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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…

Update: See the comments for reports that fuel surcharges are being collected by JAL on Emirates flights. Yesterday I panned the Emirates frequent flyer program for its exorbitant miles prices and…

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,…

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

The card offers listed in this post have expired, so their links have been removed.

This week I got an email from US Airways offering "An exclusive offer just for [me]:" The offer was a targeted offer to buy up to 50,000 US Airways miles and get a 100% bonus in miles. That means I…

Disclosure: I am getting two one-night stay certificates at U.S. Radissons for hosting this giveaway. I’ll look into giving them away too. This week I ran two posts as part of a giveaway to give each…

Delta really is in a class of its own--and not in a good way! Today it announced that it is devaluing its devaluation. August's devaluation wasn't kicking in quickly enough, so today there is a…

Update: I've booked myself Seoul to Frankfurt to Munich to Toronto to Los Angeles one way for 70k miles. The long legs are in Asiana First Class and Lufthansa First Class. I can check out the First…

I believe the following only 20%, but it's a point of view to consider.

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