Award Travel

When it comes to using credit cards to pay for travel, earning points is the easy part. Booking award travel is where the process gets complicated. This post is about …

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 …

The simplest round-trip airfare consists of flying to one city and then flying back from the arriving airport to your origin airport. An example would be flying from New York …

As bloggers, we take pride in helping our friends collect points and miles. It brings us great joy when they plan their first award trip. As a mentor, I occasionally …

Eight months ago, I started planning our visit to Southeast Asia. The trip was centered around a package tour of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia with Adventures by Disney. All of …

Sharon and I traveled a bit in 2022. While we spent plenty of time away from home, we didn’t write about some of our trips because we weren’t visiting the …

When it comes to airline frequent flyer programs, earning points is the easy part. Redeeming those points for free travel (or mostly free travel) is the difficult part. Not only …

When it comes to booking award tickets on American Airlines, I’ll admit I’m not an expert. While we fly on American’s planes at least one or more times a year, …

I spent time this holiday weekend looking for flights to Southeast Asia for early next year. I had a deadline because the Singapore Airlines award price increase went into effect …

I’m deep into the planning of our first Asia trip in years. The first thing I forgot was that flying from the East Coast to Asia takes a long time. I …