airline miles

Black Friday is here, bringing a frenzy of sales from nearly every retailer imaginable. Once a one-day affair, Black Friday has evolved into a week-long (or longer) sales extravaganza, seamlessly…

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…