How to Optimize Your Frequent-Flier Miles | The Middle Seat | WSJ

How do you use your loyalty miles and points? Do you save them for business class tickets, use them for upgrades, burn through them for economy tickets or something else entirely?
-Scott McCartney, WSJ

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This was actually an extremely useful video WSJ! Thanks for tips, also anyone who doesn’t know this you can hookup your Delta account to your LYFT account and everytime you take a Lyft you get Delta skymiles. Delta also does dining and shopping, so when you dine in a restaurant or shop online at certain places you get skymiles for that

I only redeem point for long haul business class (Canada to Australia).

I travel all the time for work, so the last thing I need is another plane ticket. I rather trade SWA points for gift cards. Tax free bonus...

Business class tickets are annoying to get so I've been transferring miles to hotels

Alaska airlines makes this super easy! If you live in the pacific northwest it should be a staple credit card.

Shouldn't a mile get you a mile? Call it something else otherwise

Airlines: Do business with us now and we'll provide outsize value later
Consumer: How much for a business class saver award?
Airline: We don't publish award charts. The price you see is the price you pay.


This is why I moved to Alaska Airlines. Correlating the cash price to the award has made popular loyalty programs into rebate programs. I rather take my rebates in cash back rather than proprietary miles.

! I like your video editing

but the thing is, southwest doesn’t require you to sit at a certain seat

You recommend 1.5¢ per point, how can you make such a statement? Every reward program is different, and I mean drastically different.

👍 Always great stuff, Scott! Thanks! 😎

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