Author: glenn

Getting Bumped for Fun and Profit

My plan for this blog is to alternate between posts explaining the basics of frequent flyer programs and more advanced techniques for those military members that are already proficient at maximizing your benefits.  For this post, I am going to talk about both involuntary and voluntary denied boarding. If an airplane has 100 seats, the…

Dispelling Some Myths

We all know the military runs on RUMINT (Rumor Intelligence) which is often not true.  This happens quite frequently when discussing frequent flyer miles as most people can’t believe you would be able to do all that I do for free.  To be fair, there was a time in the 80’s and 90’s that the…

Atten-shun!

Listen up Troops! You are about to receive a series of highly unclassified briefings on frequent flyer miles. Now I know that some of you may have knowledge of this subject and for you there will be advanced training. However, for the majority of you this is something you are dimly aware of, but probably…