I just booked myself a $1,233 economy flight from Hawaii to Chicago for 17,500 Singapore miles and $5.

You probably already have the miles I used, so you're only a 10 minute phone call away from a trip to Hawaii that costs thousands of miles fewer than it "should."

The basic idea is that you don't want to use United, American Airlines, or Delta miles to fly to Hawaii. You want to use their planes, but you want to book those flights with miles issued by foreign airlines, which for whatever reason, offer far cheaper award prices to

Flying Blue–the loyalty program of Air France/KLM, Air Europa, Kenya Airways, and TAROM Romanian–has released its newest Promo Awards that let you fly from select American cities to anywhere in Europe or to Israel, Morocco, Tunisia, or Algeria for as 18,750 miles each way in economy plus tiny fuel surcharges.

Flying Blue is a 1:1 transfer partner of ThankYou Points, Membership Rewards and Starpoints.

These Flying Blue Promo Awards must be booked by August 31, 2016 for travel in October or November 2016. This is not the strongest list we have seen (occasionally Promo awards are 50% off

If you have an American Express Hilton HHonors™ Card or an American Express Hilton HHonors™ Surpass® Card than you can earn 5,000 bonus Hilton points for charging a two night stay to your card at any Hilton hotel. Read the full details for the promotion here.

What To Do For The 5,000 Point Bonus
1. Register here

2. Stay at Hilton hotel for at least two nights (only paid stays count) by October 31, 2016.

3. Charge it to your American Express Hilton HHonors™ Card or American Express Hilton HHonors™ Surpass® Card

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Recently I reviewed the improved offer on the Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World Elite™ MasterCard®, which now offers 60,000 bonus American Airlines after spending $5,000 in the first three months.

The Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World Elite™ MasterCard® offers American Airlines lounge access, but comes with a $450 fee.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what about a video?
We all need inspiration for our next adventure-- or at the least, a little distraction. All of the Snapchat accounts below will provide you with plenty of both as their owners scamper around the globe capturing it all via multi-second videos.
To quickly follow any of the people below, just open your Snapchat camera and take a picture of the Snapcodes below (the yellow dotted square with the ghost).

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You all know what Uber is. It introduced and popularized the concept of an online ridesharing service to the world. If you haven't heard of Lyft yet, it is also an online ridesharing service, accessed via mobile app, that has emerged as the second strongest contender in the game. At their cores the two ridesharing services are very similar products. Both were founded in San Francisco, and both applications connect people via a mobile online application in need of a ride to (certified) drivers willing to give it to them.

Singapore Airlines is altering its routes to the United States in October 2016. Currently, Singapore flies from four American cities to Singapore with stops along the way in Europe and Asia.

San Francisco to Seoul (ICN) to Singapore
San Francisco to Hong Kong to Singapore
Los Angeles to Tokyo (NRT) to Singapore
Houston to Moscow (DME) to Singapore
New York (JFK) to Frankfurt to Singapore

Singapore is making several changes though.

The landscape for credit card approvals, and more importantly, getting cards' bonuses has changed during years I've been in the game.

Let’s talk about transferring Ultimate Rewards to airline partners for redeeming on domestic awards. This is part one in a series that will allow you to master redeeming awards within the United States, no matter what kind of points or miles you might have.

For those of you that have already read the first post in this series, you will notice repeat information at points in this post (as well as the rest of them to follow) because some of the airline partners overlap between transferrable points programs. 
“How to Maximize Domestic