American Airlines is releasing a ton of flat bed Business and First Class award space to Paris for two people for Summer 2016. American flies from seven cities to Paris daily over the summer, with easy connections to the seven cities.

Act Now to Save Miles
Right now the awards cost 50,000 miles per person per direction in Business Class or 62,500 miles in First Class. Business Class awards go up in price to 57,500 American Airlines miles one way on March 22, 2016, and First Class goes up to 85,000 miles one way.

Singapore Airlines offers an efficient and convenient way to waitlist Saver award space on most flights in any cabin when Saver space is unavailable.
What is Waitlisting?
Singapore Airlines has three prices for award space in each cabin on each route: Saver, Standard, and Full.

Saver is the cheapest, around one-fifth to one-eighth of the price of Full.

I tweeted this deal first from @MileValueAlerts. Follow @MileValueAlerts on Twitter and follow these directions to get a text message every time I tweet from that account. I tweet from @MileValueAlerts only a few times a month because it is designed to be used only for the best and most limited-time deals–like mistake fares–so that you aren’t bombarded by text messages.

Award space on American Airlines flights has been terrible for months if not years.

Starting June 1, 2016, United will fly daily nonstop between San Francisco and Singapore.

This will be the first nonstop flight between Singapore and the United States since Singapore Airlines dumped routes to Los Angeles and Newark in 2013.

UA1 (flight #1? they must be proud): Depart San Francisco at 11:25 PM, arrive in Singapore at 6:45 AM +2 days
UA2: Depart Singapore at 8:45 AM, arrive in San Francisco at 9:15 AM (the same day)

That's 16:20 westbound and 15:30 eastbound.

You can already search award space on united.com.

Updated 1/29/16 to reflect new Aeroplan award prices effective for awards booked 12/15/15 or later.
Updated 10/6/15 to reflect new ANA award prices effective for awards booked 10/15/15 or later.

In the last few weeks, I have published some comparative charts of Star Alliance award charts. I'm putting all of those charts into this post for easier reference.

You can use any type of Star Alliance miles to book almost any Star Alliance flight. (Swiss, Lufthansa, and Singapore hold back some premium cabin award space for their own members.

American Airlines is releasing a ton of flat bed Business Class award space to

This change takes effect for bookings made February 2 at 5 AM ET or later.

British Avios are great for short, direct, economy awards on flights with no fuel surcharges--but they are getting less great.

The price of an award flight booked with British Airways Avios is determined by only two things: the distance of the flight and the cabin you book. The price of an Avios award is the sum of the prices of each flight segment.

Updated 1/27/16 because the offer ends tomorrow.

United has announced a 20% to 25% discount on economy class awards from the United States to Sydney, Australia:

Roundtrip awards booked between now and January 28, 2016
for flights flown between February 2 and June 22, 2016
on itineraries wholly operated by United and United Express flights
will cost only 60k to 64k miles roundtrip, depending on the days of travel

United has run nearly identical promotions for travel to Europe and South America for the last several years.
United’s Current Promotion

I did a few dummy bookings to test out what’s

I am in the air flying the Etihad First Class Apartment on its A380 from Abu Dhabi to New York.

This is one of the best flights of my life, but "First Class" is a misnomer, since Etihad offers a three room "Residence" on the same flight, making my accommodation technically second class.

For a day, there was a 1% chance in my mind I'd be flying the Residence.

About two days before my flights, I finally sent a direct message on Twitter to American Airlines asking for my Etihad confirmation number, so I could select seats

One of the main reasons why people who don't know how miles work think that miles are a scam is because they searched award space in the wrong place! For instance, they wanted to use American Airlines miles and searched AA.com. While that sounds logical, that's often the wrong place to search. BA.com is often the better place to search.

Knowing how to use BA.com is crucial for making award bookings with British Airways Avios and American Airlines AAdvantage miles.