USAA is my favorite bank, and one of my favorite companies, for many reasons – customer service, ease of use, portability, and benefits. One of the lesser known benefits that USAA provides concerns rental cars, specifically discounts with certain companies – Avis, Budget, Enterprise, and Hertz. Also, and this is huge, USAA provides primary liability…
While much is written on getting airline points, hotel points can be just as valuable to you and your wallet. Honestly, I think more is written about airline points just because they are easier to get. they have better CC deals, you get a bunch every time you fly, etc., but think of it in…
Today is our first day over the next two weeks as Boardingarea.com’s featured blog, and from COL Glenn, the founder of this blog, and myself (Andy), Welcome, and thank you for checking us out. Hopefully we can elucidate many of the perks that servicemembers can take advantage of when when travelling, and convince you that…
Gang, I know we haven’t posted a lot lately, but Andy and I have been building up to a big event. Each year, Boarding Area makes each blog a “featured blog” which means we get the big picture at the top when we post. This period runs from 28 July – 10 August. I did…
As per View from the Wing, the card with the biggest bonus out there is back! For the past 6 months, people have been taking advantage of 100k AA miles after $10k in spend in 3 months and a $250 annual fee ($450 minus a $200 statement credit). But all of a sudden, a couple…
I have to apologize to all our readers for my post yesterday (this is Andy, not COL Glenn, BTW). As you may know, I have another blog over at Saverocity, called Millitary Finance, which is more personal finance stuff than frequent flying. There is also a forum there, with a particularly popular subforum about manufactured…
EDIT: THE MODERATOR AT SAVEROCITY HAS ASKED ME NOT TO EMAIL YOU, AND SINCE THAT’S WHERE I GOT THE TRICK, I WILL OF COURSE COMPLY. PLEASE SIGN UP AT THE SAVEROCITY FORUMS TO ACCESS IT, AS I AM NOT GOING TO INDEPENDENTLY REVEAL IT. I APOLOGIZE FOR THE MIX-UP. We all know how awesome…
In case you were not aware, the TSA fee built into every ticket purchase will go up on 21 Jul 2014 for all tickets bought after that date. The existing fee is $2.50 a segment with a max of $10 for one RT ticket. Now the new plan is for a flat $5.60 each way,…
I have blogged a number of times about LoungeBuddy, the App to help you find a lounge in over 500 airports including the location of USO Clubs. 500+ is pretty outstanding when you realize that they are just reaching their first year anniversary. They even were named in the top 100 of companies in Entrepreneur magazine!…
My wife and I just got back from two days at Caesar’s Atlantic City; our son is at his grandparents, so we thought we’d get away for two days to the shore. This is not a review of the hotel, because honestly I don’t think we’d go there again. It was nice enough, but Atlantic…
