Right now, awards:

booked with United miles
between the United States and Europe
for flights in January, February, and March 2015
on partner airlines
cost only 57,500 miles each way in Business Class

That's the same price that awards booked on United's own flights cost, and 12,500 miles off the normal price for Business Class awards on United partners--70,000 miles each way.

I have been monitoring what I believe to be an un-announced sale (rather than a glitch) closely because I am looking to book myself an award in Business Class from the United States to Seville

I just got an email today from Starwood Preferred Guest announcing up to a 25% discount on the purchase of Starpoints.

A friend passed along an article from Time.com that advocates doing something I've done a few times, but not described:

You can often get a cheaper price on a cash ticket if you book the ticket in foreign currency through airline's website designed for use by people in another country.

Update 7/28/16: The Prestige's offer has been improved to 40,000 bonus points after $4,000 in purchases in the first 3 months.

The Washington Post has an interesting poll running right now. It's really just one question about what you call the commercial airport closest to DC.

Beneath that, there are several demographic questions that I'm sure they'll try to correlate your answer like how old you are, where you grew up, and how often you fly out of that airport that we're trying to figure out what to call.

I grew up in Fredericksburg, VA, which is about equidistant from said airport, Dulles, and Richmond International Airport.

United is offering a 20% discount on roundtrip Saver economy awards booked this month to Hawaii, Mexico, and several ski and warm weather destinations in the continental United States.

I gave a well-received presentation on Trick Awards at the Chicago Seminars in October.

The presentation dealt with free one ways, negative price one ways, open jaws, stopovers, avoiding fuel surcharges, and award chart SUPER sweet spots.

Enjoy!

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Longtime reader Cave Man is offering one lucky reader a $51 Southwest gift card.

Southwest gift cards are fully transferable and don't expire. There are two ways to enter, and you can enter both ways.

Some credit card offers in this post have expired, but they might come back. If they do they will appear --> Click here for the top current credit card sign up bonuses.

Bri wrote in her Free Credit Card Consultation:
2 passengers, to Lima, Peru. Anytime in July 2015 (hopefully stay 2 weeks). I would love to fly business class but I would like to err on the side of opening just 1 card, if possible. My friend is willing to also open a card.

After 2.5 years, I finally spruced the place up a little bit. Thanks to Million Mile Secrets for letting me steal his theme for a few years, but now I've got my own. ;)

Almost all the changes are cosmetic. Let me walk you through a few of them.

First, you probably noticed that you got a pop up when you came to the site today. Sorry for the minor annoyance.