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Awayz Review: Easily Search Hotel Award Availability Across All Programs
Awayz Review: Easily Search Hotel Award Availability Across All Programs
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Awayz by Odynn is a comprehensive travel search platform, offering both cash and award hotel and flight queries. The flight side is well developed but technically still in beta, while the hotel portion is fully functional covering seven hotel chains. Anyone can try searching five hotels or flights with a free trial, and 72 hour trip passes give you 50 searches for your next trip.

Samantha Holland
Samantha Holland

Reviewed byJT Genter

A Complete History of Airline and Hotel Transfer Bonuses
A Complete History of Airline and Hotel Transfer Bonuses
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It's always an exciting prospect when a loyalty program is offering a transfer bonus to one of its many transfer partners. But it's important to have context about past transfer bonuses to understand if the current bonus is worth pursing — or whether it makes sense to hold out for a better one. The best way to know this? By having a complete overview of all the past transfer bonuses between programs. That's why we've put together this complete history of airline and hotel transfer bonuses, helping you make an informed decision that's best for you.

Andrew George Bradshaw
Andrew George Bradshaw

Reviewed byRyan Smith

Take 2 Minutes To Enroll and Save up to 35% on Business Card Purchases
Take 2 Minutes To Enroll and Save up to 35% on Business Card Purchases
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Visa SavingsEdge is a valuable program exclusively available to those with a Visa-branded business credit card. To take advantage of select perks, like discounts with a range of merchants, you need to enroll your card. And if you enrolled through the SavingsEdge website before May 17, 2024, you'll need to do it again to continue saving. Here's how a few minutes could give you 35% cash back.

Tyler Glatt
Tyler Glatt

Reviewed byRyan Smith

768 American Airlines (Plus 62 LATAM) Routes You Can Book for 4,500 Alaska Mileage Plan Miles
768 American Airlines (Plus 62 LATAM) Routes You Can Book for 4,500 Alaska Mileage Plan Miles
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Alaska Airlines recently replaced its unified partner award chart with a trio of distance- and region-based tables. While this change eliminated several well-beloved sweet spots, it created new sweet spots. A prime example is intra-Americas routes under 700 miles long. On these itineraries, you'll redeem just 4,500 Mileage Plan miles. Let's explore this sweet spot, showing you 768 American Airlines and 62 LATAM routes you can book for just 4,500 Alaska miles.

Tyler Glatt
Tyler Glatt

Reviewed byJT Genter

You Shouldn’t Cancel a Credit Card Within Your First Year of Membership. Here’s Why.
You Shouldn’t Cancel a Credit Card Within Your First Year of Membership. Here’s Why.
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Credit card issuers want your business. And to get it, they'll offer you big welcome bonuses complete with points, miles, or cash back. But what happens when you're ready to move on from your card? Of all the things you could do, you shouldn't cancel your credit card within the first year of membership. Here's why you'd be wise to avoid canceling a credit card less than a year after opening it.

Tyler Glatt
Tyler Glatt

Reviewed byRyan Smith

462 Delta Award Routes That You Can Book for Just 7,500 Points
462 Delta Award Routes That You Can Book for Just 7,500 Points
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Delta SkyMiles can be a frustrating program. Sure, some domestic Delta economy awards can only cost a few thousand SkyMiles. Other times flights can climb astronomically high. Thankfully travelers have a way to get predictable pricing on Delta award flights: Booking through partner airlines. One of the best sweet spots for booking Delta awards is Virgin Atlantic Flying Club. Here are the 462 Delta routes that you can book using just 7,500 Virgin points — and the many ways you can accumulate Virgin points.

JT Genter
JT Genter
9 Ways To Prevent Credit Card Fraud When Traveling Abroad
9 Ways To Prevent Credit Card Fraud When Traveling Abroad
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Traveling internationally can be one of the greatest experiences of your life — but can also turn into a nightmare in an instance. As we roll into 2024 and an ever-increasing digital age, scammers and hackers are evolving in their abilities to commit credit card fraud. That's why it's important to protect yourself in any way possible. In this article, we dive into 9 different ways to avoid getting scammed during your upcoming travel abroad so you don't encounter the headaches I had from a recent trip.

Andrew George Bradshaw
Andrew George Bradshaw

Reviewed byRyan Smith

Claiming Compensation for a Delayed, Overbooked, or Canceled Flight in the US and EU
Claiming Compensation for a Delayed, Overbooked, or Canceled Flight in the US and EU
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Flight delays and cancellations can be expensive and stressful. Fortunately, there are some protections in place to make sure you don’t get stuck with the bill when irregular operations force you to change your plans. If you know your rights, you can avoid worrying about covering extra costs out of pocket and make sure you extract the full compensation to which you’re entitled.

Andrew George Bradshaw
Andrew George Bradshaw

Reviewed byRyan Smith

683 United Award Routes That You Can Book for Just 6,000 Aeroplan Points
683 United Award Routes That You Can Book for Just 6,000 Aeroplan Points
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One of the most consistent ways to redeem Aeroplan points for great value is right here in the United States: on United Airlines flights under 500 miles. For these flights, you'll pay just 6,000 Aeroplan points. Here's a list of the 683 routes where we've found this excellent award rate, plus a review of Air Canada's transfer partners and other ways to get Aeroplan points.

Tyler Glatt
Tyler Glatt

Reviewed byJT Genter