Oh yeah, Mani people, we always thought of them as different 🙂

Will hit low 40’s today. And then back in the 30s for the rest of the week. In other words, we got a heatwave lol.

Road trip huh? Tried to use again miles to send wife to Malaysia and award availability continues to be absolutely horrendous. She gave up, she found herself an economy RT ticket on Turkish Airlines and bought it. It was about $1.2k but then after picking seats went up to almost $1.5k. But she loves the one stop layovers in IST instead of two stops. Best I could get her was one way in economy on the same exact flights with 55k UA miles. Which wanted 250k miles on Biz class one way LOL. Of course that was the lowest, went up to 650k or 800k UA miles, absolutely horrendous. Noticed a YouTuber doing a video saying he is canceling cards and simplifying and at the end, oh I am sponsored by an ED pill company to enhance performance. This will never happen here LOL.

https://www.science.org/content/article/remote-greek-culture-has-been-genetic-island-4500-years

My first trip of the year is planned! Taking the family on a short-ish road trip to Jekyll Island next month. Possibly a night in Beaufort SC as well. I’m hoping the weather cooperates… The snow was fun here but we’re about ready for some warm weather now.

Thanks. No way she would wanna add getting to Toronto segment. We could drive actually so I can drop her off after a day or two in Toronto but not in March with possible snowstorms and still tax season. She is fine flying economy and saving the miles for later. And we are now fine saving them for business class flights and paying for economy. And we have come to terms paying for Business class flights now, almost jumped at yet another business class fare through TK but no way she would layover in IST for 22.5 hours. Will do another award search round today, thanks again.

Check Toronto YYZ to Bangkok BKK on Condor with Alaska. There’s about a half dozen dates available in business for 85K Alaska miles. It won’t get her all the way there but it’ll be close anyway.

The pic may be deceiving, I would not say it is enormous. Large yes. 🙂 Yes, there is progress every day, nice to see it coming together.

Done with burning miles/points on coach these days. As this currency is just not coming around as plentifully as it used to be, so sad. I am not good in burning. I still have some time left before PointsYeah membership runs out and what I get from them is just absolute crap, I mean, almost non-existent. I left an alert for economy and what I am getting is just absolutely trash, 100k United miles on economy and stuff like that. Once in a while I do a tour checking AA, UA, AS and AC and I get nada basically. And yes I don’t go for positioning flights and dates are not that flexible. I still hope something decent will pop in UA Saver awards but waiting for last minute availability to open up everywhere is definitely not as a lock as it used to be as well. Airlines have the upper hand. And now banks. We are nearing the point of “this is not worth it” anymore. Of course you would not see this at all from all the other people “in the game”/business of pumping plastic to gullible readers who fall for “Look at me in my flat bed drinking champagne and eating caviar for free” smh.

Yes, this was the way it was done and it was frustrating and annoying to track it. But I was under the impression that Chase changed that to make it a calendar year basis. And I confirmed it on the Chase site in the Terms and Conditions, which state:

Earn 2 additional qualifying night credits:

Earn Additional World of Hyatt Tier-Qualifying Night Credits Each Calendar Year: You, as the primary cardmember, will earn 2 World of Hyatt Tier-Qualifying Night credits for every $5,000 in Purchases.

I am certain I did not hit $15k this calendar year so I should have earned 4 night credits and not 6.

I bet this is a glitch and of course I am not calling Chase. The thing is…my whole spend tracking now is kind of messed up.

Yeah, kitchen—->short term pain for long term gain. Today is the last bigly cold day, going to warm up all of next week, it’s about time.

I wonder how many more Ponzis are out there, this site just singles out major ones that made the news. Yeah, the softer issues around retirement are much more challenging than the math.

Overall I’m seeing tons less award space in premium cabins but coach generally shows decent availability. Unfortunately, once you’ve grown accustomed to business class on long haul it’s not easy to revert. Have you checked space on EVA or through Europe?

It is annoying to track that, I wish Chase had a counter.