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4 Reasons I’m Excited Alaska Airlines is Joining OneWorld

4 Reasons I’m Excited Alaska Airlines is Joining OneWorld

Travel BlerdFebruary 17, 2020March 9, 2020

Recently there was some big news concerning Alaska Airlines. They not only renewed their partnership with American Airlines but they also decided to join the OneWorld Airline Alliance. Alaska Airlines frequent flyer members will be able to earn and redeem on all American Airlines flight by Spring of 2020 and will be fully joining OneWorld by Summer 2021. American became

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Next Card Up: The Citi Premier

Next Card Up: The Citi Premier

Travel BlerdFebruary 2, 2020February 2, 2020

I’m in the beginning stages of booking my flights for the trip to Europe I’m taking with my parents. I trying to book 3 tickets business class seats on Singapore airlines from JFK to Frankfurt. Depending on the day, I could book tickets at the Saver level for 72000 miles per seat or 85000 miles per seat at the Advantage

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I’m Taking My Parents to Europe

I’m Taking My Parents to Europe

Travel BlerdJanuary 20, 2020January 25, 2020

My Dad is turning 60 this year and I wanted to do something special for him. He served in Germany when he was in the military and he always wanted to go back. There are two places my mom has dreamed of going, one is Paris and the other is Milan. She’ll be going with me to Paris at the

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My 2020 Travel Plans

My 2020 Travel Plans

Travel BlerdJanuary 5, 2020January 29, 2020

For 2020, I plan on traveling a little more than I did in 2019. I started a new job in the middle of the year and that affected how much I could travel in 2019. I intentionally didn’t take any vacation over Christmas in order to have more days in the New Year. So far I have an idea of

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Finally Booked my Hotel for Paris

Finally Booked my Hotel for Paris

Travel BlerdOctober 16, 2019January 29, 2020

Since the end of September I’ve been pretty busy travel wise. I took a work trip to Michigan on Amtrak and I just got back from a trip to Florida for a wedding. In the next month, I’m taking a trip to San Francisco for a conference in November and I’m spending Thanksgiving in Las Vegas. With all this travel

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5 Reasons I Applied for The World of Hyatt Credit Card

5 Reasons I Applied for The World of Hyatt Credit Card

Travel BlerdJuly 31, 2019July 31, 2019

A few of months ago I wrote about the last card that I applied for, the Fidelity Rewards Visa. In that post I talked about why I didn’t apply for the World of Hyatt card at the time. A lot has changed between then and now. Here are the five reason I finally applied for the World of Hyatt Card:

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If You Have An iPhone, You Can Get Up to 33% Cash Back at GrubHub

If You Have An iPhone, You Can Get Up to 33% Cash Back at GrubHub

Travel BlerdJune 28, 2019January 29, 2020

Now through 7/10, if you order with the Grubhub app and use your Apple Cash Balance, you will get $5 cash back on your next 3 orders. The minimum purchase is $15. I just tried this tonight and the money is immediately added to your Apple Cash Balance. This deal is even better if you have the Ebates app. In

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Citi Takes Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Citi Takes Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Travel BlerdJune 25, 2019June 25, 2019

A couple months ago I wrote about how the new World Elite benefits added more value to Citi Prestige. Well today, the other shoe has dropped. Citi has announced a number of big changes in benefits to all their cards including the Citi Prestige. Here are some of the benefits that are going away beginning on September 22: Worldwide Car

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Zanzibar Trip report Part 1: Positioning for my Qatar Airway flight

Zanzibar Trip report Part 1: Positioning for my Qatar Airway flight

Travel BlerdJune 23, 2019June 22, 2019

For my birthday I always plan an international trip. Since I live in Chicago, I usually target somewhere warm. In the past for my birthday, I’ve visited Panama, Costa Rica and Peru. This year I wanted to visit some place exotic and not a usual travel spot for North American tourists. That’s why I chose to go to Zanzibar. For

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Don’t Forget to Activate Your Chase Freedom and Discover Bonus Categories

Don’t Forget to Activate Your Chase Freedom and Discover Bonus Categories

Travel BlerdJune 22, 2019June 22, 2019

The bonus categories for the Chase Freedom and Discover It cards have been announced. The bonus categories for the Chase Freedom are Gas and Streaming services. The set of streaming services includes Netflix, Spotify and Hulu. The Discover categories are Restaurants and PayPal. The categories for both of these card are not very useful for me. All the streaming services

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It’s Not Even September and I Already Booked a Trip for My Birthday

It’s Not Even September and I Already Booked a Trip for My Birthday

Travel BlerdJune 20, 2019June 22, 2019

For my birthday I’ll be taking a trip to France thanks to a great sale on Business class flights from La Compagnie. Flights from Newark to Paris were as low as $1000 round trip. I took the opportunity to book a trip for the end of February/beginning of March to not only celebrate my birthday but also my mother’s birthday

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Did Anyone Else get a Gift Card from AMEX?

Did Anyone Else get a Gift Card from AMEX?

Travel BlerdJune 18, 2019June 22, 2019

Yesterday I got this letter from American Express. AMEX usually sends out a gifts or gift cards to those who hold an American Express Platinum card every 1-2 years. The gift cards are usually for high end or specialty retailers and the amounts range from $100 – $300. 2 years ago AMEX sent me a package of things from Boxed.

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