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Today Only: Discounted United Award Flights To London
United is wrapping up their week of discounted award flight offers with deals on award flights to London.  The offer is listed as a deal for folks who hold a United credit card, so you’ll need to login to whichever United loyalty account is... The post Today Only: Discounted United Award...
Travel Points Playbook
Deal: 2X Points on Southwest Flights
For their Week of Wow promotion, Southwest launched a new offer today to earn 2X Rapid Rewards points…
Miles For Family
Weird Things Are Happening at Choice Program (Burn Points Now)
A few days ago, Choice program has increased their booking window from 100 days to 50 weeks. To be clear, this appears to be the case of YMMV, as  personally I’m not able to book hotels that far ahead. But some can. Perhaps trying in a different browser would do...
Miles For Family
Increased Credit Card Offers, Miles for Dining and More
US Bank $450 Checking Bonus: If you don’t mind moving some direct deposits, this is a good way to earn extra cash. See this post on Doctor of Credit. Earn up to 5000 Miles by Joining Airline Dining Programs: This article on AwardWallet is a good overview of current miles...
Nerd Ka Travel
JetBlue Launches New Transatlantic Routes to Madrid and Edinburgh from Boston
JetBlue is expanding its transatlantic network with the addition of two new routes connecting Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) to Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport (MAD) in Spain and Edinburgh Airport (EDI) in Scotland. The daily nonstop seasonal services will commence
Travel Points Playbook
Lounge Access When Flying Southwest: Aspire Lounge ONT Review
One of the drawbacks of flying Southwest is that they do not operate their own airport lounges.  However,…
Nerd Ka Travel
Frontier Airlines Expands at JFK: Crashing the Premium JFK-LAX Party with Budget Fares
Frontier Airlines is set to launch three new routes from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) this spring. Beginning on March 30, 2025, the airline will offer daily nonstop flights to Miami International Airport (MIA). On April 22,
Nerd Ka Travel
United Airlines Accelerates Starlink Deployment
United Airlines has announced an accelerated timeline for the rollout of Starlink, the high-speed, low-latency internet service developed by SpaceX, across its fleet. United announced Starlink back in September 2024. The airline is set to begin testing Starlink next month,
Travel Points Playbook
2024 Year in Review
2024 was a busy travel year for the family that saw our son’s first trip to Europe, our…
Travel Points Playbook
Welcome to Travel Points Playbook
My sincere wish is to help transform lives through travel by making it more accessible with the use of miles and points.  Along the way I want to inform, educate, and hopefully entertain.  For all of you who have that dream trip you want to take someday, I want to...
Pizza in Motion
DEALS: 25k One-Way To Europe, As Low As 7,500 Miles One-Way To Hawaii
There are two award deals that caught my eye this morning.  Technically, I saw one of them last night.  There was an announcement on the front page of United.com about 25,000 mile one-way flights to Amsterdam. It was a one-day offer as part of... The post DEALS: 25k One-Way To Europe,...
Miles For Family
Global Entry Approval Timeline for my Son with Dual Citizenship
This summer, I decided to get Global Entry for my two younger kids (14 and 17). They already have TSA PreCheck, since that’s easier/quicker to get. However, our slow re-entry back into the U.S. after some recent international trips made us want to get all 5 of us in the...
Miles For Family
Leana’s 2025 Travel Plans Using Miles and Points
First things first. I don’t generally refer to myself in third person, but since Nancy has already published a similar post, a title clarification seemed warranted. With that out of the way, I wanted to share my 2025 travel plans, and how miles and points will help with reducing out-of-pocket...
The Travel Sisters
New York Times 52 Places to Go in 2025
I love reading the annual travel lists compiled by various travel websites and newspapers on top travel destinations for the year.  While I don’t particularly care if a destination I travel to is considered a must see, I love reading these lists for inspiration on where to travel to and...
Miles For Family
Making Changes to my Asia Trip Itinerary
My family is traveling to Japan this summer, and my daughter and I decided to add a quick trip to Shanghai, China to the end of that trip to visit Shanghai Disneyland. Last month, I wrote about a change to China’s visa-free transit rule that tempted me to add Beijing...