points and miles

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 …

One of the strange things that happens when you’ve been collecting points and miles long enough is that eventually, one of your favorite credit cards disappears. Not from your wallet. …

The Marriott Bonvoy program’s Terms and Conditions webpage scrolls on seemingly forever. When your program encompasses dozens of different brands worldwide, there are endless exceptions and carve-outs that need to …

I’m going to start at the beginning, which, as I’ve heard, is a very good place to start. I’d been planning my wife Sharon’s milestone birthday trip for months. And …