Airline Programs

  • Cathay Pacific Review: Cathay Pacific Business Class CNS-HKG & HKG-LAX

    Review: Cathay Pacific Business Class CNS-HKG & HKG-LAX

    Image courtesy: InSapphoWeTrust  I love flying Cathay Pacific. Any opportunity to fly with the airline feels almost like Christmas morning. Cathay’s business class product isn’t the nicest way I’ve flown – that not would probably go to Fiji Airways, despite their seats not quite laying flat, or to Japan Airlines, for their stellar service and […]

  • Frontier Air Flying Frontier Like a Pro

    Flying Frontier Like a Pro

    Image courtesy: InSapphoWeTrust  Some flyers may remember Frontier as the friendly, Denver-based airline featuring various wildlife on the tails of their fleet. Frontier has now expanded its, well, frontiers, and is servicing locations both from Denver, as well as new hubs like Trenton, New Jersey. The carrier completed a transformation of its model from a […]

  • Allegiant Flying Allegiant Like a Pro

    Flying Allegiant Like a Pro

    Image courtesy: Louis  Many frequent flyers shudder at the thought of flying with one of the new brand of ultra-low-cost carriers like Allegiant that have gained considerable traction over the past few years. However, there’s not much to fear – and a lot of opportunity available – to those who know what to expect, and how […]

  • Amtrak Planning An Amtrak Adventure

    Planning An Amtrak Adventure

    Image courtesy: Bruce Fingerhood  I wasn’t happy about the prospect of flying right home. I was planning to fly up to Chicago from Jacksonville with my girlfriend to accompany her for a grad school interview and had booked our flights on Southwest. For the flight up, I used Southwest gift cards purchased using our American […]

  • Aer Lingus Using Avios For Transatlantic Award Flights 2

    Using Avios For Transatlantic Award Flights

    Image courtesy: BriYYZ  Reader Pamela recently sent us a trip request, hoping we could help her find the best way to use her British Airways Avios to travel from New York to Paris. She wants to bring her 5 year-old, who has fallen in love with Paris from some of her favorite movies. Talk about […]

  • Alaska Getting To Fiji With Miles & Points 4

    Getting To Fiji With Miles & Points

    We received an interesting reader submission from Betsy, who wants to travel to Fiji sometime during the Fijian summer, lasting from December to March. It’s a bucket list trip for her, and I’m sure it’s on many other people’s lists, too! I was fortunate enough to spend just a few hours in Fiji in July […]

  • British Airways Best Mileage Redemptions For Domestic Flights

    Best Mileage Redemptions For Domestic Flights

    Image courtesy: Southwest  Our focus has been clearly biased toward international trips lately, but there’s no doubt many of the most meaningful trips people would like to take can simply involve visiting family on the other side of the country or seeing a part of our own backyard for the first time. When it comes […]

  • American Airlines From Jacksonville To Germany

    From Jacksonville To Germany

    Image courtesy: Diego Cambiaso  Trip Information It’s been a while since our last reader trip, so today we’ll combine two similar requests to provide a few great answers! Ute want to travel from Jacksonville to Dusseldorf, Germany this November to visit family. Roger wants to travel to Munich next Spring with his wife to relive […]

  • American Airlines Review: JAL Business Class • NRT-JFK 1

    Review: JAL Business Class • NRT-JFK

    This post is part of Project Pacific Circle, a journey of more than 25,000 miles from Orlando to Los Angeles, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong and Japan. Along the way, I flew on some of the world’s best airlines and shared my thoughts on the ground and in the air. The cash cost for […]

  • Airport Lounges Review: JAL Sakura Lounge, Tokyo Narita

    Review: JAL Sakura Lounge, Tokyo Narita

    This post is part of Project Pacific Circle, a journey of more than 25,000 miles from Orlando to Los Angeles, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong and Japan. Along the way, I flew on some of the world’s best airlines and shared my thoughts on the ground and in the air. The cash cost for […]

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