Get award booking help and personalized travel assistance for as little as $1 a month! Evolve Money is sending out emails this week with a latest change to their bill paying service. In short the new change will limit the ability to pay a vendor from four times a month to now one time a … [Continue reading]
Are your frequent flyer miles taxable? Yes.
Get award booking help and personalized travel assistance for as little as $1 a month! In the interest of not providing incorrect tax-advice, I’m providing links to major research about taxing frequent flyer miles in the interest of yesterday’s decision in Shankar v. Commissioner in regards to Citi Thank You Points that you can interpret and … [Continue reading]
Reader Meet Up This Saturday in Washington DC!
Get award booking help and personalized travel assistance for as little as $1 a month! Hi readers! I’ll be attending this Saturday’s Family Travel for Real Life just outside of Dulles Airport this weekend in DC. For Saturday evening, I’d love to get together a group of readers for dinner to discuss award travel, points earning, … [Continue reading]
Frequent Flyer, the movie. Have you seen it?
Get award booking help and personalized travel assistance for as little as $1 a month! Produced by Gabriel Leigh in 2010, “Frequent Flyer” is a 20-minute documentary about frequent flyer miles, the people who collect them, and the world of airports and airplanes that they inhabit. The short film shows over 35,000 miles of travel in … [Continue reading]
Huge gift card scam EVERYONE needs to be aware of!
Get award booking help and personalized travel assistance for as little as $1 a month! Many of us in the “miles and points” community buy Visa, Mastercard, American Express, or merchant-branded gift cards. However, there’s a scam that’s hitting retail stores nationwide, and everyone who buys gift cards in a retail location could be affected. … [Continue reading]
Jamie Larounis is an avid traveler, blogger and miles/points educator. Traveling well over 100,000 miles a year and staying in hotels for over 100 nights, he leverages miles, points and other deals to fly in first class cabins, and stay in 5-star hotels. The Forward Cabin shares his experiences, musings, reviews, tips, tricks, resources and industry news with you, the fellow traveler.