A few days ago, I held an award ticket to Europe on United using the PayPal trick. Award holds that involve any partner airlines are valid till midnight the next day. The next day, I wanted to hold the award again because I was still uncertain about my plans. This… Read More »Losing an award seat on United sucks… How to properly renew an award hold
Barclays just came out with a new offer for the US Airways Mastercard. On the surface, it shows as a 50000 miles offer: Link: 50000 mile offer When you read the details, you realize that you get 40,000 miles after the first purchase. However, the $89 fee is not waived… Read More »Why you should NOT get the “50000 miles” US Airways Mastercard
In March, I wrote about how I received a targeted offer for a 50,000 mile offer for the Gold Delta Skymiles American Express card. The expiration date on the offer at the time was April 28th. I also pointed readers to this longstanding link which tells you what offer you… Read More »50,000 Mile offer for Gold Delta Skymiles from American Express till August 18th – Targeted?
Rocketmiles is a new startup that offers miles for hotel bookings. Milevalue has a pretty good analysis of Rocketmiles. There is a current promotion through Rocketmiles which allows you to earn up to 7,000 Virgin America Elevate miles for your first booking (must book by July 15th and complete stay… Read More »Convert your Virgin America Elevate Miles to a More Popular Mileage Currency
My wife and I have an upcoming vacation trip to Istanbul and Dublin booked with United miles and the routing goes like this: IAH – IST (stopover) – Dublin (Destination) – BOS – IAH I have never been to Turkey and was looking forward to Istanbul as well as trying… Read More »Award Change Fee Waiver for Political Unrest