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You all know what Uber is. It introduced and popularized the concept of an online ridesharing service to the world. If you haven't heard of Lyft yet, it is also an online ridesharing service,…

Singapore Airlines is altering its routes to the United States in October 2016. Currently, Singapore flies from four American cities to Singapore with stops along the way in Europe and Asia. San…

The landscape for credit card approvals, and more importantly, getting cards' bonuses has changed during years I've been in the game.

Let’s talk about transferring Ultimate Rewards to airline partners for redeeming on domestic awards. This is part one in a series that will allow you to master redeeming awards within the United…

British Airways collects fuel surcharges on almost all award redemptions. People constantly complain to me that their recent "free ticket" cost $650 or $1,000 or more in "taxes." In fact, taxes make…

Although United offers no stopovers on one way awards, the airline allows one stopover on roundtrip awards in addition to your destination. This can lead to all sorts of outsized value: You can see…

The brand new PointBreaks list allows us to book hotel rooms through October 31, 2016 for $30 per night. Even if you’ve read other posts on the PointBreaks list, read this.

From now through September 19, 2016 you can earn 2,500 SPG points for adding an authorized user to your Starwood Preferred Guest®Credit Card from American Express.

United is giving away one billion miles to Untited Mileage Plus members in a sweepstakes.  The only condition is that you are a United Mileage Plus member. How to Enter the Sweepstakes Between August…

Travel from San Francisco, San Jose, and New York City to  Seoul, Hong Kong, and Tokyo for $399 in Air China economy.

Please welcome Sarah Page Maxwell as the newest member of the MileValue team. She will write several articles a week of the type you already enjoy on MileValue. She'll also bring her own voice and…

T-Mobile's basic, contract-free, $50 plan offers free data and text messages in 140+ countries. I have had it for a few years, and I have been happy with it. Unfortunately the free data abroad is at…

Let’s talk about transferring ThankYou Points to airline partners for redeeming on domestic awards. This is part one in a series that will allow you to master redeeming awards within the United…

I am re-publishing this post as a reminder that as of October 1, 2016, Delta Skymiles prices for Business Class awards between North American and Australia, Asia, Africa, and South America are…

The Citi Prestige® Card 50k offer expired. You can find the current 40k offer here: Citi Prestige® Card I've deleted all links from the rest of the post since it is out of date.…

Unless you live under a rock, you've probably heard about the phenomenon called Pokemon GO. It's creating quite a stir as people run around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to bag rare…

The Citi Prestige® Card is one of the top all around cards for its 40,000 point sign up bonus, perks, and bonus categories.

The Citi Prestige® Card offers the fourth night free on paid hotel stays if you book through its designated travel agent. This benefit can save you a lot more than 25% on your next hotel stay. 4th…

Right now 40k Starpoints plus taxes will get you a roundtrip economy class trip to Europe, 80k Starpoints will get you a roundtrip Business Class ticket, and 95k will get you a roundtrip First Class…

Flying Blue is the loyalty program of Air France and a 1:1 transfer partner of Chase, American Express, Citi, and SPG. Flying Blue has a number of well-documented sweet spots including 15,000 miles…

Citi ThankYou Points are transferable to one hotel and 12 airline programs.

Most offers in this article have expired. Check out the current best credit card offers here. --------------------------------------------------------------------- American Airlines is releasing a…