50,000 Hawaiian Mile Sign Up Bonus, and How to Use Them

Log into your Hawaiian Miles account or create one and log in. You should see an offer of 50,000 bonus Hawaiian Miles after spending $1,000 in the first 90 days on a new Hawaiian Airlines World Elite MasterCard from Barclaycard. The offer expires November 30, 2015.

This offer is a big improvement on the normal 35,000 mile sign up bonus on the card.

Trip Report: Emirates A380 First Class Suite and Bed

Trip Report Index

Emirates Lounge Zurich
Emirates A380 First Class from Zurich to Dubai
Emirates First Class Lounge Dubai
Emirates A380 First Class from Dubai to Houston: Seat, Suite, Entertainment Amenity Kit, Pajamas, Bed, Sleeping
Emirates A380 First Class from Dubai to Houston: Onboard Bars
Emirates A380 First Class from Dubai to Houston: Food
Emirates A380 First Class from Dubai to Houston: Shower Spa

I have broken my 16 hour flight from Dubai to Houston into four parts because I had over 200 photos and several videos from the flight.

57 Free Award Wallet Upgrade Codes

In honor of my favorite bus route in Hawaii, enjoy one of these 57 free upgrade codes to six months of Award Wallet Plus. Award Wallet is the free way I track my 33 miles and points balances and store my login information for those programs.

Read more about Award Wallet.
Sign up for Award Wallet.

Here are the extra features of Award Wallet Plus:

These Award Wallet code giveaways sometimes get complaints. Unfortunately I don’t think there is any way to improve them.

Anatomy of an Award: India to United States in Etihad First Class Apartment

In May, I booked myself an award in an Etihad A380 First Class Apartment for January 2016. I am looking forward to flying the spacious suite with a couch/bed and separate seat from Abu Dhabi to New York.

Three American Cities to Lima, Peru for $454+

I tweeted this deal first from @MileValueAlerts. Follow @MileValueAlerts on Twitter andfollow these directions to get a text message every time I tweet from that account.

American Airlines Awards to US and Canada for 8,750 Miles

Key Link

The Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World Elite™ MasterCard® offers 75,000 bonus American Airlines miles after spending $7,500 in the first three months
The list of discounted American Airlines economy awards within the United States and Canada

American Airlines offers discounted MileSAAver awards within the United States and Canada to select cardholders. All the cards you're likely to have because they're the ones with the big sign up bonuses and best benefits qualify for 7,500 mile discounts on certain roundtrip economy awards.

Every two months, American Airlines publishes a list of new destinations in the United

American Airlines Awards to US and Canada for 8,750 Miles

Key Link

The Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World Elite™ MasterCard® offers 75,000 bonus American Airlines miles after spending $7,500 in the first three months
The list of discounted American Airlines economy awards within the United States and Canada

American Airlines offers discounted MileSAAver awards within the United States and Canada to select cardholders. All the cards you're likely to have because they're the ones with the big sign up bonuses and best benefits qualify for 7,500 mile discounts on certain roundtrip economy awards.

Every two months, American Airlines publishes a list of new destinations in the United

How to Be Targeted to Get 91,000 Korean SkyPass Miles

Korean SkyPass offers co-branded business and personal credit cards to Americans through US Bank. The standard sign up bonus on the cards is a paltry 15,000 miles.

Because of the small sign up bonus, if you want Korean miles, you're normally better off getting a card that earns Ultimate Rewards or SPG Starpoints and then transferring them to Korean miles.

American Express Offers Free FICO Score

American Express is offering real FICO scores for free to cardholders. Get yours here. Barclaycard, Citi, and Discover already offer real FICO scores for free to cardholders, so by now everyone who opens rewards credit cards should have free access to their real FICO score.

Your FICO score is the main or one of the main factors in all decisions lenders make about whether to extend you credit, how much, and on what terms. Watch it. Guard it. Keep it high.