With the New Year comes a feeling of new beginnings – a time when we focus anew on health, relationships, wealth, and career. We plow into January with enthusiasm for the ways we’re going to improve our life. But other new beginnings happen also, whether we want them to or not. Airline year-to-date status mileage [...]

Most of us sign up for the award programs for the hotels and airlines that we use the most, but we do not take the time to sign up for a hotel that we think we’re only going to stay in for a few nights or an airline that’s taking us on an international trip [...]

Wondering how your airline and hotel reward programs stack up against the competition? Head on over to Head2Head. Program members provide insights into the features, benefits and downsides of their favorite program. Select any two programs to compare. With Head2Head, you can see how the programs stack up when looked at through the eyes of [...]

Airlines and hotels can delete your frequent flier miles without notice for inactive accounts. Here are ways to keep your accounts active and know your balances: Sign up for services such as AwardWallet.com (free), or MileBlaster.com ($6.99) which notify you when your balance changes and when expiration dates are sneaking up on you. Ensure that [...]

Many of us save our air miles and hotel points for that special international trip or for retirement when we dream of having lots of time (and hopefully money!) to travel. In a perfect world, the day we expire is the day we’re on a trip enjoying the last of our rewards. But chance are, [...]