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[29 Dec 2011 | No Comment | ]
Top 12 Articles for 2011

In honor of the soon to come 2012, here is my list of Top 12 Articles of 2011. (See list of Top 11 Article of 2010). This list is based on traffic to their pages. I have excluded article that were posted in 2010 (The post – Air India switches to all non-stop routes to North America was the 3rd most read article and Boeing 747 Piano Bar article was the 6th most read article in 2011, despite both being written in 2010!). I also excluded all articles related to …

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[29 Dec 2011 | 2 Comments | ]
Planning your Airline Miles for 2012 – Part II

In Part I of this post I went over the process I use and recommend for planning out an year of earning and maximizing Airline Miles. (The very same process can be applied for Hotel Points too). In that post I showed how I came upon my ‘gap’ – miles that I had to work for; those that were not in my planned travel or covered by my usual travel run rate. This is where the work is and requires creative efforts to get to your goals.
As I maintained before, …

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[13 Nov 2011 | 4 Comments | ]
The best credit card recommendation: Figure it out yourself

When I was a kid, my dad ingrained the doctrine “Learn from and listen to everyone, follow no one” in me. I have found this to be the best advice one can ever get. This probably also holds true for credit cards.
A plethora of credit cards swarm the market with so diverse benefits that it is difficult to compare them. It is even more difficult to recommend cards to someone without knowing the exact economic condition and travel plans. For example, if a newbie asks anywhere on Flyertalk or Milepoint …

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[2 Nov 2011 | No Comment | ]
Buy Starpoints at for 2.8c (20% off)

If you had taken advantage of earlier promotions and had bought all 48K points, your out of pocket cost would have been ~$1350 compared to $2k if you had bought the rooms with cash. Now that Starwood award stays count towards elite status, there is no reason to pay them out of your pocket.

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[24 Oct 2011 | 3 Comments | ]
Our 200th post!

This is our 200th post! I was hoping to make this some sensational story that will rock the Airline Miles world, but no such luck… I want to thank all our readers and supporters for being with us on this journey. Thank you for all the feedback and support. Do keep coming back, reading and sharing.
Here is a look back at some our most popular and most read posts.
Top 10 posts (by comments, overall):

US Airways Sucks! …or does it?
Airline Alliances – Why all the fuss?
Airline Elite Status – the What …

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[19 Oct 2011 | 15 Comments | ]
The pain of tracking Airline Miles and Hotel Points

Yeah, I know there are websites that will track it for me all in one place – I have accounts with points.com and gomilies.com , but they just don’t seem to be right or enough. … Staying at a hotel (duh, again, but this can become complex if one earns hotel points, airline miles or hotel points AND airline miles) Credit cards eMiles.com eRewards.com MyPoints.com TopGuest Car rentals (for rental rewards or airline miles) Other sundry events, like filling out a survey, earning miles as compensation for a customer service event, etc.

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[29 Jul 2011 | 7 Comments | ]
CapitalOne Venture Card vs. Airline Cards

A reader of our blog, Andy, asked me what I thought about the CapitalOne Venture Card. It is well advertised on TV that it earn two points per dollar charged. My co-blogger, the Nomad rated it as one of the Best ‘other’ rewards Card. Good deal or not? As I started typing my response to Andy’s email, I realized that I was really giving him a comparison between the Venture card and a typical Airline Miles or Hotel Points card. I decided to give Andy my response as a blog …

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[10 Jul 2011 | One Comment | ]
Bump the Bonus with Chase Freedom card

Chase Freedom is one of my favorite cards especially in 3rdquarter when they have 5% cashback on travel related purchases up to $1500.
I had written earlier about a 20K signup bonus Ultimate Rewards (UR) points for the Chase Freedom card. Recently they have been sending out a targeted offer for 30K UR points. If you have applied for the card in the last 3 months, it might be worthwhile asking them to bump the bonus on the card to 30K. The promo offer code is D1R.

Ultimate Rewards points are transferrable …

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[19 Jun 2011 | 7 Comments | ]
Amazing Deal: 100K Bonus for Chase Sapphire Card!

Most of you must have heard about the 50K sign up bonus Ultimate Rewards points offer for the Chase Sapphire Card. Now it gets even better: buddychan (on FatWallet) has reported of an offer for 100K bonus sign up bonus Ultimate Rewards points! However, it appears to be targeted.

 
If you have already applied for the Chase Sapphire Card in the last two months, it might be worth an effort to send them a secure message requesting them to match this new offer. If you haven’t, it is probably better to …

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[14 Jun 2011 | 3 Comments | ]
Three new credit cards on our platter

2011 has been the year of mega credit card bonuses. In case you are still craving for more, there are three new credit cards that may be worth your attention.

 
· Chase Ritz Carlton Rewards Card: 50K sign up bonus points good for one night in most Ritz Carltons or several nights in Marriotts. Annual fee of $350. However you can get $200 credit towards airline incidentals. Brian (aka The Points Guy) has covered other details here.
This may be a good value but I would probably wait to sign up …