Mike Friedman

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SeatGuru: Find The Best Seats On The Plane

One of the more stressful parts of booking a trip is choosing seats. Sure, you know that you probably don’t want the window seat in the last row of the plane, right in front of the lavatory. But what other factors do you need to look at?...
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This Week In Travel

This week in travel, we'll look at how you're stressing out your coworkers, a $73 billion company that may never make money and the best way to get off of an airplane....
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Airfare Deals | We Like Big Deals And We Cannot Lie

Baby got deals. In this case, we have some fantastic fare deals to Asia on a couple of different alliances. If you want to travel around the world for cheap (and don't mind flying economy), or if you need elite qualifying miles, here are some good options....
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Ocean Rewards: A New Cruise Rewards Program From Carnival Corporation

When it comes to loyalty programs, cruise lines are way behind their colleagues in the airline and hotel businesses. Their cruise rewards schemes are clunky, don't have redeemable points and, at times, difficult to interpret. So I'm not sure why the Carnival parent company is launching a new cash back shopping rewards right now (Ocean Rewards), but hey, that's their prerogative....
world of travel This Week In Travel

This Week In Travel

Every week, we like to wrap up some of the weeks's most interesting or amusing stories in our famous (infamous?) TWIT (this week in travel) notes. This week in...

Mike Friedman

Mike Friedman is the author of Frequent Flyer Miles 101, a blog for people who are new to the miles and points game. When he's not looking for new opportunities to earn miles, he's busy chasing his two kids or rooting for Boston sports teams.