Singapore Airlines using Miles

Singapore Airlines using Miles

Note: Read the primer on Using Miles if you have not already. Singapore Krisflyer has separate award charts for flights on Singapore Airlines only and for flights with their Star Alliance partners. Generally, the best use of Singapore Krisflyer miles is for their own flights in business, first, or suites class. Another good option is … Read more

Searching With American Airlines

Searching With American Airlines

Note: Read the primer on Using Miles if you have not already. Note: American’s search engine shows flights on American, Alaska, British, Cape Air, Cathay Pacific, Fiji, Finnair, Hawaiian, Iberia, JAL, Malaysia, Qatar, Royal Jordanian, S7, Seaborne, and Sri Lankan. For Oneworld availability on other carriers (e.g. Cathay Pacific), skip to Searching With British Airways. … Read more

IHG Anniversary Free Night Being Devalued

IHG Anniversary Free Night Being Devalued

Via One Mile at a Time, the IHG anniversary free night is being devalued. Where it previously could be used at any IHG property worldwide, it will now be limited to properties that normally cost up to 40,000 points when redeeming an award. This change will go into effect for any certificates issued May 1, … Read more

Searching With British Airways

Searching With British Airways

Note: Read the primer on Using Miles if you have not already. British Airways Avios is a distance-based rewards program. Single-partner awards are priced out segment-by-segment, meaning if your trip is actually made up of two flights with one connection, you pay for each flight individually according to the charts below. All single-partner awards price … Read more

Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer Award Redemption Changes

Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer Award Redemption Changes

Yesterday, Singapore Airlines announced a series of award redemption changes for Singapore Airlines and SilkAir operated flights, effective March 23, 2017: There will be a new award chart (link). The 15% award mileage discount is being eliminated. Fuel surcharges will no longer be assessed. Note that no changes are being made to partner (i.e. Star Alliance) … Read more

Searching With United Airlines

Searching With United Airlines

Note: Read the primer on Using Miles if you have not already. Note: If you are specifically looking for a partner award that includes Shenzhen Airlines, skip to Searching With Aeroplan below. Keep in mind that, due to United’s recent devaluation and poor IT support, you may have trouble getting any awards that include these … Read more

How To Use Airline Incidental Fee Credits

How To Use Airline Incidental Fee Credits

The American Express Platinum and Premier Rewards Gold Cards offer a $200 or $100 airline incidental fee credit, respectively, every calendar year. It is intended to reimburse you for things such as baggage fees, ticket change fees, airport lounge passes, etc. But what if you aren’t spending any money on stuff like this? Can you still make … Read more

Airline Route Mapper Tutorial

Airline Route Mapper Tutorial

If your initial search for an award flight does not provide you with any options that you like, you may have better luck searching one segment at a time. Use the method outlined below to construct your itinerary segment by segment. Example: SFO to MXP on Star Alliance Download and install Airline Route Mapper (Optional: Download the updated routes.dat file and … Read more

United MileagePlus Changing Stopovers and Fees on October 6, 2016

United MileagePlus Changing Stopovers and Fees on October 6, 2016

Direct Link Quick Summary Current stopover policy is being removed and replaced with the “Excursionist Perk” Change/Cancellation fee structure is changing, mostly for the worse Round the World awards are being discontinued My Take Here are the official rules for applying the Excursionist Perk: The Excursionist Perk cannot be in the MileagePlus defined region where … Read more

Southwest Airlines using Miles

Southwest Airlines using Miles

Note: Read the primer on Using Miles if you have not already. “Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards is a revenue-based points program. This means that the number of points you need to redeem for an award depends on the price of the ticket. Thus, all of the normal rules for finding low-priced tickets apply here, such … Read more