I had the month of October open for travel, so in July when AA offered a decent fare to Dusseldorf, I jumped on it. Although I visited Cologne just four years ago, it’s been at least a dozen years… Continue Reading

Due to an extremely low fare on United for flights to Rio de Janeiro from Orlando, I was forced into a pretty crazy routing to earn a total of 14,812 miles. I flew DCA-MCO-IAH-GIG and returned GIG-IAH-DEN-MCO-DCA… Continue Reading

When United announced they were devaluing their award chart and making it extremely expensive to redeem miles for premium cabins on partner airlines, I decided to plan a trip that would maximize multiple… Continue Reading

Name: James Larounis, The Forward Cabin at Prior2Boarding FFP miles spent: 62,500 Flying Blue Hotel points spent: 12,000 Melia Rewards Approximate fees: $653.08 Airline(s) / Routing: IAD-CDG-BCN; MAD-CDG-IAD… Continue Reading

We flew out of SFO on Air Canada to Montreal, then Qatar Airways to Doha with a couple-day stay in Qatar to do some four wheeling in the desert and enjoy the local atmosphere and great Middle Eastern… Continue Reading

My husband and I decided to use our United MileagePlus miles for a quick trip to Europe. Booking online was a breeze – we even had a choice of flights – and the connections were not too crazy… Continue Reading

After hearing many enthusiastic reports of Istanbul, we booked a vacation to Turkey. And, because we booked using United MileagePlus miles (which allows you to have one stopover and one open jaw for free!),… Continue Reading

Around the World with Oneworld We began our journey on an AA flight from Boston to Chicago in first class before continuing on to Hong Kong on Cathay Pacific business class. We stayed at the InterContinental… Continue Reading

San Francisco to Bangkok in First I’m no frequent flyer but I do make decent (and improving) use of mileage credit cards. I am generally still excited about flying, especially internationally, but… Continue Reading