Tips, Tricks, and Travel with Lucky
My friend Rick, who writes the Frugal Travel Guy blog, has been working on a “series” over the past week that has helped me a lot, and I think could benefit others as well. One of my weaknesses when it comes to maximizing mileage is playing the whole credit card game, and Rick is an [...]
Posted on August 14th, 2008 by lucky
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I know I’m jumping on the bandwagon a bit late here, but I just got converted last night. Live Search Club is giving out “tickets” for playing their online games, and those “tickets” can be traded for miles.
1,800 tickets can be traded for 1,000 miles. These miles can be transferred to your Alaska, American, Delta, [...]
Posted on August 2nd, 2008 by lucky
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Gary at View From the Wing made an excellent post today about the future of the mileage game, if you want to call it that. I think he’s basically spot on, the first mainstream blog post I’ve seen in a while that doesn’t either give a “doom and gloom” or “miles are going to be [...]
Posted on June 10th, 2008 by lucky
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I’ve been noticing more and more people getting worried about the future of their miles. I’ve been emailed by several people asking about the fate of their miles, and I’ve also seen much buzz about it. It seems like most of this stems from the cutbacks which have been announced in the past couple of [...]
Posted on June 5th, 2008 by lucky
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Hey, Ben,
I’m wondering, when you have some time, of course, if we can chat about the intricacies of booking award travel on other *A carriers with UA miles. I have a high school friend teaching English in China, and before learned of its impossibility today, I entertained ideas of an SQ C award on the [...]
Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by lucky
Filed under: Mileage Advice, United | 2 Comments »
I made a post about a month ago regarding people that keep earning miles without really redeeming them, and someone just left a comment which I’d like to address:
Lucky,
If one has a lot of UAL miles, what recommendations can you give, the best way to use them both in value and benefit. Do you take *Alliance trips [...]
Posted on March 12th, 2008 by lucky
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With mergers potentially on the horizon (or in the case of DL/NW, very likely), I started asking myself if now is the right time to request a status match. Airlines typically match status, often only upto the middle tier, once in a lifetime, meant mostly for people that switch loyalty. Since I’m still young I haven’t [...]
Posted on February 20th, 2008 by lucky
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Javan69 made a good comment in the mileage redemption post, so bear with me as I step on my soapbox and start preaching here.
*Gets on soapbox*
I’ll never understand people that accumulate a lot of miles (and it’s all relative, so let me say 500,000+) without burning them periodically, at least in most cases. Miles, just [...]
Posted on February 12th, 2008 by lucky
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As many of you may know, there’s nothing I love more than collecting miles, and more importantly using them for exotic trips I wouldn’t otherwise take. In the endless quest to find the perfect award I was recently searching for award availability using the ANA award checker (requires sign up, but is free) to see what [...]
Posted on February 11th, 2008 by lucky
Filed under: Mileage Advice | 3 Comments »
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