Last summer, I found myself needing to spend some vacation days before changing jobs. Kind of like my Alaskan Cruise in 2017, I needed a plan fast and I needed someone to go with me! Luckily, my mom was available and gave me free rein of the itinerary. Here’s how I planned our trip to…
I knew Aer Lingus has a direct flight from Boston to Dublin. Over the years, I’ve read blog posts about how you can get a good deal on this flight with British Airways Avios. I had to do a bit of digging to book our roundtrip flights to Dublin for just 33,000 Avios per person.…
I’ll admit, our churning has been a bit boring this year since we’ve been going slow with mostly Chase cards. With 2019 coming to a close, we are starting the think about getting the Companion Pass for 2020/2021. Here are our credit card applications and results for Fall 2019. My Applications Barclays JetBlue Business Card…
Over the past several weeks, there have been reports of American Airlines AAdvantage account shutdowns due to alleged program rule violations. The shutdowns are likely a result of people earning a sign-up bonus multiple times on Citi American Airlines credit cards. In this post, I’ll outline what we know about the American Airlines account shutdowns…
2019 was a busy year! My big points and miles trips this year included hiking the Inca Trail in Peru, island hopping in Croatia, and a trip to France and Dubai with two flights on Etihad First Class Apartments. We managed to earn almost 1,000,000 points and miles and spent almost 2,500,000, some of which…
For our flight home from our honeymoon, we booked two seats in Singapore Airlines First Class Suites. It was my largest mile redemption to date, but I was willing to spare no “expense” for our honeymoon! I’ll admit, my photos are not great…it was the end of almost three weeks of travel and I was…
Like last time, there’s not a whole lot to report since my last results post. Our spending has been way down this year which is good for our wallets, but less exciting for churning. Here are our credit card applications and results for Summer 2019. My Applications CitiBusiness / AAdvantage Platinum Select World Mastercard This…
For our flight to Japan for our honeymoon, we booked two seats in Japan Airlines First Class using Alaska Airlines miles. This was my first time flying first class so a review from a noob would be useless as I have no point of comparison. Instead, here are a few photos from our first class…
Ever find the perfect award itinerary only to have your hopes and dreams dashed by an error message when you go to book it online? This happened to me recently when trying to take advantage of United’s Excursionist Perk. While this problem is not unique to United, I’ll walk through what to do about phantom…
This trip has been a long time in the making. We had been talking about going to France for a few years, but I decided to throw in a week in UAE for two reasons. First, after flying first class on Singapore Airlines, I wanted to see how Etihad First Class Apartments compared. Second, I…
