's survey compares the availability of award flights across US and international airlines. Read more...
500 AA miles on Choice Hotel stays April 13-May 25, 2013
Earn 500 American Airlines AAdvantage miles at Choice Hotels (double miles) from April 13-May 25, 2013. This could be a good alternative to collecting 10 points/$1 over the next six weeks on low spend stays. Keep in mind that Choice Privileges offers 8,000 points after 2 stays through May 15, 2013, which is likely a [...]Show More Summary
American Express, Where Carrying A Balance With An 18% APR Is A Perk
Forget airline miles, cash back, rewards points, or any of that rubbish. American Express wants you to remember that the best way to take full advantage of your card is to carry a balance. Over the weekend, the above e-mail popped up in the inboxes of a few Consumerist readers, all of whom seem to be confounded as to why … [More]
Value of Points and Miles is Personalized
Lucky wrote a series of posts this week on One Mile at a Time giving his take on What Airline Miles and Hotel Points are worth. I criticized his hotel points analysis without reading his ‘Introduction’ piece on the four part series where he gives this disclosure: But my main point is simply that everyone’s [...]
What Miles & Points are Worth: Hotel Points
Introduction Credit Card Points Airline Miles Hotel Points While airline miles have maintained their value pretty well the past year, hotel points have taken a real beating in the first quarter of this year. If you’re not aware of all the devaluations that have been going on I suggest reading this post, where I provide [...]Show More Summary
What Miles & Points are Worth: Airline Miles
Introduction Credit Card Points Airline Miles Hotel Points Welcome to what will undoubtedly be the most controversial part of this series. There’s nothing quite as fun as valuing airline miles on the internet, because I’m about to be called an idiot by people that value their miles somewhere between 0.5 and 12.5 cents each. So [...]Show More Summary
What Miles & Points are Worth: Credit Card Points
Introduction Credit Card Points Airline Miles Hotel Points With the introduction out of the way, here are my valuations of Membership Rewards, Ultimate Rewards, and Starwood Preferred Guest points. Yes, I realize Starwood points aren’t typically thought of as one of the major fluid credit card points currencies, though I still put them into this [...]Show More Summary
What Miles & Points are Worth: Introduction
Introduction Credit Card Points Airline Miles Hotel Points Last May I wrote a four part series on the value of miles and points, which many found useful. I was planning on writing a follow up at the one year mark, though I’ve received dozens of requests for an update given how drastically the miles & [...]Show More Summary
Singapore Airlines releases KrisFlyer award chart for travel on Virgin America
Singapore Airlines and Virgin America recently began codesharing, and up until yesterday actually offered an innovative promotion whereby you could double dip and earn both Virgin America Elevate points and KrisFlyer miles for travel on one of their new codeshare flights. Anyway, Singapore Airlines has released their award chart for travel on Virgin America, and [...]Show More Summary
Points.com Giving Away (3) Million Mile Prizes
Via Pizza in Motion, Points.com is giving away (3) sets of prizes of prizes of 1 million miles each. Really I should have known this because they’re making the offer in line with voting in the Freddie Awards (the annual airline, hotel, and credit card loyalty program awards that I help to organize — several [...]Show More Summary
Delta and Starwood Link Points Programs, Travelers Get More Perks
Starwood hotels and Delta Airlines announced a new partnership today that will allow Starwood frequent guests to earn Starpoints when flying Delta, and Delta frequent flyers to earn Delta miles when staying at Starwood's hotels.
Bits ‘n Pieces for January 2, 2013
News and Notes from Around the Interweb: The Pizza in Motion blog is giving away a free roundtrip ticket on American Airlines and also a choice of 25,000 United miles or 25,000 Hyatt points. A good blog, but one that gets less attention, which means chances of winning are likely to be pretty good. Frequent [...]
Win 25,000 Starpoints courtesy of the Starwood American Express!
While I greatly value both airline miles and hotel points, I find hotel points more valuable for holiday travel. That’s because airlines release very little award space over the holidays, while hotel chains like Starwood have no blackout dates on award redemptions, and let you redeem Starpoints for stays as long as a standard room [...]
Wallaby May be Your Wallet’s Best Friend This Holiday
Wallaby is launching on Android today, enabling shoppers to maximize points, airline miles, and cash back simply by showing which cards to use and when.
Wallaby is all about giving you the credit card smarts to optimize each holiday purchase. Show More Summary
Wallaby’s Android App Tells You Which Credit Card To Use To Get The Best Rewards
Wallaby, a startup which had been originally working to develop a universal credit card that optimizes consumers' credit card points, rewards, airline miles and more, recently launched a more simplified version of that concept via an iPhone application. Show More Summary
Strategic Value in the Alitalia Frequent Flyer Program
Head for Points asks if Alitalia has ‘the worst frequent flyer scheme’? Some programs have expiring miles (you have a certain number of years or months to use the points you accumulate). Examples here are Singapore Airlines Krisflyer which gives you 3 years to use miles you’ve earned, and Aeroplan which gives you seven years. [...]
Singapore Airlines now releasing Suites Class award availability to the US!
Last week I wrote about Singapore Airlines’ policy change whereby they’re finally releasing saver award availability in Suites Class to their KrisFlyer members. Up until that point Suites Class was more or less unattainable on miles, so I was really excited to hear about the policy change. The downside is that they weren’t yet releasing [...]
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