Reading books, like the ones in my April book list, was never interesting to me until a marketing class in my junior year of undergrad. I was assigned to read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and have been hooked ever since. This post is part of a new series where I’ll be sharing books that I’ve […]
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American Express Membership Rewards is one the 5 transferable point programs. The other 4 programs are Capital One Miles, Chase Ultimate Rewards, Citi ThankYou Rewards, and Marriott Rewards. Similar to using Chase Ultimate Rewards, Amex has several notable airline transfer partners including ANA and Singapore Airlines. Unlike using Marriott points with airline partners, Amex does
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Starwood Preferred Guest The SPG program is regarded by many as providing highest value per points amongst the transferable point programs. As I mentioned in using Chase Ultimate Rewards, I appreciate the flexibility in being able to use SPG Starpoints with airline partners. SPG, unlike Chase, Citi, and Amex, has an added benefit when you
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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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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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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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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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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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As a complement to last week’s post on booking award flights, I thought it’d be helpful dive into each section in more detail. The sections covered in the previous post were Transferable Points, Wikipedia, Award Hacker, Google, and Award Search. For this post, I’ll kick it off by focusing on Transferable Points to help you
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Award Travel I know all too well the frustration that occurs when wanting to book award flights. Where do I start? How do I know which points and miles to use? What airline program has the best redemption? These are many of the questions that I had when starting out. For today’s post, I’m going
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