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InsideFlyer February 2009 |
Advantage Goes to AAdvantage The American AAdvantage program grew by almost three million members in 2008. |
InsideFlyer June 2009 |
AAdvantage Flex American AAdvantage has announced new options when redeeming miles for flight awards. |
InsideFlyer April 2009 |
Award Patrol 2009 Is the perception that it's constantly getting more difficult to claim an award flight true? |
InsideFlyer May 2010 |
Award Choices 2010 We take a look at some of the ways to spend your miles after you've flown the miles. |
InsideFlyer February 2006 |
Winning The Battle - Award Redemption in 2006 With most airline flights full of paying passengers, it might come as a surprise that there's hope that you, too, can really get the award you want. But it's not always an easy fight. |
InsideFlyer April 2007 |
How Best to Redeem Your Awards The current buzz word for award redemption is calendaring. |
InsideFlyer August 2004 |
Perception/Reality People complain about the difficulty of redeeming frequent flier awards. We decided to put the perception to a test by actually calling the airlines and trying to book awards. |
InsideFlyer April 2013 |
Cover Story US Airways and American Airlines announced their upcoming consolidation with the combined airline being called American Airlines. Members of American AAdvantage and US Airways Dividend Miles have already started getting some details about what to expect from the new AAdvantage program. |
InsideFlyer September 2012 |
Never Say Never Last month, American AAdvantage announced that miles earned prior to July 1, 1989, known as "Miles with No Expiration" will automatically be converted on Nov. 1 to "Miles Subject to Expiration" and will indeed expire if you don't earn or redeem miles at least once every 18 months. |
InsideFlyer April 2012 |
10-K Award Statistics We compiled this information from the SEC's EDGAR database for 2011 to give you an idea of how many award flights were booked last year. |
InsideFlyer May 2013 |
Awards by the Numbers We looked at the airlines annual 10-K reports to see how many awards were redeemed by frequent flyer members and which airlines have higher percentages of flyers on award tickets. |
InsideFlyer March 2006 |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Frequent Flyers Whether you're a million-miler or a new mileage consumer, practicing these habits will help you survive and thrive in today's world of miles and points. |
InsideFlyer April 2010 |
Flight Awards in 2009 The airlines have filed their 10-K reports for 2009 and overall, they report that fewer flight awards were redeemed by members in 2009 than in 2008. |
InsideFlyer April 2011 |
United's New Award Rules United Mileage Plus recently changed some policies around award booking and updated the website to allow members to choose the award type, class of service and payment method. |
InsideFlyer October 2014 |
Ethics of a Mile Do you own your frequent flyer miles, or does the airline own the miles in your account? If you earn the miles, do you have the right to dispose of them as you see fit? |
InsideFlyer October 2007 |
The (Unlawful) Sale of Awards Thousands, if not millions, of frequent flyers have wondered, "Why can't I do with my frequent flyer miles as I wish? They are my miles, after all." And on several occasions they have found themselves making their case in court. |
InsideFlyer October 2005 |
Broken Promises How to cope when your frequent flyer program changes the rules. |
InsideFlyer May 2011 |
JAL and AA AL Mileage Bank has changed some of its policies on earning and redeeming miles with airline partner American Airlines. |
InsideFlyer September 2011 |
More Mileage Plus Changes In addition to a new credit card, other upcoming changes have been announced for the new combined Mileage Plus and OnePass frequent flyer program. |
InsideFlyer December 2007 |
Continental Shift Continental Airlines announces changes to its OnePass frequent flyer program. |
InsideFlyer October 2005 |
Consumer Reports Validates Award Availability A recent issue of Consumer Reports reports that, after some 300 telephone calls to various frequent flyer programs, nearly 93 percent of the time they were able to secure an award. |
InsideFlyer April 2012 |
High Flyer or Big Spender We look at the differences between FFPs that reward flyers for the miles they fly or the amount they spend. |
InsideFlyer September 2008 |
Alaska Alters Alaska Airlines has announced changes to the Mileage Plan program effective Nov. 1, 2008. |
InsideFlyer October 2005 |
Delta to Merge "Grandfathered" Miles with Newer Ones Delta Air Lines is telling longtime customers that its oldest frequent flyer program is going away next year, but its points will still be usable. Member reaction has been mixed. |
InsideFlyer October 2012 |
Delta Award Changes Delta broke one of the cardinal sins of the frequent flyer world when it published a new award chart on Sept. 1, 2012 without notifying members. |
InsideFlyer December 2009 |
US Airways' GoAwards US Airways is introducing sweeping changes to its award structure, starting Jan. 6, 2010. |
InsideFlyer January 2010 Gary Leff |
Randy Petersen's Opening Remarks A frequent flyer shares his mileage redemption wish list for 2010. |
InsideFlyer January 2008 |
Theory of Evolution When Darwin posed that complex creatures evolve from more simplistic ancestors, little did he know that he was also forecasting the evolution of frequent flyer programs. |
InsideFlyer October 2009 |
Cash and Miles/Points We take a close look at the cash plus miles or points options for award redemption. |
InsideFlyer December 2008 |
Naughty or Nice? Here's a look back at 2008. What happened, how frequent flyers reacted and what, if anything, you can do about it. |
InsideFlyer February 2009 |
AAdvantage Vacations AAvacations.com now has a feature that shows the price of your vacation in AAdvantage miles and dollars while you search the site so that you can pay online with miles and a credit card. |
InsideFlyer November 2007 |
To Hoard or Not to Hoard Is hoarding miles and points as popular as it used to be? Or has the horde of hoarders disappeared? |
InsideFlyer December 2009 |
Randy Petersen's Opening Remarks There are some things, some bad, some strange and some that just don't add up, about upcoming changes to US Airways' award chart. |
InsideFlyer March 2009 |
Flying Blue Changes In a move that sets the program apart from others, Flying Blue members who are not elite members cannot redeem their miles for a first class seat regardless of how many miles they have in their account. |
InsideFlyer December 2010 |
AA.com Car and Hotel Awards American AAdvantage members can now redeem miles or a combination of miles and cash for car and hotel awards. |
InsideFlyer September 2014 |
InsideEdition International As of Oct. 15, 2014, Lifemiles is changing the mileage redemption for Avianca and Star Alliance member airlines. |
InsideFlyer March 2007 |
Expiration Policies A summary of the expiration policies from the most popular frequent flyer programs. |
InsideFlyer March 2004 |
Best Value: The Top 10 Awards of All Time A look back through the years, and through the charts, in search of the awards that rank as the all-time best of the best. |
InsideFlyer January 2015 |
Delta SkyMiles Eliminates Stopovers Delta recently announced as part of the new SkyMiles program, stopovers are no longer allowed on award travel booked on or after Jan. 1, 2015 |
InsideFlyer July 2004 |
The Interview Issue Interviewing the industry about frequent flyer programs: Air Canada Aeroplan... Northwest's WorldPerks... Iberia Plus... United's Mileage Plus... Zevez... etc. |
InsideFlyer April 2008 |
Merger Madness Merger buzz stirs concern for frequent flyer programs. |
InsideFlyer March 2009 |
10 New FFP Commandments There's bold new thinking behind the best ways to get the most out of your frequent flyer miles these days. |
InsideFlyer February 2009 |
Randy Petersen's Opening Remarks A look at the future of award redemptions, plus a cautionary tale. |
InsideFlyer October 2004 |
Riding Out the Storm Several strategies that will help you protect your frequent flyer miles against bankruptcies, buyouts and blowhards. |
InsideFlyer March 2014 |
Delta: The Industry's Canary in a Coal Mine It's been three years since rumors first began leaking out of Atlanta that Delta was considering modifying their popular SkyMiles frequent flyer program from a "mileage-based" program to a "revenue-based" program. |
InsideFlyer September 2006 |
A Peek into Award Redemption Is award availability is getting better or worse? We re-traveled the same sampling of routes travelled two years ago to find out. |
InsideFlyer June 2010 |
Value of a Mile We look at the different ways frequent flyers assign value to miles to help you decide when to spend miles or cash. |
InsideFlyer June 2006 |
AAdvantage Trivia Interesting facts about American Airlines' awards program. |
InsideFlyer May 2006 |
The Big 2-5 -- Celebrating 25 Years of Frequent Flyer Programs Frequent flyer programs have come a long way and carved their own niche these past two and a half decades. |
InsideFlyer December 2013 |
Randy Petersen's Opening Remarks By and large, I have no strong feelings about United's recent changes. Do I declare it's a major devaluation? Not really, it just means it will likely be more difficult for me to get those awards based on the number of miles I am willing to fork over for a redemption. |