airline miles

Most people who redeem frequent flyer miles for an airline ticket initially do so to travel on the airline that sponsors the program. For example, SkyMiles members book a flight …

When searching for flights, you may come across amazing deals that are difficult to resist. For instance, when I planned our vacation to Iceland, I found a round-trip ticket from …

Delta SkyMiles is the loyalty program people love to hate. It’s been an industry leader in making customer-unfriendly moves, such as changing award prices with no warning (and claiming that …

Every once in a while, I’ll see a post about a credit card from an airline outside the United States. The card is from a bank in the U.S. and …

I recommend earning transferrable points rather than points in a single loyalty program. For instance, I would prefer earning Chase Ultimate Rewards points over points with Aeroplan, Hyatt, or United. …

Until recently, most airlines had a policy of expiring their customers’ miles if there was no activity in their accounts. However, even before the pandemic, many airlines discontinued this policy. …

Once you start trying to use airline miles to book international award travel, you quickly discover that flexibility is the key to finding award flights. There’s more than one way …

Both Delta and Alaska have policies where, if you’ve flown on their respective airlines and your luggage isn’t at baggage claim within 20 minutes, they’ll give you something for the …

It was challenging to remember the mileage expiration policies of airline miles before coronavirus. Every airline has announced a different date when they will once again say accounts are inactive …