For those of you who pay attention to such things, it's also a sad day, since your calendar elite tracker has been reset to zero. Congratulations on beginning to earn your status for 2020....
So you're booking airline tickets for your family of four from Boston to Minneapolis and go looking for the best deal. The novice traveler will immediately go to their favorite website, input the origin & destination, choose "four passengers" and then book their tickets. And by leaving out one essential step, they may have just cost themselves hundreds of dollars. ...
Passengers tend to book flights based on the lowest fare and worry about the ancillaries later. Today, we discuss some JetBlue bad news, or shall we say changes that are consumer-unfriendly....
Last week, we had a discussion of using British Airways miles in the United States to maximize your reward value. Today, we're going the other direction. How do you get the most value out of your US carrier miles? Send them abroad!...
Intra-US reward flights are becoming increasingly difficult. Not only can it be hard to find availability but the new variable cost structures also mean that you need an unlimited supply of miles. One option you might not have thought about are British Airways Avios....
You've probably heard the term "elite status," even if you don't know what it is. So we're going to do an introduction to the concept of airline elite status and hotel elite status, to be followed eventually by in-depth pieces about the various program....
I'm a sucker for a good airline clickbait headline, so when I saw this article about how much money airlines made selling "one simple thing," I clicked on it, even though I knew what the answer would be. Let us now look into how to avoid checked bag fees. ...
There's nothing worse than being crammed into a middle seat of coach with only 21 inches of legroom. So when possible, upgrading with miles is a great option....
Alaska Airlines is my favorite airline that I never fly. Their friendly employees make travel almost civilized again. Sadly, I live on the east coast and they're based out of Seattle, so our paths don't often cross. Still, I pay attention to their emails and the recent Alaska Airlines Promotion because, well, I'm an airline nerd....