Introduction Last weekend, my wife and I went to do our Jetblue mileage run. Man, who knew I would parlay 80,000 AMEX membership rewards to 50K Virgin America miles plus Alaska MVP Gold status and now 75,000 JetBlue miles. I’d rate it as one of the top deals of the year. My tickets from Seattle […]
Introduction Google Flights is now my go-to search engine (I used to use Kayak for the longest time.) Well, I’m not sure how it came up, but Esther from DemFlyers told me that they now have email price alerts whereby you can search for a flight, “save it” and then Google will email you when a […]
Introduction I think most people know that if your cash or award flight schedule changes for more than 2 hours, you can usually get it cancelled for free. Sometimes you can cancel it for free if the change was fewer than 2 hours if you are a sweet talker. Anyway, I had booked a JFK […]
Introduction Another weekend, another wedding. I was actually glad that this was in a destination I had never been before – Lake Tahoe. The only points hotel that I considered was the Hyatt Regency due to my Diamond status this year. It was either something like $500 a night for 20K points, so the decision […]
Introduction I’m sure most of you experts already know what to do, but this is for my beginners. I want to post this story since it happened to my buddy over the weekend. He was flying from Reno to Seattle on United via San Francisco. He checked in for his noon flight and it was […]