points and miles

American Express offers a wide variety of cards for both personal and business use. You can choose from co-brand cards with partners like Delta or Marriott, or cards that earn …

When people who have been collecting points and miles for years, or decades, talk to those getting started, they often overlook how things we take for granted are totally new …

Gauntlet thrown! Fodor’s is a publisher of travel guides and online tourism information. It was established by Hungarian Eugene Fodor in 1936 and was meant to be an improvement on …

It was only about a month ago that Citi quietly closed applications for the Citi Rewards+® Card, and now they’ve announced a new addition to the ThankYou Points lineup to …

It’s easy to forget there was a time when you didn’t know how any of this worked — before you cared about elite status, 5x categories, or which programs had …

Like many other Citi Strata Premier cardholders, we recently got an email with some disappointing news. Starting August 24, 2025, the redemption value for cashing out ThankYou Points is being …

It’s been since September 2024 that the American Express EveryDay Preferred and EveryDay cards disappeared from the AMEX website. I wrote about it then because it was odd for AMEX …

Having your credit card account shut down with no warning is the kind of financial gut punch no one wants. Yet for a growing number of Capital One customers, that’s …

One of the biggest internal struggles in travel is that tug-of-war between wanting to pay the least amount possible… and realizing that spending a little more might make your life …

Loyalty programs, whether they belong to airlines, hotels, or credit card issuers, are highly sophisticated data and analytics operations. Before they offer any benefit, they’ve already calculated how much it’ll …