Disclaimer: Please be aware that offers for credit cards referenced in this post may have changed since the time of publication and may no longer be available. Many readers have emailed me asking about what Canadian Credit cards to get, so I’ve decided to write a post listing all the good credit card offers. I…
Lifemiles Transfer Promotion July 2014
Avianca LifeMiles is offering a transfer miles bonus again for July 3 to 17, 2014. During this promotion, the cost to generate miles drops again from 3 cents per mile to 1.5 cents, which is the classic purchase rate for LifeMiles during both buy and transfer promotions. Lifemiles runs either a purchase or transfer bonus…
Maximizing SPG Transfer Bonus to AA and USDM
SPG Transfer Bonus Promotion to American and US Airways Currently, American and US Airways are offering a 20% mileage bonus for miles transferred from Starwood Preferred Guest. You can transfer SPG points up to 79,999 at a time; however, the best ratio is moving blocks of 60,000 SPG points. This promotion gives you an additional 15,000…
Air Creebec Aeroplan Redemptions
Continuing my round-the-clock coverage of everything beautiful about Aeroplan, let’s move on to one of the eastern partners, Air Creebec. As their name (sort of) suggests, they are Aeroplan’s resident Quebecois carrier (at least if you want to go anywhere north of Sept-Iles). Fun fact: they are entirely owned by the Cree, one of the…
Tracking KLM New World Business Class
It’s no secret that SkyTeam doesn’t get much love amongst us travel-hacker folk, so I thought I would take this chance to talk about the progress of KLM’s New Business Class rollout that is currently going underway. Late last year, KLM announced a new World Business Class product (if that name sounds familiar, it was…
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…
When you do get a great hotel deal…
I’ve been loving Hyatt, their benefits, and Diamond elite status ever since I started their challenge. A few months ago, however, I snagged a fantastic deal on a suite at the Fairfax, a Luxury Collection Hotel in DC. The rate was only around ~$70 a night. The room has fairly “dated” decor, but certainly it’s…
Good Deal on Czech CSA OK Plus Miles to Iceland
Nothing says a good use of a beautiful afternoon like pouring through obscure SkyTeam award charts 😉 (ask me anything about Saudia Alfursan Miles, try me) but it looks like there seems to be a bit of a sweet spot for redeeming Czech CSA OK Plus miles to Iceland. Unlike just about every other zone-based…
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…
Introducing the Ultimate Aeroplan Guide
Aeroplan is one of really the only significant Canadian frequent flyer program so it’s no surprise my blog focuses heavily on them and what they do and/or can do. My posts on/about Aeroplan do get a little scattered everywhere though, so I thought it would be useful to consolidate them into kind of like a resource…
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