Maximizing the Best Travel Credit Card Bonus Offers

Had a great day at the Executive Travel Summit and meeting everybody there. We had a great discussion about the future on points as a currency and the inner workings of hotel loyalty programs.

I was also introduced to a great charity aggregation and donation team called Kula. They turn unused or unwanted reward points into donations to your favorite charity. They have a massive database of 1000s of charitable and non profit organizations to choose from.

It was all good fun and I know this weekend’s FT University will bring even more misadventures and memories.

Maximize Best Travel Credit Cards

You can find all the best deals on my Best Travel Credit Card page and more airline credit cards on my Best Airline Credit Card.

It is always a good idea to dictate your own award future. Research, research, and more research. This is the best way to Maximize Travel Credit Cards and not have huge balances in programs you will never use.
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For Love or Miles: Extra Miles for Flagship First Class

****Because of the Surprise Announcement of 100k Avios Points Chase British Airways card offer I will be introducing some posts that will discuss how to maximize these miles. Some of these posts will re-hash:

So stay tuned as I release these posts throughout the week. It is my favorite program and I look forward to sharing it with all of you. Now back to the post.

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Before Fernanda left on March 26 I decided to change her departure date.

She had off from school April 2 for Remembered of the War of the Malvinas. So if we had found availability she could have stayed until April 1.

Sometimes the award space teases you. There was milesAAver availability for dates around this but we could not find anything for her to stay the weekend. We could only bump her an extra 5 days, having her leave on Friday.

From Economy to First

The First Class milesAAver award costs 62.5k AAdvantage miles but an economy milesAAver would have been 30k AAdvantage but this being off-peak it was only 20k miles.

The economy award would have been much more affordable and long-term focused but none were available. This is one of those moments where cents per mile just slip away and you begin to focus on the moment. What is really important, time with somebody you care about or an 40k miles?

So for the first time ever, one of us would be flying in something other than Economy Class.

Legroom for her brAAnded Slippers

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