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Southwest Airlines and Chase are back with elevated welcome offers on all three personal Southwest Rapid Rewards credit cards. This time, the offers are not identical. The more expensive the …

Every year, I do a recap of where we actually stayed — not which hotel program we think we like best, not which one has the most valuable elite benefits, …

Once you’ve been collecting credit cards long enough, one of them will eventually be discontinued. The bank stops accepting new applications, the card disappears from the website, and suddenly you’re …

I’m used to seeing flights get more expensive as departure gets closer. This time, the opposite happened. I’m usually better about booking our summer flights earlier than this, but work …

Groceries are one of the biggest recurring expenses for most households, which makes supermarket spending one of the easiest places to earn meaningful rewards from your credit cards. While there …

After our United flight to Frankfurt turned around mid-flight and stranded us back in Washington D.C., the compensation process was almost as confusing as the disruption itself. If you’ve been …

Citi is about to eliminate one of the most useful features in the ThankYou Rewards ecosystem — and if you’ve been using a two-player strategy to maximize points, you may …

I finally had a reason to try the Bilt Travel portal. And honestly, I expected it to be worse. When Bilt first launched its revamped travel portal, I took a …

JetBlue is one of the airlines we fly most often, largely because they have so many nonstop flights from our home airport in Orlando. Even as the airline industry keeps …

After surviving a Lufthansa strike and scrambling to rebook our flights to Germany, I thought the hard part was over. It wasn’t. In Part 1 of this saga, I explained …