For most of the last few years, booking Business or First Class awards to Australia or New Zealand with American Airlines miles has been very difficult. But as part of the deluge of premium cabin award space we saw six weeks ago, award space opened up on American Airlines' routes from Los Angeles to Sydney and Auckland.

That award space is mostly gone.

The Miles & More® Premier World MasterCard® comes with 20,000 bonus Lufthansa Miles & More miles after first purchase and 30,000 more after spending $5,000 in the first 90 days for 50,000 total bonus miles.

The card also comes with two complimentary Lufthansa Business Lounge vouchers annually.

The card earns 2 miles per dollar on ticket purchases made directly from Miles & More integrated airlines and 1 mile per dollar on all other purchases.

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Today Barclaycard announced the issuance of four new JetBlue credit cards.

Until recently American Express issued the JetBlue credit card. Barclaycard has taken over the contract. When a contract like that switches, a number of transitions are possible. In this case, American Express JetBlue cards are being converted to Barclaycards called "The JetBlue Rewards Card," a card for which no can directly apply.

Get 1,000 United miles just for signing up for MileagePlus dining. Get another 500 miles per qualifying restaurant visit in the next two months up to an additional 2,500 bonus miles.

These aren't huge miles, but they are easy to get, since signing up will just take a few minutes and is free.

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In early 2015, I booked an awesome award that would have allowed me to see Bangkok, Dubai, and Egypt while flying Etihad and Emirates First Class.

American Airlines is increasing the number of miles needed for most awards--including huge increases in First Class--on March 22, 2016.

You can only get the bonus on American Express credit and charge cards once per lifetime.

Later today, an Alaska Airlines flight from Anchorage to Honolulu will intercept a total solar eclipse, much to the delight of the 163 passengers on board.

That's not by accident. Alaska Airlines altered the flight schedule and will alter the flight path to catch almost two minutes of the eclipse in flight after being alerted of the possibility by a veteran eclipse chaser. In fact over a dozen eclipse chasers got window seats on the flight for the rare opportunity.