Points & Miles

When booking our most recent trip to London (pre-COVID), I needed to top up our Delta SkyMiles balances to have enough miles in our accounts for the tickets. I earn flexible…

Airline loyalty programs started in their present form in the 1980s. Airlines asked their advertising firms to come up with names for the new programs. It’s impressive that the first…

The simplest of round trip airfare consists of flying to one city and then flying back from the arriving airport to your origin airport. One example would be flying from…

Back in 2018, Sharon received an unsolicited offer from American Airlines to upgrade her to Platinum Pro. At the time, this was a great offer for us. We had flights…

Many things changed in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. One of the things missing over the past year is the massive hype over the latest deal of the year.…

For over twenty years, I’ve had credit cards that earned points or miles. I originally had an American Express Gold travel card that paid me 1.5x points for all travel…

Due to COVID-19, most airlines have extended their points expiration policies. For U.S. airlines, that’s understandable because the airlines that haven’t totally done away with point expiration typically make you…

There’s no loophole too small for American Express to close, so I’m hesitant to talk about what I discovered after closing my American Express Business Green card. However, the same…

If you read other websites that talk about points and miles, you’ll see articles about purchasing gift cards and you might wonder, “Why?” What’s the purpose of using a credit…

You can oftentimes get perks for just signing up for loyalty programs. Hotels will give free WiFi to even base members of their program, and having a rental car membership…