My award booking service is all about helping clients effectively use their points to realize their family vacations, romantic getaways, business trips, or anything in between. The goal is always to find a combination that best blends schedule, points required, and out-of-pocket spend to create the best itinerary available. Sometimes that itinerary is perfect, sometimes it is not, but after redeeming 1m+ miles each week for the last 2.5 years, I know this: award space waits for no ...

Link: American Express Business Gold Rewards - 50,000 points after $5,000 spend within three months. No annual fee for the first year.

The American Express 50,000 point sign-up bonus with no annual fee during the first year has returned from hiatus.

Earn three points per dollar on airfare and double points on gas purchases (in the USA). The bonus points will post after $5,000 in minimum spending within three months. There is no annual fee the first year and $175 per ...

We had an absolute blast in Cape Town. Interestingly enough, The Points Guy recently visited Cape Town, and he had just as many great things to say about it as we did. However, after all the great times we had, it was time to go to the Maldives! I had booked a ticket with American Airlines miles. The ticket was CPT-JNB-AUH-MLE. We had a flight around lunch time from Cape Town to Johannesburg booked on British Airways, operated by Comair.

I'm not ...

British Airways has announced the impending closure of its Jacksonville call center, displacing 280 jobs. Sadly, this is not an April Fools' joke.

The news broke last week, but a conversation I had today with a British Airways call center agent brought the issue to the forefront of my thoughts. I was booking an AerLingus ticket for a client (Boston to Dublin is still one heck of a good deal for 12.5K Avios each way in economy class with a tiny fuel surcharge and there is ample award ...

This Spring, British Airways is giving everyone the chance to take $65 for economy or $135 for premium economy off ANY British Airway flight (Or IAG flight) that departs from the United States. Codeshare flights are NOT included, but IAG flights are, meaning routing must only be on BA, Iberia or OpenSkies metal. If the routing includes a codeshare flight or a connection on a partner, it does not qualify for this promotion. In order to take advantage of this bonus offer, tickets must be booked ...

Come December 31st, now just two days away, the bmi Diamond Club will shut its doors for most of the world. If you've neglected transferring any destination miles from your bmi account to your British Airways Executive Club account, it is now or never. Same with a status match.

After numerous e-mails and even a couple snail-mail letters from bmi, I finally got around to transferring my remaining 379 miles and requesting a status match last week. It did not take long to do, though I ...