Understanding Airline Alliances and Partnerships

One of the more confusing concepts that new Travel Hackers face is the concept of the Airline Alliance.  Inevitably, one of the more common...

Potential Game Changer

The Background Veterans of the Travel Hacking scene know that Visa and MasterCard love to upsell customers to their elite cards like the Visa Infinite or...

Breaking News – Qatar Airways in TROUBLE

I didn't see this coming but overnight, the countries of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia made a diplomatic withdraw from Qatar.  The United Arab Emirates...

Aeroplan Give a HUGE FU to Members

** Update as of May 27** It looks like Aeroplan has once again enabled international award searches though I still question the integrity of Aeroplan...