What airlines can you fly with American Express Points What I love about American Express are the number of airlines they offer for transferring rewards points. Most start off at 1,000 rewards points and not all airlines have the same exchange rates. You can transfer 1,000 AMEX points to Delta and receive 1,000 SkyMiles. During promotional times, you can also ... Read More »
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Feed SubscriptionHow Many American Express Points Do You Need For A Delta Ticket?
Here are two questions that go hand-in-hand. How many American Express points are needed for a Delta ticket? One of the reasons why I absolutely love the American Express rewards program is the fact that you can use your points to buy airline tickets or you can wait and transfer those points to specific airlines for miles. The reason why ... Read More »
How To Buy Airline Tickets With American Express Points
How can you buy airline tickets with American Express points? Just like most credit card rewards programs, your points can be used to buy airline tickets. Just think of your rewards points as a form of cash. Usually the value of rewards points when redeeming airline tickets comes out to about 1 cent apiece, not very great huh? One of ... Read More »
Two 1st Class Tickets, 6 Night Hotel Stay, 6 Day Car Rental For $316
Thanks to American Express Membership Rewards, Delta SkyMiles and the Chase Sapphire Preferred card, my wife and I just got back from a week stay in Seattle, Washington. Our flight was free at 45,000 Delta Skymiles for each First Class ticket, our hotel was almost free by using 65,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points and our car rental was only $221 ... Read More »
Earn Free Rewards Points Just By Shopping Online
Shopping online? Do it through the American Express Member Rewards portal and start earning free rewards points! I really don’t get why people buy directly from a retailer when they could earn points just by clicking through a rewards portal like the AMEX portal. American Express has hundreds of opportunities to earn bonus points just by clicking through their offers. ... Read More »
Today I Diversify My Miles Portfolio And Add US Airways
Today I decided to diversify my points and miles portfolio and added about 140k miles to my US Airways account. I first talked about taking advantage of the 50% transfer bonus with US Airways the other day and today I finally took the leap. Some may say it was a dumb move, but honestly I looked at every single scenario ... Read More »
Are Credit Card Companies Lowering Their Reward Bonuses?
It seems like there has been a lot of speculation on what credit card offers will be available in the coming months. As soon as a credit card company lowers their bonus, red flags instantly go up. Just this week Chase lowered their bonus on their Sapphire card from 50,000 down to 40,000 bonus points, that’s if you apply for ... Read More »
British Airways Offers 50% Bonus Transfer From American Express Rewards
British Airways is currently offering a 50% transfer bonus, by moving your American Express rewards points to your British Airways account. This is a great bonus and makes for really cheap travel! Why I Won’t Be Transferring Points To British Airways If you have seen my current American Express Membership Rewards account, you will see that I have 541,000 rewards ... Read More »
American Express Rights A Wrong – Gives Me 86k Rewards Points
This is why I love American Express.. their customer service is unmatched! I wrote yesterday about how American Express Almost Lost Me 105,000 Free Rewards Points and today got my answer. I felt like I lost a years worth of rewards points all because of some miscommunication when I called to verify that I had received the card. The representative ... Read More »
Not All Rewards Points Are Created Equal
I thought I would talk about basic points that you earn from different credit cards. Not all points or rewards will give you the best value, but with a little research and knowledge you can take the points you have and make them go further, you can leverage what you have to make 50% more by using a simple technique. ... Read More »