I’m Giving Away $400 to My Blog Readers. Click Here to Enter. All You Have to Do Is Be Positive!

by Gary Leff

It’s been a tough 18 months in the frequent flyer world. It’s easier than ever to earn points, but the cost of awards has gone up, up, up.

Miles and points have been very good to me, and I do my best to give back where I can. I don’t make a public show of my charity, but I do my best to give the best advice I can and to offer giveaways when things are offered to me. And when I have gift cards, I can either turn them into money orders or do various frequent flyer experiments, or I can give them away.

So here, I thought I would give away $400. And what better way to give them away than to my readers who comment on this post?

Goodness knows it’s been a tough 15 months or so for frequent flyers.

And that’s just a small sampling.

So I would like to focus on something positive for a change, and I’m looking to you for help to do so!

Here are the prizes:

    (4) $100 gift cards

So here’s how you enter.

  1. Leave a comment on this blog post. Say something positive above miles and points, blogs, forums, or your fellow travelers.
  2. Enter by Noon Eastern, Friday May 30. That’s 4 days from this writing, and there are four prizes.
  3. Enter no more than 4 times. Four prizes, four days to enter, you can enter by commenting up to four times. (It doesn’t have to be one per day, the only limitation is that you cannot enter twice in a row you have to at least wait for someone else to enter before you enter again each time.)
  4. Four prize winners will be drawn at random. As in past, I will use random.org for the drawing.
  5. Fine print. Void where prohibited by law. All of my decisions are final and unappealable, I want to make giveaways as easy as possible and with the fewest headaches possible.

So, what do you like about miles and points, blogs, forums, or your fellow travelers?

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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Comments

  1. One big positive for me is that there are more and more blogs and forums that have given me useful information and travel tips.

  2. I have learned so much/saved so much/traveled so much, thanks to you and you fellow bloggers! Keep up the good work.

  3. Just booked my family of 5 for Hawaii on Thanksgiving week! My first booking on miles earned. I am very grateful for all that I have learned on your blogs!
    Thank you for sharing!

  4. I am glad to see that the Delta Award Chart for 2015 has not increased the award costs for a basic 25 K round trip in the US

  6. Love the blogs and all the help I get (and have received) to navigate the world of miles and points.

  8. What I like about blogs is that it really is a great way to keep up to date with all the changes going on with the points system and how I can best utilize my points through tips and shared comments by other travelers

  9. Via this hobby, I was able to have my dad fly in First class. Sleep in a bed in a plane. Get picked up by a chauffeur.
    I got to make him happy.
    So,Thank you.

    (Now everything feels shabby. 😉 )

  11. I love that miles and points have taken me (along with family members and friends) to places I only ever dreamed of getting to visit as a kid growing up in a small town in the Midwest.

  12. I never even knew about the miles and points possibilities before, so I think it’s all great!

  13. Because of miles I’m taking an epic trip to Tokyo and Amsterdam in the fall!

  14. Thanks to miles and points, we’ve been able to help out friends with trips they wouldn’t have been able to take otherwise.

  17. Happy to be traveling on a Star Alliance award ticket in July to Paris and Tokyo….and not stuck in coach!

  18. I’ve been able to see so much of this world, and none of this would have been possible without miles and points. Despite all the devaluations, I’m still thankful for all the opportunities out there!

  20. Miles and points and the aspiration all trips they allow are a nice reward for spending much of my life on an airplane

  22. It was great that even with the United devaluation we were able to change the tickets afterward at pre-deval prices. I leave on Wednesday! 🙂

  23. Aer Lingus RT BOS to DUB (and then on to London) in October – 4 people, 150k Avios booked during Amex 20% bonus transfer. Good stuff

  25. The community of travelers here and around the web has been so helpful in trying to plan reward travel. It’s terrific.

  26. Miles and points make it possible to take my family on trips we would not otherwise be able to afford.

  27. We can still get credit for referring friends, which makes blogs like this worth the while of the writer (not to say that’s your only motivation!)

  29. Manufactured Spend makes it possible to earn enough points to travel cheaply (even after the increase in award charts)

  30. getting into the miles game has allowed us to travel in business and first class. something that we would not be able to pay for in cash

  31. I love that we still have numerous ways to earn miles to make great travel affordable and memorable.

  33. (Entry 1): Still getting inexpensive/free hotel rooms, status perks in hotels & on airlines….

  34. Upcoming trip with my wife in July: Park Hyatt Vendome – 3 nights using Hyatt CC free nights, followed up with Park Hyatt Tokyo – 1 night using CC free night and 3 more @ 66k points booked pre-devaluation. Total savings = $6053

  35. Southwest Companion Pass – Still the best “value” redemption for domestic family travel. And this year they changed Ts & Cs to expressly include CC sign up bonus as counting towards companion pass!

  36. we get to stay at park Hyatt’s practically for free on points which is incredible!

  37. FINALLY being able to book short haul flights out of DCA using Avios. Happiness indeed!

  41. Hyatt Diamond Challenge – Still good for over 18 months of status with “only” 12 paid nights.

  42. Even with devaluations I always get the information required to stay ahead of the points game from this blog. Keep up the good work!

  43. To me, finding some positive isn’t hard. I still look to the Hilton Honors program for the same award I’ve gotten for a number of years. It went up from 40K to 50K per night, not a show stopper. yeah, I know it isn’t the Maldives or some such but its where I vacation. Thanks Hilton Honors.

  45. There are still opportunities for amazing value out there, but the game has grown more complicated. That just makes it a more interesting challenge to find ways to beat the system!

  48. Blogs and forums have made it so easy to learn so much about how to make good use of the points and miles I already had, not to mention accumulating more simply by getting credit for things I was already doing.

  50. Traveling via airline miles can be so much more cost effective when trying to travel during peak season!

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