Tips Why Points+Pay is Almost Always a Bad Idea Few things pain me as much as hearing in casual conversation with someone that they have used hard earned airline miles on a Points+Pay ticket. The conversation is an eventual rollercoaster, it
Tips The (Hidden) Cost to Aquire Airline Miles I have said it before, and I will say it again travelling on miles & points is not free. Every mile you earn costs you something, whether you realise it or not. This
Tips Guide Series: Tips for using Lifemiles Lifemiles is a really interesting frequent flyer program that is known for often running aggressive promotions on the bulk purchase of miles. When used correctly these promotions can offer great value for purchasing
Tips First Class vs. Business Class - How should you use your points I often get asked why I 'waste' my points on First Class travel rather use them for Business Class travel. So before I start, let me be clear, this article is going to
Tips Case Study: Business class for cheaper than economy! I always love it when I manage to get a good deal! As I have said before the miles & points game isn’t about travelling for free it is all about getting
News Easy & Cheap Way to Get 16,000 Qantas Points Qantas Assure is running another promotion with Hello Fresh until the 7th of March that allows you to earn 16,000 Qantas points by ordering two meal delivery boxes. Hello Fresh is one
Tips Sometimes it Pays to Hang Up and Call Again! These days you can do most things related to miles & points online, but sometimes you still need to call a contact centre. Especially if you want to book complex itineraries not available
Tips Using PayPal to Avoid AMEX Fees When Paying Bills People often ask me how I manage to earn so many miles & points and there is no quick and easy answer to that question. It is really about taking every opportunity to
Tips Everything You Need to Know About Cancelling Award Bookings Airfares are cheap these days. You can often pick up discount economy tickets for a steal, the downside is that all these cheap airfares are completely non-refundable. As a result, most people have
Tips Get Velocity Gold Status Faster With Family Pooling It is no secret that I am a big fan of Virgin Australia's Velocity frequent flyer program. Whilst Virgin is not a member of any airline alliance they have some great partners with
Tips How To Get a Free 'Upgrade' to EconomyX on Virgin Domestic Flights Back in March 2017, Virgin Australia introduced a new premium offering called EconomyX, which basically provides some additional leg room and a way to upsell what was previously the bulkhead and exit rows
News United MileagePlus 100% Bonus Miles As luck would have it, 24 hours after I posted an article about buying miles & points in Australia, United is running a new promotion offering a massive 100% bonus until the 12th
Tutorials Guide Series: Buying Miles & Points in Australia for Cheap Premium Cabin Flights So a little-known trick that can sometimes get you super cheap premium cabin fares, is to actually purchase miles & points and then redeem them for award flight as opposed to directly buying
Tutorials Guide Series: Redeeming Velocity Points for Etihad Apartments As discussed in the previous Guide Series post on finding award availability, one of the great ways to secure award flights is to leverage the partner relationships of airlines to secure award seats
Tips The Showdown - Qantas QFF vs. Virgin Velocity Someone recently asked me in the comments on my first Guide Series post about Getting Started with Mile & Points in Australia, why I picked Velocity and if that was just a personal
Tutorials Guide Series: Tips for Finding Award Availability In my getting started guide I touched on the golden rule of miles & points which is to only use them for true award seats and not any-time or points + pay tickets. Now
Tutorials Guide Series: Getting Started With Miles & Points in Australia I thought it would be good to write a getting started post that addresses many of the questions around miles & points from what they are, how to earn them and most importantly
Tutorials Introducing the Guide Series Over the comming weeks I will be working on a series of guides, tutorials and tips to help people get started with miles & points or maximise thier use. The guides will focus
Tips Useful Tools For Award Travel I often find myself talking to people about some of the tools I use to help maximise my usage of miles & points. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but these
Travel Why I don't horde and save frequent flyer miles I often find myself talking to friends or extended family about frequent flyer miles. This usually comes up in conversation as people have heard about one of our holidays or we are talking
