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What to Look For in a 2016 Blog. Must read by Mile Nerd. I am honored to have my blog one of the few recommended! This is why Frugal Travel Guy or the others here will never be recommended #priceless.
Payments Workshop at Doctor of Credit. Yeah, that is the other blog recommended by Mile Nerd. We can’t afford that “Chuck” writer around here unless you abuse my links, thanks 🙂
Another award search tool. In the past year we have seen quite a few entries. Not lame blogger question: Which one is your favorite?
Fidelity switches providers of its 2% cashback card!
Air Berlin offering status matches to US residents. I forgot to post this, my bad.
Great cafes around the world. Another great AFAR guide. I love cafes!
Amazon starts offering loans to customers with pay monthly option. Oh oh, this is not good. If you are thinking about doing this please leave, this hobby is NOT for you! Getting loans to buy stuff from Amazon is like paying 25% interest in credit card balances. If you are still thinking about doing this, you have issues. Go read a Titan blog, they will gladly take advantage of you! I do not want you to use my Amazon link if you plan to do this, PLEASE!
I had never heard of this: “A Boeing 727-223, registered N844AA, was stolen from Quatro de Fevereiro Airport, Luanda, Angola on 25 May 2003“. Wow, vanished!
“What do I want?”. Awesome article, I read this to both my kids. Happiness requires struggle. “What pain do you want to sustain?”. Highly recommended read!
Photos from the Middle East – 2015.
Photographer and filmmaker Arkadiusz Podniesinski visits Fukushima. Fascinating account.
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Regarding TravelCodex’s new tool: I’ve already written up most of a comparison of it to AwardAce, and I hope to add in a comparison of Eric Boromisa’s spreadsheet tool as well. Does anyone know of any other similar tools I should include? To be clear: I’m looking for tools that tell the user how many miles are required to get from point A to point B with each of the major airline loyalty programs.
I think this would be a fantastic blog post!
Here are some I have in my bookmark, so many have appeared lately, some may not fit, just adding here for completeness:
https://www.tripstreak.com/
http://www.flyermiler.com/
http://www.awardace.com/
http://wandr.me/tools/frequent_flier_redemption_options.aspx
That airberlin story was mine originally!
I saw it some time ago and could not remember where, sorry.
Why do you post all 3 blog posts together? Why don’t you space them out throughout the day like them Titans?
You should add FrequentFlier.com & TopMiles.com to your review
Oops I meant Flyermiler.com
Thanks!
don’t you think that the “AFFLUENZA MOM” looks a lot like CARROT TOP the comedian?
snoreding area LOL good to have mile nerd back
That made me chuckle too 🙂
Where does airberlin fly ? ? ? I looked on their website and it looks like everywhere in the world, which is strange to me because I have never heard of them. Just wondering, not really important.
That was a great mention, hit the nail on the head. Trust, interesting, want to read it every day, kudos !
Haven’t looked at the search tool article yet but that vacation destination “tuner” website is pretty slick. It is fun, put it that way, although not necessarily practical, because when you put in that you want it cheap, you will end up in Brasil or Southeast Asia or Africa, ie. someplace far away and expensive to get to !
Thanks Buzz !
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Off the top of my head, JFK and ORD for sure. And one more city in Florida, think it is Miami…or maybe it’s Fort Myers to Dusseldorf. They are all over Europe, surprised you never heard of them. I flew them last summer, it’s a fine airline.
Photos from around the world for people who are afraid of heights:
http://imgur.com/gallery/kPiH0?lr=1451996193
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Retention Offers: Keep this in Mind When Calling Citi
http://www.doctorofcredit.com/keep-this-in-mind-when-calling-citi-for-a-retention-offer/
Hey Buzz, what is your take on this http://freequentflyerbook.com/blog/2016/1/4/how-to-feel-about-the-fidelity-rewards-2-cash-back-visa-signature being the Barclaycard arrival+ killer? I think I read awhile back, that you were an arrival+ fan for ms.
I don’t agree with it. At the same time, I realize we can not generalize too much in this space because we are all different, with different personalities, current situations, goals, spending patterns, etc etc.
I have kept my Arrival card even with the recent loss of some benefits. I don’t mind the reduction from 10% to 5% but the loss of the under $100 redemptions does hurt. But not enough to cancel it. I have so many bill payments coming through it that it becomes a bitch to drop the card. And the points pile up even at much less pace now that I don’t do much MS anymore…After I redeem them for a paid flight or hotel stay I may decide to drop it.
Me and Fidelity never got along, they have banned me from whoring some cash I have around….multiple times 🙂 And I still find the added hassle of dropping the 2% in a Fidelity account as too much hassle. If someone wants the 2% straight cash back they should just go for the Citi Double Cash, no hassles.
I like simplicity more and more as I get older…
Yea, why did Fidelity change the old $100k funding rules? 50k airline points were pretty easy to get. Arrival is a fantastic card to fund C checking accounts with. Just keep increasing that CL every year and the annual fee won’t be hard to swallow.
Why? Maybe because Titans kept writing about it and somebody noticed? 🙂
For folks with modest overseas travel, that FIDO card may be a step up from Barclays A+.
Collapse the new card’s 1% forex fee with A+ $89 annual fee, and you’re ahead until you have $8,900 of forex charges. Plus no categories or redemtions-it’s all automatic.
Viewed another way, you get a straight 2% cash back on all domestic, plus 1% net overseas, with no fees and no hassles. Not bad on my street.
Two caveats: 1. A+ runs like a dream anywhere. No false declines, great customer service, it just glides. US Bank is untested on this by me.
2. Thread on FT (mostly using Sapphire) was building data points that Visa may use forex rates up to .5% higher than MC. I need to see how the lab work is coming along over there.
The point about the A+ never giving card holders any hassles at all as far as questioning/fraud detecting/etc crap is great. I am a data point, never had anything questioned. Two thumbs up! Now…about all the others…cough!
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All Greek to me.
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