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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With Yesterday’s Announcement It Costs More Delta Miles to Upgrade a Paid Ticket Than Book a Free Seat!

Jul 15 2015

Yesterday Delta announced effective immediately, award bookings for travel June 1 onward may have new prices only Delta won’t tell us what those prices are.

Delta also announced that upgrade prices are going up for June 1 travel onward, but more fares will be eligible.

We now know what the upgrade miles prices are. And they’re absolutely nutty.

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The Occam’s Razor Approach to Award Booking, as American Flights are Back on the BA.com Website

Jul 14 2015

When AA.com and indeed the Qantas Frequent Flyer website shows American AAdvantage award space, but the British Airways site doesn’t, odds on the problem is the British Airways website and not a new regime where American blocks their joint venture partner from having access to their (very limited amount of) award space.

So while you could get the seats if you called. And indeed plenty of British Airways agents were willing to waive the telephone booking fee.

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