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Putting Malta on your Bucket List – 7 Reasons
I recently completed a 5 night, 6 day trip to Malta 
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AMEX Platinum Annual Fee Change and More – On MilesFlying Podcast
Take a listen to the podcast below from my friend Yehud
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Welcome, Million Mile Secrets Readers!
Welcome! Thanks for visiting my page. I hope you enjoye
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Back to Basics: How To Transfer American Express Membership Rewards Points
See my Back to Basics: How To Transfer Chase Ultimate R
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Starwood Cards Back Up to 35,000 Bonus Miles
The Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) credit cards from Am
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Hawaiian Airlines Pulls a Delta Skymiles: Over 550 Flights, One Saver Business Class Seat
For the New Year, my wife and I were supposed to be in
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Every (Other) Co-Branded Airline Credit Card
After the launch of the Cathay Pacific credit card fro
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New Cathay Pacific Card: No Thanks!
Yesterday Synchrony (who?) released their much anticipa
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STOP! Rebates Ahead! Credit Cards That Offer Point Rebates
You know what the best thing about opening up a new cre
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Your Guide to Flying Between the Hawaiian Islands
When flying to Hawaii from the East Coast (or anywhere
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Credit Card Application Failures & Lessons Learned
My last round of applications (colloquially known as an
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Guide to Using Merrill Lynch Points
Intro How to Redeem Your Points How Redeeming Points Ac
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PSA: Where to Find The Best Flight Deals – Without Points
Sometimes it’s not always worth using points R
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Credit Card Strategies in a 5/24 World
With Chase decreasing the sign-up bonus on the Chase Sa
Read MoreChase Sapphire Reserve – Bonus Changes January 12th
Per The Points Guy, Chase has informed its affiliates t
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A Year in Review – 2 Million Miles Earned
Earlier this week I shared with you an updated fourth
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Virgin America & Alaska Airlines Merging Loyalty Programs – The Right Way
A few days ago Virgin America and Alaska Airlines compl
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Quick Hit: New Barclays Credit Card Is Here!
Several months ago I reported that Barclays would once
Read MoreA Points Promotion Worth Your Time – JetBlue & Amazon
In 2015, the Huffington Post reported that Amazon Prime
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Comparing Credit Card Travel Credits
With the end of the year coming up, now is the perfect
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(My) Eight Truths About Points, Miles & Credit Cards
On Award Travel Travel is not free. Contrary to what
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An Obscure Credit Card From A Familiar Bank – Worth $500 – $1,000
A few weeks ago Doctor of Credit posted about a increas
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Clever Marketing from Discover – I Actually Opened the Offer
As someone who holds a lot of credit cards, I rarely am
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Cathay Pacific Will Fly to Tel Aviv in 2017
While it’s been rumored for a while now (amongst
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Delta SkyMiles Credit Cards – 4 Increased Offers
American Express usually increases their Delta co-brand
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Earning, Churning & Burning: Quarter 3 Update
As the third quarter of 2016 comes to a close, I wante
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The Difference Between Saver and Standard Awards
Airlines release award seats at different levels, some
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Back to Basics: How to Transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards Points
[Disclosure: I may earn points referral bonuses for car
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Marriott and Starwood Merger Complete – Begin Transferring Points
[Disclosure: I may earn points referral bonuses for car
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AMEX Changes SPG Sign-Up – For the Worse!
Sometime last night American Express changed the prett
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Why I’m Closing All My Citi American Airlines Credit Cards
At the end of August, Citi instituted a new rule to cla
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NO LONGER AVAILABLE: Amazing Hotel Offer – Hilton 2nd Night Free Offer
UPDATE: This offer is no longer available as of Friday,
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Earning the Sign-Up on Chase Cards Again
When Chase added their new rules restricting customers
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PSA: Booking Delta SkyMiles Partner Awards
While Delta SkyMiles continue to devalue, there are sti
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In This Game, There’s No Time Like the Present
In an ever changing game of devaluations and restrictiv
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It’s a Bird… It’s a plane… No, wait! It’s a Delta Devaluation!
Here we go again. Yesterday, Lucky from One Mile at a T
Read MoreACT FAST: Citi Credit Card Product Changes Tomorrow
On Sunday Citi’s new credit card rules went into
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Stretching Your Points for a Rainy Day
With constant devaluations and tightening of rules by b
Read MoreLast Days to Get Citi Products Under Old Rules
[Disclosure: I do not earn any compensation from the li
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The Chase Sapphire Reserve Is Finally Here – And I’m Late!
On Monday, the day we’ve all been waiting for wit
Read MoreLack of American Airlines Award Space – Europe 2017
I like to plan early. I mean really early. Like 11 mont
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AMEX Membership Rewards to Avios – 50% Bonus!
Last October, American Express decreased the Membership
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Citi Prestige – New Sign-up and Benefits Revealed
Last week I discussed that the Citi Prestige would be c
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New Credit Cards Coming from American and Avianca – SIGN ME UP
Some exciting credit card news surfaced last week that
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Citi Prestige Sign-Up Bonus Changing on Tuesday?
Rumor in the blogosphere it that the Citi Prestige sig
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Credit Card Churning, Earning & Burning – Quarter 2 Update
As the second quarter of 2016 comes to a close, I wante
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jetBlue Will Match Your Points – Worth it?
On the heels of their easy and amazing Mosaic Status Ma
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Costco Now Takes Visa – And a New Costco Card from Citi
The big news this week is that Costco began its switcho
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Celebrating [Fifth] Freedoms to the Caribbean
“Why am I flying Air New Zealand between Los Ange
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Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem – Redeeming Hilton Points
I recently completed a long, three day holiday weekend
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Flight Cancellation Compensation – My Experience
Those who follow me on Instagram (@miningformiles) know
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Chase, So You Can’t: Update on 5/24 – The Other Shoe Drops
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Best & Worst Award Cancellation Fees
Fees are never good, but sometimes you have no choice b
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[News] What You May Have Missed – May 15 – May 22
Points Use your points this summer to get some last min
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#IHateTheWait – Let’s Talk About the TSA
Ah, the TSA. An important and vital role, but often cri
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Let’s Go to Europe This Summer – Greece (and its islands)
This is Part III in a series. See Part I: Let’s G
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Product Changing with Bank of America
Historically, Bank of America has been the most churner
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Let’s go to Europe this Summer – Dublin
This is Part I in a series. All screenshots showing awa
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Easy Status Match to jetBlue Mosaic Status
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May the 4th Be With You: Fly the Star Wars Jet on Miles!
May the 4th be with you. Today is special day for Sta
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Get 1 Week or 1 Month of Free Hotel Nights With These Limited Time Credit Card Offers
There are currently four Hilton HHonors cards in circul
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Mobile Award Booking? There are apps for that!
With everything we do going increasingly mobile, I find
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Zika-Free Beach Destinations on Points & Miles
[DISCLAIMER: I am not a doctor or medically trained pro
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Kosher While Traveling: Beijing & Tokyo
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[News] What you may have missed over the past few weeks…
I intend for this post to be weekly, but as we were awa
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Credit Card Churning – Quarter 1 Update
Quarter 1 of 2016 will be coming to a close and I wante
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When Should You Start Earning Miles for a Trip?
Trip planning can be strenuous, even when going for (ne
Read MoreLimited Time Credit Card Offers – Sign Up Now!
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Read MoreHow We’re Getting to Asia Using American Airlines Miles – A $22,800 value!!
A few weeks ago I posted about our 9 nights in hotels o
Read MoreWhy You Should Get the Chase Sapphire Preferred and Some Awesome Uses
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Read MoreActivate Chase Freedom Q2 Today – Grocery Stores & More!
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Getting Creative: Mininmum Spend Requirements
On Friday I wrote about what I don’t post about,
Read More[NEWS] The Week That Was – 3.5.16 – 3.12.16
Miles United miles expiring? Earn 1000 free United mile
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[NEWS] The Week That Was 2.28 – 3.4
This weekly post will go live every Friday, highlightin
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[NEWS] Starwood Credit Cards Upped to 35,000
Coming off the heels of the news of the new Amex churni
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Chase Freedom Unlimited – Details Revealed
Yesterday, Chase revealed its new product to The Points
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Churning Update: AMEX Pins the Nail on the Coffin
The Golden Age of Churning has ended. Earlier this mont
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Devaluation ALERT: American Airlines – Lock In Award Pricing NOW
On March 22 one of the most lucrative award charts will
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Strategies Before Chase Drops the Axe
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Last Minute Hotel Deals–Hotel Tonight to the Rescue
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Quick Tip! Taking advantage of Winter Weather Waivers!
This weekend, the wife and I popped on down to Miami fo
Read MoreUsing Your Miles to Get to Israel: Part I
Israel is an incredibly popular destination for award t
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The Holy Grail of Award Travel: Southwest Companion Pass
[Disclosure: I may earn compensation from some of these
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January 2016: 220,000 Points, 4 Cards
2015 Ended strong, with over a million miles and points
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In-Depth Credit Card Review: Chase Sapphire Preferred
A Chase Sapphire Preferred review. Again. The only diff
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Chase Sapphire vs. Citi Premier vs. AMEX Gold Card
In a battle to the death… YOU DECIDE Sapphire Pre
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The Best Miles (and Cards You Need) for Domestic Award Travel
We’re always looking where we can go next that includ
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Beginner’s Guide Part 1: Getting Started and Choosing the Right Credit Card
I got involved in collecting credit card miles/points w
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2015: A Year In Review, Earning and Burning Over 1 Million Miles
was a tremendous year for loyalty program and credit ca
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Booking Last Minute Awards: How I Went to Paris With One Day’s Notice
Paris was awesome. It’s a beautiful city and our firs
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