AMEX Is Finally Shutting Down Redbird; Apply for Serve and Get $25
Last year, Target stopped allowing REDCard (affectionately known in the miles-and-points community as “Redbird”) to be loaded with a credit card directly at the Target register, cl...
Mastercard Titanium / Black / 24,000 Gold Cards Launch
Another new set of credit cards made with precious-metal materials has arrived. Remember the old Visa Black Card that used to advertise everywhere? From the same issuer, Barclaycar...
Meet Your Minimum Spending Requirement with Money Orders
We’ve just entered 2016, and before everyone had even fully recovered from the holiday season, another major event hit the credit card world. Early in the morning on January 8, man...
"PPS Access" Korean Air Tokyo Narita (NRT) T1 Lounge Review
Tokyo Narita International Airport (NRT) is one of the more common connection points on trans-Pacific routes between China and the U.S. Narita has two international terminals in to...
Visa-Free Destinations for Chinese Passport Holders with a U.S. Visa
Introduction If you have a U.S. visa, expired or not, and you want to travel during your vacation, are you? For Chinese passport holders, visas can be a headache. This article summ...
eBay Gas Gift Cards: 5% Off + 1.25% + 2% Back
eBay gas gift cards are 5% off. Stack a shopping portal and discounted eBay gift cards, and you can still come out ahead even if you resell them....
AA Releases Plenty of Peak Summer Award Space to/from Shanghai — First Come, First Served!
AA miles are a great sweet spot for redeeming business class awards between the U.S. and China: just 55,000 AA miles one way, compared with 70,000/80,000 one way using UA miles or...
Delta SkyMiles Quietly Devalues Awards: One-Way U.S.–China Business Class Now Costs 80,000
If you’re planning to use Delta miles for U.S.–China flights, take note: Delta quietly raised the cost of one-way business class awards on U.S.–China routes departing on or after O...
Airport Lounge Review: Dallas (DFW), Miami (MIA), and San Juan (SJU)
Winter had arrived, and the area where chanye lives was freezing cold. There had originally been no plan to travel, but at LD’s strong urging, chanye booked a 9-day trip just two d...
The Domino Effect of a New Credit Card
Minimum spending requirement = overspending + stress? Sign-up bonus = flashy but impractical, or just an excuse for luxury? Bonus categories / AMEX Offers = changing your spending...
Trip Report: JAL + Cathay x2 + Dragonair Business Class Asia Hopscotch
It’s that time of year again: holiday season, and also the days right before a major AA mileage devaluation. However you look at it, this was a great time to burn some AA miles. I...