My latest for One Mile at a Time

• Just Two Weeks Left Until The Chicago Seminars!
  One of the longest standing annual miles & points “events” is the Chicago Seminars, which has been held at the Holiday Inn in Elk Grove, Illinois (near Chicago O’Hare Airport) for the past eight years. Eight years. I'm getting old.  The Chicago Seminars will be returning for a ninth year, and will be held October 19-21, 2018. […]
• Virgin Atlantic To Partner With Aviation Gin
  While we often see a bit of an arms race in terms of airline champagne offerings, those who enjoy other spirits are often left out. I'm always a bit surprised at the lack of thought and selection for spirits in premium cabins. It's odd to me that you'd stock $200 bottles of Champagne, and then […]
• Don’t Forget: Last Day For 5x Chase Freedom Points At Gas Stations, Lyft, And Walgreens
  The Chase Freedom is one of my favorite no annual fee credit cards, as it offers 5x points in rotating quarterly categories, for up to $1,500 of spend per quarter. Most people use this as a cashback card, meaning the 5x points really translates into 5% cashback in these categories. The best part is that in […]
• Happy 50th Birthday To The Queen Of The Skies!
  Today marks 50 years from when the first 747 aircraft rolled off the line at the Boeing factory in Everett. That first aircraft is now an exhibit at the Museum of Flight, and Boeing spent a few minutes talking about the plane and its history earlier this weekend, which is sorta fun. While the airframe was […]
• Weekly Review: September 29, 2018
  Whew this has been an exciting week! Ben is off getting hitched this weekend, and has been making an admirable effort to not work. While challenging, it's actually been extremely enjoyable for me to set aside the bulk of my usual responsibilities to focus on blogging every day (and I'm grateful to have Spencer, James, and […]
• What You Need To Know About Long Selling Award Tickets
  Okay, maybe "need" is a strong word, because roughly 99% of the time you're not going to need to know this information in order to book award tickets. But there were a lot of questions earlier in the week about how I was able to get a Kenya Airways award issued that Ben (and multiple agents) […]