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Fare Bucket Pricing | Booking Airline Tickets For Multiple People? Be Sure To Use This Trick…

Mike FriedmanDecember 2, 2019

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. ...

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BankDirect To Start Reporting Miles To IRS; Credit Card Miles Probably Aren’t Next

Mike FriedmanNovember 26, 2019

BankDirect* is a financial institution with a unique proposition for deposit holders and travelers. It's a subsidiary of Texas Capital Bank and, instead of large interest payments, offers its depositors miles, at the rate of one dollar saved equals one dollar per year. ...

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JetBlue Bad News – JetBlue Blue Basic Fares + Consumer-Unfriendly Changes

Mike FriedmanNovember 13, 2019

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....

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The Superiority of the Southwest Airlines Credit Cards

Mike FriedmanOctober 11, 2019

Before we touch on the Southwest Airlines Credit Cards, let's talk Southwest Airlines. Southwest does everything differently from its competitors. ...

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Using US Airline Miles For Free Flights When Abroad

Mike FriedmanAugust 21, 2019

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!...

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Why Redeeming British Airways Avios Is A Great Option. Even In The US.

Mike FriedmanAugust 15, 2019

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....

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SeatGuru: Find The Best Seats On The Plane

Mike FriedmanAugust 13, 2019

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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Beginners Guide – Airline Elite Status and Hotel Elite Status

Mike FriedmanJuly 12, 2019

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....

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Four Ways to Avoid Checked Bag Fees

Mike FriedmanJune 25, 2019

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. ...

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Alaska Airlines Promotion – Double Miles and Fare Deals (And Why They’re Useful!)

Mike FriedmanJune 19, 2019

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....

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