2,000 free Lufthansa miles for kids under 18. 50% bonus buying Frontier miles. $20 instead of $10 for new members from Uber. Once you sign up and download the app, try adding coupon codes OCHOLIDAY, KALEB, and BOS744186. Fyi, my last Uber ride to LAX was $70 and my last UberX ride there $36. One good thing from Hyatt today. It’s the first …
Getting The Week Started
Some Seattle readers are getting a 100,000 mile Delta card offer here. Check it out and see if it works for you. Small Business Saturday is back this Saturday. Register all your American Express cards for a free 10 bucks on each. The American Airlines shopping mall continues their hot streak. Get 60 miles per dollar spent at Magazines.com. Spend …
Midweek Stuff
The Hotels.com mystery coupon on Facebook is back. Feeling generous? Donate $25 to St. Jude and get 20% off an Expedia hotel stay (which could easily be worth a lot more than $25). Also get up to 5,000 Delta miles for donating to the United Way. In the latest “I was wrong” chronicles, let’s go back to a couple weeks ago. …
What’s Better Than Miles? Money!
Even though I have my personal (and probably irrational) problem with BankDirect, it’s still the best mileage checking account if you have big sums of cash. Definitely the easiest, most passive way to earn miles every month. Also, if you do have those big sums, let’s be friends. Trade stocks? Get 2,000 United miles for one trade with Sharebuilder. Those with …
Experiences
Merchandise awards are usually a disastrous use of your miles. Why use 100,000 miles to book a flight worth thousands when you can spend it on a $400 iPad. Ugh. Seeing people use their miles in this way can literally make me feel sick. Miles/points should be used for flights and hotel stays. This is almost always a given. “Almost …