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How To Use Chase Ultimate Rewards With Airline Partners
Chase Ultimate Rewards The Ultimate Rewards (UR) program has been one of my favorite transferable programs to date because of their airline partners and ease of transferring points into airline miles. Chase currently partners with nine airlines and four hotels. As a follow-up to the post on understanding transferable points, I want to dive into…
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How I Perform An Award Flight Search
For the last part in the booking award flights with points and miles series, this article will focus on the award flight search process. It’s extremely helpful to familiarize yourself with the programs you plan to use by signing up for their loyalty program. I recommend searching proposed routes on the search engines of the programs you…
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Why I Use Google To Book Award Flights
Award travel works best by keeping the miles, points and out-of-pocket spend to a minimum. As I shared in how I book award flights, it’s important to have a plan and process. It makes for a more efficient and pleasant experience filled with fewer headaches. As a primer, the U.S. has three major airlines that…
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How To Book Award Flights Using AwardHacker
Award Travel Free travel is the goal of most award travelers. Having the best tools, like AwardHacker, is ideal to find the flights you need to reach that expensive and/or hard-to reach destination. The best tools make it easier to book award flights saving you money in the process. As I mentioned in my post…
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How To Use Wikipedia To Book Cheap Flights
Wikipedia is a powerful tool many people use in the award travel space. Richard Kerr, found of the Award Travel 101 Facebook Group, recommended the tool to me to book cheap flights. The platform is helpful due to the amount of information available to award travelers. Wikipedia As many may know, Wikipedia is a free…
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