No-Notice Devaluation: United Increases Close-In Saver Awards: This is a bummer for last-minute award tickets that are now 20k instead of 15k for close-in flight dates. See this post on View From the Wing. Black Friday and Cyber Week Travel Deals 2025: I love how “Black Friday” sales start earlier and earlier each year. Check out […]

This week, my daughter’s school district released the 2026-2027 school calendar. This calendar is something I gleefully anticipate every year! Seriously, it’s like Christmas morning for this travel planner. Calendar Changes and Takeaways The big change for my family with this calendar release is that it now only applies to my youngest child. This next […]

Two years ago, my husband and I each signed up for the Barclays Lufthansa credit card when the bonus was 100k miles. We got a windfall of 200k total miles! I spent 71k miles from each of our accounts for business class flights on partner Asiana Airlines from Hong Kong to San Francisco in 2024. […]

New Chase Transfer Bonuses: Chase recently added a 40% transfer bonus to Virgin Atlantic an a 70% transfer bonus to Marriott. I’ve updated the November 2025 Transfer Bonuses post to reflect these additions. Texas Scores World’s Largest Cruise Ship!: Royal Caribbean just announced that the world’s largest cruise ship, Icon of the Seas, will begin […]

Just in time for holiday spending and year-end expenses like property taxes and HOA fees, one of my favorite credit cards now has an increased welcome bonus of 100,000 miles! Capital One Venture X The Capital One Venture X card (affiliate link) now has a 100k bonus! 100k bonus after spending $10k in the first […]

Two of the hottest business credit cards with 90,000-point welcome bonuses expire this week! These higher offers are only valid through this Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 9 a.m. ET.  My original post here: If you’ve been waiting for the right time to add a business card, this is it. Hot new offers just dropped! […]