Airlines

The price of getting from one country to another can be a big factor on a short vacation. The longer you’re away and the more ground you want to cover, however, the more the price of travel within a country will impact your budget. So the countries with the cheapest domestic flights could cost you …

There are times when going down the travel search rabbit hole can really pay off. Sometimes you have to set aside some time, then think creatively to find the cheapest flights to anywhere.  I’m currently in Mazatlan, Mexico, which I flew to from Queretaro. I don’t live in Queretaro, two hours away in fact. But …

Remember when you used to earn frequent flyer miles by flying halfway around the world or taking lots of segments? If you haven’t flown for a while, you may need to relearn the system. Now they’re called frequent flyer points because miles have nothing to do with them and as you’ve probably guessed, the changes …

The rules are always in flux and the game can change at the margins, but I’ve been earning free airline tickets for more than two decades now. In some ways, it’s even easier now to get free flights than it was when I started.  Around a year ago, before we had vaccines in arms, I …

This has been a crappy year in almost every way, but especially for those who like to leave home frequently. Will it be better next year? How are we going to travel in 2021? In a normal year, I visit a dozen places in multiple countries and rack up a fair number of frequent flyer …