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The Business Gold Rewards Card from American Express OPEN is one of the best credit cards on the market with 30,000 bonus Membership Rewards after spending $5k in three months, several lucrative…

I recently had a chance to fly both a British Airways A380 and a British Airways 787 on intra-European flights in fully-flat business class beds for peanuts. The circumstances of the flights and some…

I recently booked two flights for only $102 total on Asian low-cost carriers. Asian low-cost carriers are so cheap that there are effects on United and American awards you might be considering…

American Airlines' AAdvantage eShopping mall just sent me the following: If I spend $35 of more, I get 2,000 bonus AAdvantage miles on top of the normal mileage earning from the mall. Since I value…

Royal Jordanian award space is now searchable on aa.com. You can now search the following airlines' award space on aa.com: American Alaska British Airways Hawaiian Qantas Royal Jordanian…

US Airways emailed me the following yesterday: It's some slick marketing, but I won't be taking advantage of any of the "new" benefits. I have a US Airways Premier World MasterCard, so you'd think…

You get unlimited stopovers on awards booked with British Airways Avios But you can't get any free oneways on awards booked with British Airways Avios. Huh? How can that be? For some people, those…

Yesterday I booked an award with United miles from Los Angeles to Phuket, Thailand with a later free oneway from Los Angeles to Newark. The award illustrates last-second award searching, problem…

My friend, Ryan from MA, recently took a trip to Italy and Taiwan during which he flew Lufthansa First Class, Asiana First Class, Thai First Class, ANA First Class and entered some of the world’s…

Have you ever been mad at an airline? You probably called customer service, filled out an online form, or tweeted the customer service team. Not Hasan Syed. According to Yahoo!: [Mr.

If you apply for both the personal and business card today, you'll have 60k Starpoints after meeting the minimum spending requirement after meeting the minimum spending requirement of $5k per card in…

American Airlines' website is a great place to search for oneworld award space, especially on oneworld partners such as airberlin, Qantas, and Finnair. American's site is also useful for searching…

Update: Several--if not all--of these offers have expired.

I am a lodging cheapskate. My ideal trip length is four weeks, so hotel bills would add up quickly. Right now I haven't been in the US since February, so I've had to come up with creative ways to…

Update: American Airlines got rid of its RTW awards, so the best way to book RTW awards now is elucidated here. Key Links: Citi® / AAdvantage® Platinum Select® MasterCard® Starwood Preferred Guest®…

American Airlines has a great promotional award price to Hawaii this fall of only 15,000 miles each way in economy if you book by September 13 and fly September 11 to December 17. Waikiki, December…

If you have a stash of Star Alliance frequent flyer miles, United.com is a great place to start planning your award trip, but it's far from perfect. I've detailed in the past how United's site will…

Fuel dumping, at least among people searching for a deal, is the practice of purchasing a ticket in such a way that fuel surcharges are not added. Paid tickets have three components: base fare,…

Maybe some booze will make your next economy flight more bearable! Super-generous Jeff wants to give away his Southwest drink coupons. He has eight coupons that expire December 31, 2013, all of which…

British Airways' two daily flights between New York-JFK and London-City on all-business-class A318s have incredible award space next June. It's a route and plane that fascinates me, and one way for…

The Points Guys says he has an official statement from the American Airlines PR department: "Last night, in a routine effort to better align American to industry standards with other global carriers,…

Update at 12:45 PM ET: The Points Guys says he has an official statement from the American Airlines PR department: "Last night, in a routine effort to better align American to industry standards with…

The 25,000 Starpoint bonus for opening the Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American Express and spending $5k on the card in the first six months is one of my absolute favorite bonus…

IHG Rewards announced its new promotion that will run from September 1 to December 31 called "The Big Win." You can register for The Big Win today to see your offers, which vary by person.

There are several posts on yesterday’s new PointBreaks list. Even if you’ve read those, read this. I’ve honed my strategy for getting $35 per night rooms quite a bit, and I want to share it, so…