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Last year I predicted that award space to Air New Zealand would be much improved in 2016, especia

American Express added Etihad Guest miles as its 17th airlines transfer today. You can send Membership Rewards in increments of 1,000 points to Etihad miles at a 1:1 rate.   Etihad Guest is…

Qatar Airways First Class on its A380 is available nearly every day between Paris and Doha and widely available between Doha and Bangkok.

Club Carlson is offering up to 50,000 bonus Gold Points on eligible stays completed through July 31, 2016. Club Carlson is the loyalty program of these brands. You earn bonus points for two, five,…

Delta is offering discounted flat bed Business Class awards to Europe this summer on select routes. The East Coast and Midwest routes are 105,000 miles + taxes roundtrip. The West Coast routes are…

You can now use Malaysia Airlines miles to book Emirates Economy and Business Class. Malaysia Airlines is a 1:1 transfer partner of Citi ThankYou Points.  Malaysia Airlines started up a partnership…

Update: I used this trick successfully. Here was my experience. As I led a session at the Chicago Seminars this weekend on "Special Awards," someone chimed in with an intriguing tip: There is a…

The current sign-up bonus available to the public for the Alaska Airlines Visa Signature® Card is 25,000 Alaska Airlines miles upon approval. There are higher offers out there however, and the…

Delta will no longer charge a $25 per passenger fee to book tickets by phone. That's excellent news since some Delta partners like Air Tahiti Nui can't be booked on delta.com. In February 2015,…

It is cheaper to book the exact same United flights to Hawaii with Singapore KrisFlyer miles than with United miles. United charges 22,500 miles each way in economy and 40,000 miles in First Class…

Update 4/13/16: Expert Mode was down for weeks, but now it is up and working again.

You can now redeem American Airlines miles to the Indian Subcontinent via Cathay Pacific or American Airlines flights that connect in Hong Kong. Until today, you could only connect in Europe or the…

Effective immediately, you can transfer SPG Starpoints to Virgin Elevate points at a 1:1 rate. Like all 1:1 partners of SPG, you get 5,000 bonus miles for every 20,000 points transferred, so 20,000…

Registration is open for IHG’s 2016 Share Forever promotion, which offers bonuses for stays from May 1 to September 5, 2016.

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You can book yourself a tour around Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia stopping in four places for only 100,000 miles total with nearly half the trip in a flat bed. By stopping in four…

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. I tweet from…

BA.com is not showing Royal Jordanian award space.

I have Global Entry. For $100, the time it took to fill out a detailed form (an hour), and a twenty minute interview at an international airport, I can skip the immigration and customs lines every…

Forget paying 110,000 United miles one way for Lufthansa First Class. You can book the same flight for 40,000 points + $203 (and there is even a way to avoid the $203.) Lufthansa First Class flying…

American Airlines offers discounted MileSAAver awards within the United States and Canada to select cardholders, including people with the Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World Elite™ MasterCard®, the…

Transfers of Citi ThankYou Points to Virgin Atlantic miles will have a 25% bonus through 11:59 PM ET today (April 6, 2016.) This is a fantastic deal that sets up a chance to book one way awards to…

Turkish Business Class award space is widely available from this summer through the beginning of next year to Europe.

You can book yourself a tour around the Caribbean and South America stopping in three places for only 64,500 miles total with half the trip in a flat bed. By stopping in three places, I am referring…

Last month I wrote about sweet spots on the new devalued American Airlines award chart.