The wife and I target long weekends to get cheap airfares to accumulate elite qualifying miles in order to keep our status. Due to my being a Million Miler on United, we (spouse matches your Million Miler status) are perennially Gold there and there is not any point in trying for miles there unless I think that…
American Airlines often comes out with promotions around Veterans’ Day to donate through them to certain military charities for an increased amount of miles. A normal charity dollar earns 10 miles, but through 10 July, you can get 15 per $. Now they are having one for Memorial Day as well. The mix of charities…
As you well might know, I’m a big fan of not paying fees, particularly annual fees on credit cards. And and you also might know, because I write about it all the time, if you’re active duty (and sometimes even a reservist or a guardsman), you can get your annual fees waived on most if…
In my continuing series on military credit card benefits utilizing the SCRA (Servicemember’s Civil Relief Act), I’d like to go over using those benefits with Bank of America credit cards. Thus far, we’ve gone over the following banks: How to get your annual fees waived on: American Express Barclaycard Chase …
So everyone knows the basics of earning miles and redeeming them for a free flight, right? Well, here are some tips on using those miles in a smarter manner and for ways that are applicable to military flyers. A key fact to remember is that dollar prices of miles almost always rise the closer you…
Courtesy of my friend Brian who writes The Gate, here is a charity drive sponsored by Coca-Cola in cooperation with Kroger Supermarkets. It is called Honoring Our Heroes and they have a two-fold drive. The first is to donate 100,000 cans of Coke to the troops which you can help accomplish by simply clicking here. …
Well as simple as anything in the military is… As long as you know the rules, you can profit from them, but if you are not aware of them, you will certainly be disappointed in the results. You may think it is sacrilegious for a frequent flyer to advocate using Space A travel, but it does have its uses – such as being almost free to use. It is a great service to use if you are young and don’t have much money or you are retired and have more time than money. I remember using it on my honeymoon to travel all over Europe. We flew from Travis AFB (I was stationed at Ft. Ord at the time) taking two days to finally reach Frankfurt. we spent a few days each at Frankfurt, Naples, and Mildenhall using them as bases to take day trips to various adventures along the Rhine or to Pompei. We did run into the main problem when you take Space A. That being that we ended up only able to…
Preface: Although this program says Active Duty, it really is for active military including those from the Reserve Component. Go to any Park Service gate and show your ID. They will give you two passes, so you can give one to one of your dependents. I got mine at ‘Ohe’O (Seven Sacred Pools) in the…
My final post in my SE Asia trip reports, sorry it took so long! This was one of the coolest parts of our trip, the business class flight home. Here are my previous posts: Review: United Business Class 757-200 JFK to San Francisco Review: United Business Class 747 San Francisco to Hong Kong Review:…
One of the most popular subjects that Andy has written about is the ability to get hefty credit card fees waived for Service Members. Obviously, anything that can save our readers hundreds of dollars a year while still getting great benefits and thousands of miles and points should be taken advantage of. The process, however,…
