Award Travel

When it comes to airline frequent flyer programs, earning points is the easy part. Redeeming those points for free travel (or mostly free travel) is the difficult part. Not only…

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…

When it comes to using credit cards to pay for travel, the earning of the points is the easy part. Booking award travel is where the process gets complicated. This…

Hi, travel friends and happy Saturday! Here’s a recap of what’s gone on at YMMV in the past week or two. From what we’ve written to what others wrote that…

I wrote this article pre-COVID, when traveling around the world was relatively easy. That’s not the case right now but with the possibility of an effective vaccine coming soon, I’m…

It was in June of 2018 that we decided that we would no longer fly on a United plane. There were just too many things wrong with the airline that…

Since starting Your Mileage May Vary, we know several friends who are now collecting points and miles. I feel a level of satisfaction when they’re able to go on that…

Once you start trying to use airline miles to book international award travel, you quickly discover that flexibility is the key to finding award flights. There’s more than one way…

It was back in January that I started looking for flights for our trip to Japan. I originally thought we’d fly through Hong Kong on Cathay Pacific, but I put…

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,…