Bad news for anyone who wants to book awards to the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, the Maldives, and even Europe with United miles.

United's relationship with Qatar Airways ends September 14. Tickets booked by then can include Qatar segments up to 337 days out or so, which is generally how far in advance you can book United awards.

Hey there, you're reading an outdated post! The updated series from April 2015 can be found here.

This is the twenty-second post in a monthlong series. Each post will take about two minutes to read and may include an action item that takes the reader another two minutes to complete.

Yesterday I talked about some great sweet spots on the US Airways chart for awards originating in South America. Maybe you thought that post was irrelevant for Americans.

But Americans can still get half the value of these sweet-spot awards by using open jaw itineraries.

US Airways sweet-spot awards can have tremendous value for Americans if they're employed as part of something I'll call a triangle award.

A triangle award is using three or more oneway itineraries to create a journey that includes two or more destinations.

I always like to scan award charts for sweet spots. I would define a sweet spot as one of three things:

An award that is much cheaper with one airline's miles than another airline's miles.  In this post I'll talk about EZE-BOG, CLO-BOG-EZE in Avianca business class costing 30k US Airways miles vs. 80k United miles.
An award that is much cheaper than a slightly different award on the same airline. And ideally the sweet spot award can be turned into the highly similar award cheaply.

Last month I wrote:
US Airways didn’t announce when its off peak

Hey there, you're reading an outdated post! The updated series from April 2015 can be found here.

Thankfully Mommy Points has a full post on the 50% off Southwest sale happening today only. What a time saver she is for a blogger trying to enjoy his Aloha Friday. Check her post out for the full details, but don't bother clicking if you can't fly these seven Tuesdays and Wednesdays as the sale only applies to them:

September 5
September 11
September 18
September 25
October 2
October 31
November 6

The briefest miles blogger, Mile Nerd, lets us know about Dividend Miles Daily Deals. It's like Groupon in that deals rotate and are discounted.

Hey there, you're reading an outdated post! The updated series from April 2015 can be found here.

This is the second post in a monthlong series. Each post will take about two minutes to read and may include an action item that takes the reader another two minutes to complete.

Singapore Airlines First Class and Business Class space is hard to get with United and US Air miles. Except right now, there is a glitch you can exploit, and the space is widely available.

A few weeks ago, I wrote about US Airways secretly loading their off peak award space to South America. Check out that post for a full rundown of US Airways off peak awards, probably the best value out there for award travel.