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Finding flights across the Pacific can be hard, especially direct to Australia/New Zealand or to Polynesian Islands.
This turned into an extensive series on finding award flights to the South Pacific, best prices, lesser known partners, stopovers, and a few pricing oddities.
This post and series will go mileage by mileage program, showing a map of routes for each airline partner. At a glance it should help give routing ideas, but I'll also break down best options for each program.
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This is a packed post for all the info you need on getting free/cheap flights, free/cheap hotels, and figuring out where to go in Eastern Europe.
In this post I'll go over the miles and discount airline options, the points hotel and consistent hotel deals, and my favorite places to go. But then I'll go over 6 route ideas, detailing where to go, where to stay, and how to get around... basically planning a trip for you.
Although, you can use some of what you'll learn about finding cheap flights to combine different regions.
Read moreNearly every popular article on how to find cheap flights ends up being stupid, common sense, and/or contains untrue details.
When non-points collectors have asked me how to find cheap flights for their upcoming trip, I'll often just point to a flight aggregator like Kayak or Hipmunk.
However, it seems that I'm able to find incredible flight deals more often than ever. Some are mistake fares, often they are not. But I want to talk about how I find amazingly cheap flights.
(Will be similar to the post on 6 Ways To Get "Amazing" Hotels.
But let me quickly say...
Read moreFirst, FlyingBlue is a transfer partner of Citi ThankYou, Amex, and Chase. Second, every month FlyingBlue puts out a list of discount tickets to/from Europe (or within Europe). Right now I could book a ticket for two months out, for only 18,750 miles.
Heck, I've seen tickets to Europe as low as 12,500 miles, or 31,250 miles in business!
This may be the single best use of Citi ThankYou points, and obviously a great use of Amex MR or Chase points... which is a lot of options for earning points via credit cards.
I want to explain what Promo Awards are, how to book...
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