Point.me built its reputation as an award-search engine that goes further than airline websites: instead of only searching one loyalty program at a time, it searches across dozens of frequent…
Award flight search used to mean manually checking a dozen airline websites one program at a time. AwardLogic and Point.me both exist to collapse that into a single search box…
The Myth of the Universal Status Match Button Search "status match" and you'll find pages promising to get you top-tier hotel and airline status everywhere with one form. That's not…
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"Mileage run" used to mean something specific: buy a cheap, often nonsensical routing purely to rack up qualifying miles before a status deadline. That trick is mostly dead on the…
Airlines and hotel chains constantly run promotions offering to sell you loyalty points directly, often at a 20-40% bonus over the standard purchase price. It's tempting to dismiss these offers…
Credit card issuers and airline loyalty programs both run fraud and abuse detection that can end with an account closed outright — cards shut down and points forfeited, or a…
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Bad credit doesn't have to mean no travel rewards — it means starting from a secured card instead of a rewards card, and being deliberate about the 6-to-18-month runway before…