travel rewards

Airlines have dramatically changed their policies regarding the expiration of points in loyalty programs. Previously, almost every plan required some activity in your account to keep your points active. There’s …

If you’ve been paying attention, you know that it’s a good idea to distribute your points across various rewards programs. If you’ve been doing this for some time, you probably …

Even before we started writing Your Mileage May Vary, our friends and family would ask how we could travel as much as we did to so many places while managing …

If you travel more than once or twice a year, you might become interested in hotel loyalty programs. Through a hotel program, you’ll earn points, which you can use for …

I’m not usually one to brag, but I was into HawaiianMiles before it was cool. Sure, there are a bunch of people talking about how you should take advantage of …

When it comes to determining what points are worth, I’m reminded of the phrase about opinions (I won’t quote the whole phrase because we try to remain family friend here. …

Major hotel brands have loyalty programs where you earn points for your stays, and these points can be used for free nights. Additionally, achieving status by accumulating qualifying stays with …

Airline loyalty programs have two main parts that serve different purposes. The first part is all about earning points for free flights, which I’ll call the “awards side.” The other …

I grew up in New Jersey, so I kind of didn’t know for a long time that it was possible to drive any distance on a highway without paying a …

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 …