How To Get US Credit Cards – Part 1 – Introduction
This entry is part 1 of 7 in the series How To Get US Credit CardsIf you’ve been at this game for a while, you may feel like the odds are against you if you want to continue earning miles/points at the same pace as when you first got into this hobby … and that’s
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Ever Wonder How Airlines Shoot Promotional Videos
We’ve all seen those gorgeous shots of airplanes mid-flight … either in the inflight magazine or in a commercial but did you ever wonder how they actually do it? It’s not CGI … Take a look at the process that Air Canada undertook to promote their new livery.
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Understanding Airline Alliances and Partnerships
One of the more confusing concepts that new Travel Hackers face is the concept of the Airline Alliance. Inevitably, one of the more common questions from people trying to get into the game is “if I collect Aeroplan, does that mean I can only fly with Air Canada?”. Quick answer, no … no it does
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How To Get The Marriott 5 Night Package
I’ll caveat this post with a very large YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary) because there have been plenty of people that have not been able to secure the Marriott 5 Night Travel Package that I wrote about in my Arbitrage post a while back. Since the time of publishing that article, I have been able
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Potential Game Changer
The Background Veterans of the Travel Hacking scene know that Visa and MasterCard love to upsell customers to their elite cards like the Visa Infinite or the World Elite Mastercard. For consumers, it’s great because these cards tend to have the same annual fees as other cards but with added benefits like travel insurances, purchase protection
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Why You Should NEVER Order More Than A Category 1-5 Marriott Travel Package
Early on in the blog, I wrote about the Marriott/SPG Merger and a pretty lucrative arbitrage opportunity. I won’t rehash that here but suffice it to say, I have taken advantage of the opportunity … While I didn’t have a specific redemption in mind when I purchased these Travel Packages (I was really more after the
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Air China Now Bookable on Aeroplan!
Air China has been notoriously absent on Aeroplan’s searches for what seems like forever. This leaves a BIG gap for those that want to do a mini-RTW trip to Asia because … well … China’s HUGE. Aeroplan claimed that there were issues with IT compatibility but a lot of people think that Aeroplan may have been
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Saving Searches for Award.Flights
One of the most often overlooked but incredibly useful features of Award.Flights is the ability to save your searches for easy and fast execution of your queries later. I have found it invaluable to help semi-automate my searches. While it ultimately is not a useful as ExperFlyer’s email alerts, it certainly is very handy …
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Data Point – AMEX Membership Rewards to BA Avios – Transfer Time
Being in the West typically means that Avios isn’t really a good option to transfer your Membership Rewards Points but to help me in my intra-Australia flights with Qantas, I needed to top up my Avios balance by 14,700 Avios. The Process Like every other transfer from Membership Rewards to a loyalty program, the process
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An Introduction to Frankenflights
Those that know me in real life and those of you that have been reading every post from the blog, know that I have been planning a crazy luxurious trip around the world (literally) for December. I must admit that it has been a time consuming, sometimes soul-crushing experience. I’ve realized that the time of
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