When Emirates announced that they were launching service between New York City and Milan later this fall I guessed that the route would be a great place to look for decent fares. While that part…
Welcome to episode 25 of the PointsHoarder podcast, where we will – once again – take you on a journey of random musings intermixed with vaguely useful information in the world of points and travel….
Partners are a key factor in maximizing value of points. This week’s episode talks about, among other things, two significant bits of partner news. First up, Alaska Airlines is finally offering one-way awards on partners;…
JetBlue‘s latest sale – launched on a Monday rather than their typical Tuesday offer – comes with a bit of extra in it this time around: Quadruple TrueBlue points. The catch is that you have…
Virgin America has a promotion available for either double or triple miles on 13 routes from their west coast hubs at Los Angeles and San Francisco. The promotion runs through 30 June 2013 (it started…
US Airways has launched a new Dividend Miles promotion for their Shuttle service between Washington, DC, New York City and Boston. For every three segments flown on the Shuttle between now and 31 May 2013…
Welcome to episode 22 of the PointsHoarder podcast. Some of our listeners were asking our opinions of the recent hotel program devaluations and if that is changing our approach to holding our points versus burning…
Virgin America has extended their partnership with Singapore Air to now include frequent flyer reciprocity for travel on each others’ flights. The rates aren’t great on the earning side for Elevate members but the redemption…
Buying points is often a tough value proposition to justify. For program where the redemption value is fixed (or relatively so) such as JetBlue‘s TrueBlue program it is even harder to realize good value from…
Did you know that there are only three ways to earn points? Reading a thread on MilePoint a couple weeks ago, that was one of the views presented. As Gary has listed, the three ways…
