I’ve always been obsessed with “maximizing” my miles and points. For a typical award redemption, I want to fly as many segments and try as many products as possible, even though it hasn’t meant the best itineraries. In December, I racked up 40,000 BIS (butt-in-seat) miles over a span of two weeks. Most people (and…
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How You Know You’ve Been Flying Too Much…
I’m in New York now, finally getting a breather from all the flights I’ve been doing for the past few days. I landed at 2:30pm a few days ago, having either been at an airport, a lounge, or a flight for a period of three days. During that time, I’ve flown just over 16,000 miles…
Reader Suggestions – What Should I Write About?
These next two weeks I’ll be a BoardingArea “featured blogger”. That means my posts will show up in the upper spots on the BA homepage. However, I can’t think of anything particularly piquing my interest that I want to write about right now. That’s why I’m asking you! Is there anything you want me to…
Twitter and Turkish Airlines
Disclaimer: This is totally a FirstWorldProblem. Please keep this in mind while reading! Twitter is extremely useful when you want to keep current with what’s happening in the miles and points world. It is probably the best way to stay on-top of things without the snark that you get from forums like Flyertalk. Many deals…
Free Australian ETA for Flyertalk Members
I love Australia from the brief bits of Sydney and Melbourne I’ve seen, and I can’t wait to return. As you may or may not know, Canadian and American nationals are required to get an ETA (Electronic Travel Authority) before boarding their flights for entrance into Australia. The ETA allows multiple entries of up to…
Canadian Mint Manufacture Spend Opportunities?
Frequent Miler posted about an opportunity for Canadians to purchase collectors coins at face value, then redepositing or cashing them out at a bank. The Canadian Mint occasionally has silver coins which sell for their face value with free shipping online, which are available here. These coins have been around for awhile, so it’s not the…
Confession: How I Travel
Disclaimer: Please be aware that offers for credit cards referenced in this post may have changed since the time of publication. I have a confession to make. I’m a trust fund baby who has 16 million dollars to spend on first class suites thanks to sending a Nigerian prince a wire transfer and getting quite…
I’m Moving!
As you may or may not know, BoardingArea has had a bit of tech trouble with the boardingarea.com/blogname sites, so we are all moving to blogname.boardingarea.com sites. Thus, the BA tech team is porting all my stuff over to the new site which will be canadiankilometers.boardingarea.com. If you have bookmarks and RSS reads check to…
Why You Can Afford to be Cheap
If there’s one thing I love in the world, it’s not Lufthansa First Class as some of you might believe, but my readers. Because I know sometimes I don’t say it enough, but it’s true, I do. Now with that in mind, the only thing I love almost as much as you guys is saving…
Vancouver Miles/Points Meetup this Sunday!
A reader sent me an email asking me to have a miles/points chat on Sunday. So I thought, why not make it a group thing? I’m thinking of hosting something downtown on Sunday at 3pm. A few people have already given me a tentative yes, so shoot me an email (canadiankilometers <at> gmail.com) if you’re…
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