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This review is a continuation of my huge US Airways redemption that I wrote about back in this post.

Cyber Monday is the Black Friday of online shopping. Many airlines and hotels are participating with discounted airfare and hotel stays if you book today.

November 2013 was a relaxing month for me. I traded in airplanes for bicycles and hostels for my own bed. For the first time all year, I spent an entire month inside the US. November was a huge month…

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours from MileValue! Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year, and only partly because it's the only day when I consume two heaping plates of some of my absolute…

A few weeks ago, I discussed Flying Blue Promo Awards at length. Flying Blue is the loyalty program of Air France and KLM, the Dutch flag carrier. Every few months, a rotating list of discounted…

Register all your American Express credit and charge cards today, spend $10 on each one this Saturday November 30 at a small business, and receive a $10 statement credit on each card. This is the…

Update: The giveaway is closed. Congrats to the winners of all 7 passes. (Two more were generously donated in the comments.) Generous reader Sam has donated five lounge passes that expire in the next…

Huge Hat Tip to reader Daniel for emailing me about this deal. Email me your tips! Today the AAdvantage eShopping portal tripled the earning rate on magazines.com to 60 American Airlines miles per…

Long time reader Les forwarded me his targeted offer for a Gold Delta SkyMiles Credit Card from American Express: 50,000 bonus miles after spending $1k in three months. The normal offer is only 30k…

The 50k mile bonus offer is back on the Lufthansa card mentioned in this post until 6/30/14.

The American Airlines Explorer Award is an incredible use of miles. An Explorer Award is a distance-based award that allows multiple stopovers, so it's a versatile award perfect for globetrotters on…

I just booked two clients of the MileValue Award Booking Service a roundtrip award in business class to Lusaka, Zambia and added on a free oneway to Alaska several months later. The award cost 120k…

United, Lufthansa, US Airways, Air Canada, ANA, Singapore, and TACA/Avianca are all members of the Star Alliance. With few exceptions, all of their miles can be used with equal access to any Star…

A few weeks ago I flew Boston to Zurich in Swiss business class. It was my first flight on a whirlwind trip to Asia. I documented the trip's booking in this post. I was excited to try out Swiss'…

American Airlines is offering 2,500 bonus AAdvantage miles if you spend $250 or more in its online portal between now and December 2, 2013. Spend $75 to $149 and get 750 miles Spend $150 to $249…

Very interesting comments. I think there's been an easing and more Lufthansa space is bookable with US Airways miles, but certainly not all as the original article and post title suggest. US Airways…

United massively devalued its award chart two weeks ago, especially for premium cabin international awards on partner airlines, which have been the bulk of my United awards. I caught some flak…

I've written several posts about Explorer Awards from American Airlines. My favorites are: American Airlines Explorer Award: The Rules The Start of My Anatomy of an Award Series on a Real Explorer…

Rocketmiles is back with another excellent promotion. First time customers who book a hotel room by November 30, 2013 and check out by April 1, 2014 will receive 3,000 bonus United miles on top of…

Many of the offers originally published below have expired and been removed.

The newest Membership Rewards airline partner is Emirates Skyward miles.

According to Bloomberg, AA/US have reached a deal with the Department of Justice, so that the latter will stop objecting to the merger. I've long maintained that I expected the merger to happen.

Some of the card offers below have expired so their links are removed. Click here for the top current credit card sign up bonuses. Barclaycard is now offering cardmembers their real FICO credit score…

United has announced a 20% discount on economy class awards from the US to Europe: Roundtrip awards booked between now an November 19, 2013 for flights flown between January 13 and March 11, 2014…

These offers have expired so their links have been removed. Click here for the top current credit card sign up bonuses. Recently, United and Delta have devalued their award charts. At the same time,…