If you are familiar with the complex world of credit cards you may be familiar with the term sock-drawering. Sock drawering is the practice of storing certain credit cards that you don’t use all that often (ever), but want to keep open. We keep the cards open because of a certain benefit the card offers…
For those who don’t live in the New York City area, you might not be too familiar with Blade. Essentially, Blade is like Uber, but instead of requesting a cloth lined Toyota Camry with “Black Ice,” you request a helicopter. Blade offers helicopters from New York City to the various airports, the Hamptons, or other…
In a recent post about Electric Vehicle Charging at Hotels I mentioned that earlier this year I bought a Tesla Model 3. So far ownership has been perfect. I’ve put just over 6,000 miles on the car and haven’t had any issues with the car. What’s also incredible is that the car is quite different…
I’ve written about the Chase Freedom card several times over the past few years. It’s a card that I’ve carried for just over two years now, but don’t actually use all that often. Because I rarely use the card, I don’t actually get much value from it annually. However, I’ll most likely never close the…
By now it should come as no surprise that I’m a bit of an American Airlines fanboy. I’m honestly not sure why either. I’ve been a fan of American for as long as I remember. My only guess is that being from St. Louis, I was a huge fan of TWA growing up. After American…
I haven’t written about this yet, but a few months ago I decided to buy a new car. When moving to New York from Chicago the last thing I ever expected to do was to buy a car. After all, I didn’t have a car in Chicago so why would I need one in New…
On my way to Hanoi for a day I ended up in Tokyo’s Narita airport after a fantastic Japan Airlines First Class Flight. When I arrived in Narita I had 4 hour layover until my JAL Business Class flight to Hanoi. As I was trying to quickly adjust to the local time zones, I wanted…
I hate to admit it, but over the past year I’ve only spend a few nights in hotels. In fact, I bet all together, I can count one hand how many of those nights were with Marriott hotels. See, the issue is that my travel habits have changes substantially since I first started blogging. Back…
By now, almost everyone knows airlines, hotels, rental car companies, and even fast food chains have loyalty programs. Airlines, in particular, design those loyalty programs to reward frequent flyers through award miles, upgrades, waived fees, and lounge access. United has the MileagePlus program, Delta has the SkyMiles program, and American Airlines has the AAdvantage program.…
Congratulations! You’ve made it! After spending countless hours on airplanes flying all over the world you’ve finally reached top-tier elite status with American Airlines. It’s no easy feat. To do so, you have to earn at least $15,000 Elite Qualifying Dollars and either 100,000 Elite Qualifying Miles or 120 Elite Qualifying Segments. To the layman, you basically…
