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 […]
Disclaimer This is the monthly quarterly post on how many points I collected in the previous quarter. This is NOT a brag and moan post. This was the impetus of this entire blog; so I could track how many miles and points I earn in a year. Some of you may do a lot less […]
Introduction No, there’s no such thing as XAP tickets. Just read it in reverse. Anyway, my buddy who is into these conventions told me that the tickets were available about 5 minutes after they officially became available. They were limiting people to 4 tickets per day per person/household. A set of 4-day tickets were $182 […]
Introduction I knew the FIA Amex to Elan Visa conversion was happening. However, I was waiting for the paper statement to come, but I never came. I also had that little voice in the back of my head going, “I feel like you haven’t made a payment in a long time.” So sure enough, I […]
Introduction If you were in a work meeting yesterday or was out catching Pokemon, then you missed out on an hour of pure churning bliss. For approximately an hour on 8/15/16 from 10:00AM to 11:00AM PST, the Chase Sapphire Reserve card had an online application link and was auto-approving people like it was 2011. The […]