Free flights

I hate to hear people say “I wish I could travel more.” Most of what you can and can’t do in life is a matter of priorities. If you want to do something badly enough, you’ll find a way to make it a top priority. If you don’t, you’ll find excuses. Besides making travel more …

Earning free flights and complimentary hotel rooms doesn’t require riches or celebrity. The pursuit of this also doesn’t have to be complicated. Here’s my Travel Hacking 101 guide for those who like to travel for free but are afraid they will have to make it an obsessive hobby.  I’m currently traveling around Europe, where I’ve …

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 …

Back in those darkest days of the pandemic, when few people were traveling, hopefully you were banking points for some free flights, free hotel rooms, and free vacations for later. My accounts grew a lot during those times because in those days it was easy to rack up the points without flying or checking in …