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For beginners, booking an international business class award ticket is a milestone. It may be their first time in a lie-flat seat, getting real food when on a plane, and…

Each of the major airline alliances has its strengths and weaknesses. It all depends on the airlines in each alliance and the rules of each program. Award flights with oneworld…

Airport lounges in the United States were previously reserved for either business travelers with the highest levels of frequent flyer status or those flying on transoceanic business class tickets. Sure,…

Back in 2012, JetBlue and LOT Polish Airlines, Poland‘s flag carrier, announced what was then a new interline partnership that allowed their respective customers to seamlessly book connections through JetBlue’s…

Understanding what airline alliances are and which airlines are in each alliance is a key that unlocks the door to the next level of miles and points earning and usage.…

When you start to get into the world of using frequent flyer miles, you discover that your miles (at least for the 3 “big” airlines, a.k.a. the “Legacy” airlines, Delta,…

Even before we started writing Your Mileage May Vary, our friends and family would ask how we could travel as much as we did to so many places while managing…

In a rare display of solidarity, the three global airline alliances, Oneworld, SkyTeam and Star Alliance, which together represent over 50% of the world’s air traffic, have combined forces on…

Happy Sunday to all of our travel friends, both near and far! Here are some articles we’ve read from other bloggers (and other sources) that we think you may like,…

When people who have been collecting points and miles for years, or decades, talk to those getting started, they often overlook how things we take for granted are totally new…