The Freddie Awards are back! I was involved with the Frequent Traveler Awards last year, which took over for the Freddie Awards when Randy Petersen decided to retire them after 20 years. This year, the Freddie Awards are back, aiming for over a million…

Back in the early 90s, I was a Mac guy while in high school and college.  I graduated college thinking that Apple products would be everywhere.  At my first job in the workforce, I realized that was not the case.  Nobody was developing business…

I applied for the Citi Executive Card a few months after it came out.  Not all of the benefits applied to me, but there was enough there to warrant me applying.  Shortly thereafter, Citi announced it would no longer be continuing the AA debit…

As reported by 744 on Milepoint, United is doing away with the annual purchase option for Economy Plus seats. 744 is also the author of Lufthansa Flyer, an informative travel blog. I wrote recently how I felt about United’s changes to it’s elite program….

A few years ago, it sure looked like the Yankees farm system was going to cement our starting rotation for the next 8 or 10 years.  We introduced 3 young fireball pitchers, all with a ton of moxie: Ian Kennedy Joba Chamberlain Phil Hughes…

I wouldn’t label myself a full-on airplane geek, but I do love flying.  For me, it’s about ending up in cool places that I couldn’t otherwise afford to go to if it wasn’t for my insane habit of collecting miles and points.  But, airplanes…

One of the other blogs I follow is MommyPoints.  She’s a good friend who writes about miles and points like a lot of others, except she writes about it from the perspective of someone who is the “Mommy” of a middle-class family.  Travel with…

Now that we’re in the home stretch of the new Mileage Plus, I’m curious how this affects people.  For anyone not paying attention, Continental and United are in the process of completing their merger.  Right around the beginning of March, OnePass will cease to…