Until May 31, 2015, you can buy between 10,000 and 55,000 Hyatt Gold Passport Points and get a 40% bonus on the number of points you purchase.

Hyatt points normally cost 2.4 cents each.

Congrats to Ty, a commenter below, for being selected as the winner. He tells me he has successfully applied with my $100. I will be giving away at least one more of these prizes in the future. Keep checking MileValue.

Global Entry is amazing. If you apply and are accepted into the program, you can cut the immigration and customs lines every time you enter the United States for five years.

Citi offers you the chance to create Virtual Account Numbers for any of your credit cards to add an extra level of security for online purchases.

You can set how long you want a new virtual account

The Citi ThankYou® Premier Card changed its 3x categories to gas and travel on April 19. I covered just how broad those categories are in this post at the time.

Gas and travel purchases that earn 3 ThankYou Points per dollar include:

airlines
hotels
car rental agencies
travel agencies
gas stations
commuter transportation
taxi/limousines
passenger railways
cruise lines
bridge and road tolls
parking lots/garages
campgrounds and trailer parks
time shares
bus lines
motor home/RV Rental and boat rentals

At the time of the change, I hoped that Uber fell into the taxi/limousines category.

I just spent a completely legal week in Cuba, split between Havana and Viñales. An American in Cuba in 2015 is a six part series on the trip.

Still alive at 11:42 AM ET on May 7, though fewer dates than at midnight.

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.

Avianca LifeMiles is running a 2 x 1 sale on the purchase of their miles through May 29, 2015. You can buy up to 75,000 LifeMiles during the sale and get up to 75,000 bonus miles.

LifeMiles cost 3.3 cents each, so with a 100% bonus, you get the miles for 1.65 cents each.

This is the eleventh post in a monthlong series that started here. Each post will take about two minutes to read and may include an action item that takes the reader another two minutes to complete. I am writing this for an audience of people who know nothing about frequent flyer miles, and my goal is that by the end, you know enough to fly for free anywhere you want to go.
Why Collect Alaska Airlines Miles?
Alaska Airlines miles are great for booking Emirates First Class and Cathay Pacific First Class.

Citi ThankYou Points transfer 1:1 to 12 types of airline miles. If you transfer your points to miles, they become those miles with all the related rules, restrictions, and award charts. Transferring ThankYou Points to miles is the main alternative to using them like cash toward any flight.

Two weeks ago, several blogs reported that transfers from Citi ThankYou Points to Etihad Guest miles made before May 15, 2015 would have a 25% bonus.

To me, this was huge news because this was the first transfer bonus of Citi ThankYou Points to airline miles.

Via The Points Guy, Delta has posted blackout dates for award travel on the following three partners online:

China Airlines (hub: Taipei)
China Southern (hub: Guangzhou)
Korean Airlines (hub: Seoul)

The blackout dates announced for 2015 and 2016 are as follows:

Don't shoot the messenger, me or Delta. These have always been the enforced blackout dates for trying to use Delta miles to fly these partners.