Today is the last part of my three part series on my personal awards for travel between mid-2012 and mid-2014.

Which of My Personal Awards Could You Have Booked? Part 1
Which of My Personal Awards Could You Have Booked?

Today is the last part of my three part series on my personal awards for travel between mid-2012 and mid-2014.

Which of My Personal Awards Could You Have Booked? Part 1
Which of My Personal Awards Could You Have Booked?

Yesterday I published the first part of a three-part look at 17 awards I've booked myself for travel between mid-2012 and mid-2014.

Which of My Personal Awards Could You Have Booked? Part 1

Today I'll look at five more of the awards I've booked myself that range from economy flights in Argentina to First Class flights to my favorite award ever.

How many of these five awards could you have booked? How did I book them?

7.

Update: The offer to email me later in this post resulted in free drinks at the 2013 Chicago Seminars. The offer is now dead.

I book frequent-flyer-mile awards professionally through the MileValue Award Booking Service. I know how to book complex awards and squeeze every inch out of my miles. But do I routinely do it for myself?

I think I've booked myself 17 award for travel from May 2012 through March 2014.

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I have wanted to fly Singapore Suites since seeing Tahsir's trip report of a flying double bed.

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 solving with error messages, free oneways, and free changes to awards within 24 hours.

How can you book a similar award?

To convince my friend in Los Angeles to meet me in Phuket next week, I offered to book his ticket with miles.

The balance in my US Airways account was practically blinking like a giant Las Vegas neon sign.

120,368!

120,368!

120,368!

As luck would have it, 120,000 miles is the exact amount needed for a roundtrip first class award to North Asia. United charges 140,000 miles for the same award.

I recently saved a MileValue Award Booking Service client 60,000 miles on a trip to Israel by taking advantage of the best use of American Airlines miles and British Airways Avios on the same trip.

A client contacted me looking for a trip for two from Atlanta to Israel next spring. She had some Delta miles, American miles, and Avios.

The second you move abroad, you become a lot more popular! That far flung country looks a lot better to family and friends as soon as they know they'll have a free bed and tour guide. My sister wanted to come visit me in Argentina in mid-May, so we set out to find her the best award ticket possible. Only one minor problem. As of two months ago, she had zero miles.

We ended up booking her a roundtrip from Los Angeles to Buenos Aires for a weeklong trip for 60,000 United miles.

Unfortunately, all great trips must come to an end. Three-and-a-half months before the end of my stay in Argentina, it is time to book my oneway return to the US: from Buenos Aires (EZE) to Denver (DEN).

Planning

I need to be in Denver for a wedding at the end of July. Because of this, my travel dates are limited--I want to maximize my time in Argentina while still arriving in Denver before the wedding.