Most of you are probably aware of the fact that Southwest program will undergo major negative changes at the end of the month. Nancy has highlighted some of them in her recent post, and today I want to focus specifically on credit expiration. As of now, Southwest credits don’t expire, but that will change very […]

Just a few weeks from now, my family is supposed to leave for what (hopefully) will be an adventure of a lifetime. We are planning to visit Peru and Easter island on the same trip. The problem? I only had a total of 11 days for both places and that included an overnight in Miami […]

Who doesn’t love a good clickbait title now and again, right? Anyway, a bit over a month ago, I wrote a post on agonizing between applying for Amex Gold and Amex Platinum cards. It was completely silly of me and I said so in the post. The winner was 175k points offer on Amex Platinum […]

If you’ve been waiting to apply for 100k points offer on Chase Sapphire Preferred (will likely expire on May 12th), you are in luck. Right now, you can get an extra $300 on top of the signup bonus by using Rakuten shopping portal. I believe Doctorofcredit blog was the first to post on this opportunity.  […]

Well, that was unexpected! This morning Award Wallet was the first blog (to my knowledge) to report on this new arrangement. As someone who is planning  a trip to Japan  next year, I was very excited by this announcement. I don’t have a ton of Jet Blue points (about 75k), but I can transfer my […]

Now and again, I like to feature real-life situations, where I get to help someone who dabbles in this hobby occasionally (or not at all). So, when a relative has recently reached out for assistance  with covering flights to South America, I figured I might as well write a post. So, here is the situation. […]