Jul
17
2025
Hyatt now offers live award availability – not just the price a hotel would cost if it’s available – in calendar format.
Hyatt’s Award Calendar Now Shows Live Availability For Free Nights
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Why You Should Pull Your Kids Out Of School: Turn Miles And Points Into Once-in-a-Lifetime Family Adventures
May
26
2025
The key to getting the most out of miles and points is having some flexibility. If you can only take a certain flight on a specific day, you’ll take or leave what’s available. But if you can shift your plans and take advantage of the awards that are available, when they come up, you can get orders of magnitude greater value – business and first class for the same price as coach, international long haul for the same price as domestic.
Award Space Alert — Fly American Airlines New 787-9 Private Business Class Suites To London This Summer For Just 55K Miles
May
06
2025
Awards for new American Airlines business class suites are wide open between Chicago and London Heathrow this summer as well as between Philadelphia and London. The new American Airlines 787-9s debuts June 5. That’s when the first plane flies Chicago – Los Angeles and back and then on to London. Come July all three of American’s Chicago – London flights transition to this new aircraft (“789P”). It features business class suites with doors, including an enhanced bulkhead row, as well as new premium economy seats. The plane is also equipped with ViaSat wifi which is far more functional than the Panasonic installs that have been featured on all of American’s wifis prior to the ‘block 2’ 787-8s which were delivered after the pandemic. American has these flights available for a variety of points prices, for…
Frequent Flyer Study: Award Ticket Prices Are Soaring—Except At American Airlines
Mar
13
2025
Looking at the cost of domestic roundtrip bookings, the report finds that award price inflation (36% since 2019) is much worse than inflation in the broader economy (24%). American AAdvantage redemptions have actually got 21% cheaper in this category over the last six years.
Amex Cardholders: Get Free Access To The Award Search Tool That Saves You Time And Points
Jan
24
2025
I really like point.me award search and I use it myself when trying to find award flights. Quickly search across most frequent flyer programs to see what flights are available to book using points, compare the cost of those awards, and get help with how to make the bookings at the lowest cost possible. This is a premium service, but did you know that you can access it for free? And if you haven’t used it lately, it’s gotten far better in the last few months.
Wide Open Lufthansa Business Class Awards For The Whole Family Every Day In Summer
Jan
23
2025
Lufthansa is putting the superjumbo Airbus A380 onto the Denver – Munich route April 30 through September 30th. The plane will also operate from Munich to New York, Boston, Washington, Los Angeles and Delhi.
That’s a lot of airplane with a lot of seats to fill, and award space especially on the Denver route is wide open using miles from partner frequent flyer programs.
Wide Open Etihad Business Class Award Space, Book With Your Credit Card Points
Jan
21
2025
While Etihad is a partner of both American AAdvantage and Air Canada Aeroplan, this space won’t be bookable using those points, and Etihad’s own program is both costly and comes with draconian cancellation penalties. Fortunately, you can book the space using Air France KLM’s Flying Blue as reasonable rates.
Why AAdvantage Members Struggle To Book Asia Premium Cabin Awards—And Why It’s Not All American’s Fault
Jan
05
2025
Reader Barney wants to know why it’s gotten so hard to use his American Airlines AAdvantage miles to fly in premium cabins to Asia, or whether he’s imagining things? I’d say he’s right, and I think I know why.
Hurry: Wide Open JetBlue Mint Awards to Europe—Book From Just 60,000 Points
Aug
12
2024
It’s no secret that JetBlue has struggled with its transatlantic flights. Right now that’s to our benefit because they’re making business class award space widely available across a number of their flights, in some cases between now and end of spring, and for at least two and sometimes more passengers at a time.
Act Fast: Fiji Airways New Non-Stop Dallas-Fiji Flight Has Great Business Class Award Space
Aug
08
2024
Fiji Airways, which is becoming a full oneworld member and adopting American’s AAdvantage as its loyalty program, launches non-stop service from Dallas – Fort Worth to Nadi, Fiji on December 10. And like many new flights, it has loaded into the schedule with outstanding award availability. I would pounce on this opportunity quickly.
