Excellent Award Availability Alert! You can book Qantas First using Alaska Airlines or oneworld miles from Sydney to Dallas throughout various dates until the end of the year. The best availability appears during summer travel dates. Qantas’ Sydney to Dallas flight is one of the best for maximising the First Class experience. You will also be able to access the fantastic Qantas First Class Lounge… Read More
Barclays (Barclaycard) is the latest bank to introduce their own flexible, transferable points currency with the introduction of the new Barclays Arrival Premier World Elite Mastercard. The new credit card is available for applications as of now. When you think of incredible transferable points currencies, you generally think of three – AMEX, Chase, and SPG. I wouldn’t consider Citi points as a “powerful” currency due to… Read More
My second favourite frequent flyer programme after Miles & More is Aeroplan – Air Canada’s frequent flyer programme (at least for the next 2 years). Aeroplan is an instant transfer partner of America Express Membership Rewards points and offers generous routing rules on award tickets while not charging fuel surcharges on a number of incredible Star Alliance airlines. The “trick” to booking Aeroplan awards with… Read More
There are no miles that I love to burn as much as Delta’s. SkyMiles aren’t worth much these days and therefore whenever there is a good deal, I often book it. My favourite SkyMiles award is Delta’s 5k one-way flights on shorter distances. For example, you could fly Seattle to anywhere on the West Coast for 5k miles one-way – that’s incredible. It looks like… Read More
United Airlines devalued MileagePlus a few years ago and basically destroyed all of the value the programme had. Before the changes, the programme was actually amazing and my favourite use of Chase Ultimate Rewards points. However, first came an award chart devaluation whereby some awards went up 100% in cost and then came a major restriction in routing rules – basically if it doesn’t show… Read More
The future in the miles and points hobby is incredibly cloudy and uncertain – devaluations after devaluations.. you can only blame the economy for doing so well. In the past few years, we’ve only seen devaluations after devaluations with little enhancements to frequent flyer programmes. In fact, the most devaluations and negative changes to frequent flyer programmes have happened in the past five years –… Read More
