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Best Way To Redeem Your Airline Miles

  There are so many ways that you can use your airline miles. Moreover, there are so many online resources that can teach you ways to use your airline miles. From redeeming your United miles for cash, travel or accessing a lounge to using them to upgrade your paid airline tickets, you can do many things by using your airline miles. The most common, or basic, way to redeem your miles points is to plan a family vacation. A family trip to Orlando can be budget friendly as there are many airlines that operate to and from Orlando every day. Hawaii has many flights too, but due to being a popular destination, it can be pretty expensive on holidays. Whereas you can find broader options for international travel to redeem airline miles. Some of the major U.S. airlines, like Delta Airlines, American Airlines, and United Airlines, offer premium economy class for international travellers. This premium economy class offers a better experience than a simple economy ticket. These tickets are also

Using Airline Miles Most Efficiently With Family

  In my previous blogs I have already mentioned some tips for best frequent flyer programs however, never talked about tips for families. The most common concern among most of the families is about reducing the cost as more members per vacation means more money spent on vacation. If you are looking for ways to use your airline miles in most efficient way for your upcoming family vacation, try these following tips:   Include your kids You can include your kids in your airline miles program or loyalty programs. This should be the first step you take while signing up for a program.   Shop smartly While booking airline tickets divide your purchases equally between the paid and award seats. This way you will be able to consume your reward point most efficiently. You will also earn points on your paid tickets.   Split Itineraries Another smart move that you can make while making bookings for your family vacation is to split itineraries. Possibly you won’t find enough reward

What Are Some Popular Frequent Flyer Programs?

  The most popular frequent flyer program is SkyMiles. SkyMiles is associated with Delta airline. There is no joining fee for this program and it is very easy to join it, all you need to do is visit the official website of Delta and sign up. Moreover, the requirements for the membership are also very simple with minimum 3000 dollars expenditure and 30 qualifying flight segments per year for US passport holders. SkyMiles has also won the best program for consecutive 3 years just because of the benefits that they offer which are just best when compared to others. There are so many options available for the members to redeem their airline miles when it comes to Delta’s SkyMiles program.   Another popular frequent flyer program is by American Airlines and Oneworld Airlines which is AAdvantage. The requirements for joining the membership program are similar to the SkyMiles. AAdvantage program also allow users to spend their miles and point with Hawaiian, Etihad, Alaska and Air Tahiti

Best Airlines For First-Class Travel Experience

No matter what the purpose of your flying to Europe from U.S., it is a long flight and so it is important to choose a comfortable flight not just with services they provide but also the benefits they offer with your frequent flyer airline miles. Check out the best airlines to choose from that offer best services and airline miles.   Air France Air France covers almost all the European countries if you are traveling from United States. They also fly to Asia, Middle East and Africa. In their first-class passengers’ services, they provide luxurious lounge before take-off, tasty meals, cocktails, spa, relaxing seats with personal space and many other amazing services. Business class flights also offer a plenty of room to work, reading lamps, telephones and many other premium services. Frequent flyer mile program of Air France is also known as flying blue and offer airline miels at the lowest prices in this industry.   British Airways This airline covers almost 170 destinati

Earn More Miles With Your Reward Earning Card

  First thing that you should do right away is to link your frequent-flyer account with your airline card. Without doing this, many airlines won’t even recognize you as if you qualify for free checked bags or not. Moreover, with many airlines like JetBlue and United Airlines, you will need to pay for your airline ticket with your airline card only in order to qualify for free checked bag benefit.   While traveling abroad you can use airline cards as there is no foreign transaction fees on many airline cards. This is because you get reward points for every single airline purchase that you make with your airline cards, it often ranges from 2 to more miles per dollar spent. So, you should consider using your airline card for purchasing airline tickets, in-flight purchases and other expenditures related to airlines. Basically, enhance your card by using and learning about the features that your airline frequent flyer card is linked to.   Other cards that you can consider There ar

Top Airline Reward Programs

There are so many surveys that conducts around the world that gives ranking to the reward programs of airlines. These rankings are based on the ease of redeeming their airline miles. There are some other parameters also. Today I will be discussing the top performing airline reward programs that always rank higher and have something special to offer their clients. These programs always keep on upgrading their programs to make it more exciting for their loyal customers. Let’s discuss them without any further delay.   Airline with best reward programs for frequent flyers It is surprising to sea that not any of the big airline could do what a domestic airline like Southwest has done with returned 100 percent availability of reward seats for their frequent flyers. Some of the other airlines that are in very close competition are Air Canada, Turkish Airways, JetBlue and Lufthansa.   High value programs with low cost The budget airlines performs better than expensive airlines when

A Brief History of Airline Miles Programs

  You might wonder how these miles rewards and point that you have been collecting from years by flying and staying in hotels cam into existence. United Airlines is first documented airline that started tracking their customers. In 1972, they started the first flyer reward program for their customers. Unlike today when we get incentives, airlines used to appreciate their loyal customers with awards.   The flyers program got a boost in 1979 when Texas International Airlines started tracking the miles of travel instead of counting the tickets purchased. Till 80s many big airlines like Delta, Western, American, Air Canada and British Airways also joined the league and that’s when the flyer programs and incentives for frequent flyers got to another level. According to a research more than 14 trillion frequent flyer points collected by flyers till 2005.   Later, the partnerships of Airlines and Credit card companies gave birth to another revolution in flyer programs. This partnershi

New To Cash For Airline Miles? Learn Types Of Rewards

  Just like crypto, bonds, shares, foreign currencies and money, your travel miles and reward points can pay your travels. You can also earn some cash by selling your airline miles and Amex reward points. However, each travel reward points have their own value just like different foreign currencies. If you are new to cash for miles journey you may want to know about different types of travel rewards mentioned bellow.   Airline miles rewards There are many airlines and so there are airline miles specific to each airline. United MileagePlus miles is one such airline mile. However, to earn united miles you need to register for frequent flyer account. You can also get a co-branded credit card of united miles. With such credit cards you will be able to earn united miles by even using it for general purchases also. Miles earned through traveling in united airlines depends on various factors like seat you booked, the distance of your journey and the cost you have paid to book your airli