About Gary Leff

Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel - a topic he has covered since 2002. Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »

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Act Fast: Great American Airlines Business Class Award Space to Brazil

Sep 15 2017

Any time American Airlines makes international business class saver award space available that’s notable, since it’s both rare and short-lived when it does occur.

From February 27 through June 24 there’s good business class award space available on American’s New York JFK – Rio de Janeiro service in both directions. Miami – Sao Paulo also has good space for 2 passengers in business class through March and April, becomes Thursdays only in May, and has decent availability again for June.

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People Are Increasingly Scared Of Credit Cards. Here’s When You Should Be.

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Sep 15 2017

If you don’t spend more than you otherwise would and pay off your bill in full on time each month credit cards are better than debit cards, cash and other methods of payment.

If you don’t meet either of those conditions then tools that free you wind up used irresponsibly so for many it’s wise to adopt forms of payment which are binding constraints on the ability to get into financial trouble.

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