One of my favourite things in the Hobby™ is stacking promotions. In this case, I pieced together several promotions going on all at once to get a humongous discount on a Hyatt Gift Card. How? By leveraging two gift card promotions, triple dipping with rebate programs and cashback, and utilizing a category bonus. Let’s read…
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Massive Aeroplan Pricing “Sale”… Happening Right Now!
Update: Aeroplan has removed the multi-city price option. Looks like deal is dead. Yesterday I talked about the new Aeroplan pricing system and the new method that the computer uses to auto-validate routings. Many things have changed, yet during the engine swap something very interesting has happened. I looked into it further, and it just…
Aeroplan Fuel Dump: Lufthansa Style
Everyone loves Lufthansa First Class – it’s the “poster boy” of travel hacking, for better or for worse. It’s easily the most accessible first class product using miles so has become almost become the default first class airline, so to speak. However with the past United MileagePlus devaluation and US Airways switching from Star Alliance…
Revisiting Aeroplan Fuel Dumping
I talk about Aeroplan’s fuel surcharges a lot because they really are one of the main downsides to Aeroplan redemptions as a whole – especially if they add over $1000 to the cost of your award redemption. Most of the time, you’d want to pick airlines that don’t charge fuel surcharges, but depending on the…
Award Maximizing: 90k Business/First Class to Oceania
My favourite redemption (which is rather complicated) is 80-90k miles to Australia, well below the cost of using most types of miles. I did this type of trip back in August, and many people have asked me to show how to book it rather than vaguely hinting about it. So I’ll try to elaborate here…
Award Maximizing: Virgin Around the World with Skypesos
SkypesosMiles are derided by many to be the worst points/miles currency. No international first class redemptions. Horrible online pricing engine. Clueless agents. 3-tier award structure which means 325,000 miles for a transpacific/transatlantic redemption because it’s extremely difficult to find low seats. I’ve never been really interested in SkyMiles for those reasons, except that my award…
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