What’s The Point?
How Loyalty Programs Work
Credit Cards and Credit Scores
Types of Miles & Points
Identifying Your Travel Goals
How Alliances Work
Credit Card Strategy For Beginners
Earning Miles & Points
Hotels Matter Too
What’s Next?
There are some ways in which the quanity and quality of your travelling can be improved once you learn a few techniques. This is quite easily done with some simple strategic planning using hotel points, airline mile and credit rewards.
Let me start by using an example imagine two families are planning on travelling to Hawaii and both are planning to spend about $6000 on the trip. The first family are careful with their spending and find some good deal for the flights and hotel stay in Hawaii the cost of the tickets are $3000. This leaves about $3000 left over to spend on meals and hotel. Ultimately they have a very nice vacation.
The second family which has been using the techniques compiled from this site and therefore have been collecting airline miles and credit card points. They are smart consumers and looking around for tickets that allow them to use the miles they have accumulated. They also use an award booking service which allows them maximize the value of their points), this allows them to redeem their business miles for business class tickets back home there out of pocket expenses come to $500!!!
Yes this is possible. This leaves about $5500 left to spend on their vacation, so they have more options. They might be able to rent a five star hotel right on the beach instead of the other one or rent a speedboat for the entire week on all the money they saved. They also have a great vacation.
But the ultimate result is they have better vacation then the first family because they were able to save money on the airline tickets which is ultimately leveraging their airline miles.
It all depends on what you want. Some families want to make more trips per year, some want to upgrade to business class, and some families want to spend less on travel. It all depends on their choices but anything is possible if you use the techniques presented here correctly.
This is even possible if you don’t have a job that requires you to stay many nights a year in hotels or travel thousands of miles.
The truth is that the airline industries frequent flyer programs at present are very profitable and they have created lucrative partnerships with the banks and credit cards.
So you can truly earn more miles and points from your everyday spending than you can from flying. This not always the case, but it makes sense to get the maximum number of awards you can achieve in the time being.
This website will teach you how to earn points and miles, and give you the information you need to get an increase in the quality of your travel and fly in international premium cabins for substantially cheaper prices.