Category: <span>Miles and Points</span>

United has NONSTOP One-way flights from Houston (IAH) to Tokyo (NRT), for 45k points in Economy or 65k points in Premium Plus. Both have +$6 in taxes and fees.

Of these two, 65k for Premium Plus is the better deal in my opinion. You get the larger seat in a 2-3-2 cabin, similar to a domestic first class seat (not lie-flat) and better cabin service.

United may, at any time and without notice, change, stop or end this offer.

I’m focusing on NONSTOP routes only. I know you can often find similar redemption values for routes with a connection.

Click for more details and booking links United miles redemption: Nonstop Flights: Houston to Tokyo (45k economy) or (65k Premium Plus) miles one-way +$6 tax/fees round-trip [Feb / April] – United

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United has round-trip flights from Houston (IAH) to Sydney, Australia (SYD), for 90k points (45k points each-way) and $37-$98 in taxes and fees. This is about 10,000 fewer miles than their most recent low.

United may, at any time and without notice, change, stop or end this offer.

To pull up the deal, go to the United’s booking page and start plugging in dates within the Feb 10 – Mar 28 window. You’ll want to avoid dates don’t have NONSTOP routes, to find those, you’ll need to search through the date range on your own. I’ve linked to a few dates that worked in the example dates section below.

Click for more details and booking links United miles redemption: Nonstop Flights: Houston to Sydney, Australia 45k points each-way (90k points +$37-$98 tax/fees round-trip) [February-March] – United

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There is a new offer for the Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card and it’s the similar to the offer from last year. Now earn 75,000 Miles and a one-time $250 Capital One Travel credit to use in your first cardholder year once you spend $4,000 on purchases within the first 3 months of account opening. We see this being worth about $1,000 in travel, which is better than the previous offer which didn’t have this $250 travel credit.

Click for more details and booking links Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card: Bonus offer increased: $250 Capital One Travel credit and 75,000 miles after $4,000 in purchases within the first 3 months of card membership.

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American Airlines has round-trip flights from Houston (IAH) to Tokyo (HND/NRT), for 50k points and $56 in taxes and fees. (25,000 points each-way). This is a good level for point redemptions for this route.

Offer is valid for reservations made from November 4, 2025, through 11:59 p.m. CT, November 16, 2025 for travel from January 12, 2026 – February 28, 2026.
American Airlines may, at any time and without notice, change, stop or end this offer.

To pull up the deal, go to the promo page and start plugging in dates within the Jan 12 – Feb 28 window.

This deal also covers other regions: Europe, Caribbean, and Mexico, and Domestic fares. Basically, all of these regions have cheaper point redemptions. We will focus on a few outliers today.

Click for more details and booking links AAdvantage miles redemption: Cheap Flights: Houston to Tokyo Haneda 50k points (+$56 tax/fees) r/t [25k points each-way] [January-February] (Deal ends Nov 16) – American Airlines

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Amex has recently increased the welcome offer for several of the co-branded Delta SkyMiles. This current offer is +25,000 higher than the best offer found on 02/06/25 for the Reserve card. This offer ends 10/29/2025. Other cards match the Bonus Miles of the best offer found on 02/06/25.

This means that if you’re planning to pick up any of these Delta SkyMiles cards, it’s probably a good time to do, as we haven’t seen offers this high in the previous 7 months.

Here is the list of the current offers:

Delta SkyMiles® Gold: Earn 80,000 Bonus Miles after you spend $3,000 in eligible purchases on your new Card in your first 6 months of Card Membership. Offer Ends 10/29/2025. (The previous offer was 50,000)

Delta SkyMiles® Platinum: Earn 90,000 Bonus Miles after you spend $4,000 in eligible purchases on your new Card in your first 6 months of Card Membership. Offer Ends 10/29/2025. (The previous offer was 60,000)

Delta SkyMiles® Reserve: Earn 125,000 Bonus Miles after you spend $6,000 in eligible purchases on your new Card in your first 6 months of Card Membership. Offer Ends 10/29/2025. (The previous offer was 70,000)

Click for more details and booking links DEAL EXPIRED: Delta SkyMiles® Credit Cards: Welcome offers have increased as high as 125,000 Bonus Miles after you spend $6,000 in eligible purchases. Offer Ends 10/29/2025.

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Amex has increased the welcome offer for the American Express® Gold Card. You may now be eligible for as high as 100,000 Membership Rewards® Points after spending $6,000 in eligible purchases on your new Card in your first 6 months of Membership. This is better than the previous maximum offer of 60,000 Membership Rewards® Points. Note that welcome offers vary and you may not be eligible for the highest offer or an offer at all. You’ll have the option to withdraw your application if it ends up not being what you want.

Click for more details and booking links American Express® Gold Card: Welcome offer is now as high as 100,000 Membership Rewards® points

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For a limited time, you can book flights within the U.S., to Domestic destinations, to Mexico, the Caribbean and more for as low as 5,000 miles each-way; and also to Europe from 15,000 miles one way. Terms and Conditions apply.

You can do this as a round-trip, just double the redemption values and find the matching return flight.

Book between May 15 and May 28 2025. Expires midnight Central Time. Travel between Aug 01 and Sep 30 2025.

To pull up the fare and find prospects, plug your city into the search bar on the promotional page.

Click for more details and booking links AAdvantage Miles Redemption Deals: Each-way 5000 points for Mexico, Caribbean, Domestic fares / 15,000 points for London / 20,000 points for Europe [Aug-Sep]

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jetBlue is having a points sale.

We’re seeing a few stand out examples like:

IAH-Boston 5800 points + $5.60 tax/fees.
IAH-New York 5500 points + $5.60 tax/fees.

Sale ends today 3/12/25.

Offer details:

Book an award flight by March 12, 2025. Valid on new bookings only & cannot be applied to existing bookings.
Fly March 19 – June 11, 2025 (with blackout dates 4/9-4/30)

Click for more details and booking links jetBlue points sale: Houston to/from Boston or New York for (5.5k-5.8k points + $5.60 tax/fees each-way)

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THIS DEAL HAS EXPIRED.

There is a new offer for the Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card and it’s the best we’ve seen historically. Now earn 75,000 Miles and a one-time $250 Capital One Travel credit to use in your first cardholder year once you spend $4,000 on purchases within the first 3 months of account opening. We see this being worth about $1,000 in travel, which is better than the previous offer which didn’t have this $250 travel credit.

Click for more details and booking links EXPIRED: Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card: – Bonus offer increased – $250 Capital One Travel credit and 75,000 miles after $4,000 in purchases within the first 3 months of card membership. This elevated offer is ending on 5/12/2025.

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Chase has recently changed the sign-up bonus for the Southwest Rapid Rewards® Plus Credit Card and the Southwest Rapid Rewards® Priority Credit Card. You can now earn a companion-pass that is good until February 28, 2026 and also gain 30,000 Rapid Rewards points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months of being approved for one of these cards.

Click for more details and booking links DEAL EXPIRED: Southwest Rapid Rewards® Credit Cards: Earn a companion-pass that expires next year and 30,000 points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening!

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Amex has recently increased the welcome offer for several of the co-branded Delta SkyMiles.

Here is the list of the current offers:

Delta SkyMiles® Gold: 80,000 Bonus Miles after you spend $3,000 in purchases on your new card in your first 6 months of card membership.
Delta SkyMiles® Platinum: 90,000 Bonus Miles after you spend $4,000 in purchases on your new card in your first 6 months of card membership.
Delta SkyMiles® Reserve: 100,000 Bonus Miles after you spend $6,000 in purchases on your new card in your first 6 months of card membership.

Click for more details and booking links DEAL EXPIRED: Delta SkyMiles® Credit Cards: Welcome offer increased to 80,000 bonus miles for the Delta SkyMiles Gold after $3,000 in purchases within the first 6 months of card membership. Offer ends 04/02/2025.

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THIS DEAL HAS EXPIRED – WE ARE LEAVING THE OLD OFFER DETAILS HERE SO WE CAN COMPARE IT TO FUTURE OFFERS.

These new offers are 10,000 more than what they were previously last month. Of these offerings, we think that the United Explorer Card has the best perk to annual fee ratio because we find a lot of value in being able to use it to book on United Basic Economy and get the free first bag perk with priority boarding. Those two perks alone negate a lot of the downside to basic economy.

Click for more details and booking links DEAL EXPIRED – United MileagePlus® Credit Cards: Welcome offers have increased. Now earn between 30,000 to 90,000 points depending on the card.

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There is a new offer for the Southwest Rapid Rewards® Plus Credit Card and the Southwest Rapid Rewards® Priority Credit Card. Earn a $400 statement credit and 40,000 Southwest Rapid Rewards points after you spend $3,000 on purchases in the first 4 months from account opening.

This offer is competitive to the previous offers for this card. The previous high was an 85,000 point offer which was last seen on Jun 5th, 2024. We consider this offer to be competitive because a $400 statement credit is worth about 40,000 points if you value 1 point being equal to about 1 cent. When you add the statement credit together with the 40,000 points you get for opening the account, it is roughly the same value in our opinion.

Click for more details and booking links DEAL EXPIRED: Southwest Rapid Rewards® Credit Cards: $400 statement credit and 40,000 Southwest Rapid Rewards after you spend $3,000 on purchases in the first 4 months from account opening.

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If you have been looking to get a Chase Sapphire Card, now may be a good time to pick one up due to an additional statement credit bonus for new card members. Get up to $300 in statement credit on Chase Travel℠ purchases within your first year and also earn 60,000 bonus points after $4,000 in purchases within the first 3 months of card membership. The offer that was previously running did not include any statement credit bonus.

When compared to previous offers such as the May 2023 offer of 80,000 points or the May 2024 offer of 75,000 points this new October 2024 offer is a good value. Hypothetically, if you were to convert $300 to points at a penny per point, you would end up with 30,000 + the 60,000 sign-up offer.

You may be able to get a higher point offer by applying in-person at a local Chase branch office in person. There is a 70,000 + $300 offer available in branch only, but the spending requirements are higher, $6,000 in 6 months.

Click for more details and booking links (Deal EXPIRED) Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card: Get up to $300 in statement credits on Chase Travel℠ purchases within your first year and also earn 60,000 bonus points after $4,000 in purchases within the first 3 months of card membership

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We update our list of the best limited time offers every week, but we only send out this recap when there have been significant additions to the list. In this post we list coupon codes, discount codes, gift card discounts, and we watch for increases in credit card offers.

Links and up-to-date details for these offers are in this post.

(Ends 09-05-2024) Southwest 2-month Companion Pass. Register, then purchase one round trip or two one-way flights by 09/05/24. Travel by 11/20/24. Companion flies free with you 01/06/25 – 03/06/25.

(Ends 09-05-2024 @ 11:59 PM PT) 50% off base fares on Breeze. Use code “BIGDEAL”. Holiday blackouts apply.

(Ending 09-05-2024 @ 7am EST!) 120,000 points after spending $8,000 in the first 3-months of being approved for one of the best business card deals we’ve seen.

The coupon-code page on our website is updated often, consider bookmaking it for easy access.

Click for more details and booking links Added Southwest Companion Pass deal – Our updated list of coupon codes, discount codes, gift card discounts, and credit card bonuses as of 09/03/2024

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Flying Blue is the combined points program of KLM and Air France. At the start of each month they discount select routes. This month, Houston long-haul economy flights to Amsterdam and Paris are about are -11,250 cheaper due to this discount. It’s a good idea to check the promo landing page at the start of each month to see if anything worthwhile pops up.

This time KLM has round-trip flights from Houston (IAH) to Amsterdam or Paris (AMS, CDG) for 30,000 + $270-$279 tax/fees, NONSTOP or with a connection. Fare allows for carry-on bag and seat selection. Flights between August and December. Promo awards are refundable (with a €50 Euro fee) and changeable (with a €50 Euro fee + fare price difference).

Click for more details and booking links Flying Blue Points Nonstop: Houston to Amsterdam or Paris round-trip (30,000 points +$270-$279 tax/fees) [15,000 points each way] [Aug-Dec] – KLM / Air France / Flying Blue

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Chase has increased the sign-up bonus to 120,000 Ultimate Rewards points after spending $8,000 in the first 3-months of being approved for the card. This is an increase of +20,000 points when compared to the previous offer. This is the highest sign-up offer we’ve seen for this card so-far.

Click for more details and booking links EXPIRED DEAL – Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card: 120,000 Ultimate Rewards points after spending $8,000 in the first 3-months of being approved for the card. An increase of +20,000 points when compared to the previous offer.

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Amex has recently increased the welcome offer for several of the co-branded Delta SkyMiles.

Here is the list of the current offers:

Delta SkyMiles® Gold: 65,000 Bonus Miles after you spend $3,000 in purchases on your new card in your first 6 months of card membership.
Delta SkyMiles® Platinum: 85,000 Bonus Miles after you spend $4,000 in purchases on your new card in your first 6 months of card membership.
Delta SkyMiles® Reserve: 95,000 Bonus Miles after you spend $6,000 in purchases on your new card in your first 6 months of card membership.

Click for more details and booking links DEAL EXPIRED – Delta SkyMiles® Credit Cards: Welcome offers have increased. Offer expires 7/17/2024.

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Amex has recently increased the welcome offer for the Marriott Bonvoy Business® American Express® Card to 5 Free Night Awards after spending $8,000 in the first 6-months of card membership. The previous offer was 3 nights. Each bonus Free Night Award has a max redemption value of 50,000 Marriott Bonvoy Points. Which means that if you maximize where you stay, this welcome bonus is equivalent to 250,000 Marriott Bonvoy Points. Resort fees & terms apply.

This card has an annual fee of $125 so we can only recommend this card if you’re a Marriott loyalist that can utilize the card perks enough to offset the annual fee. 

Click for more details and booking links EXPIRED DEAL – Marriott Bonvoy Business® American Express® Card: Welcome offer increased to 5 Free Night Awards after spending $8,000 in the first 6-months of card membership (offer ends Jul-10)

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We update our list of the best limited time offers every week, but we only send out this recap when there have been significant additions to the list. In this post we list coupon codes, discount codes, gift card discounts, and we watch for increases in credit card offers.

The Chase Sapphire Preferred/Reserve has a new 75,000 Ultimate Rewards points sign-up offer.
Southwest flights are now bookable via the Chase Travel Portal and Google Flights.
Southwest is offering a limited time Companion Pass (which is valid 39-days, starting on October-5th) if you book a flight to Hawaii in the next 2-days.
Hyatt is offering 20% off Europe, Africa and the Middle East Hotels (registration required).
Amex is offering $50 off when you spend $250 at Grand Hyatt (registration required).
Hopper offers the following coupons: $100 off Singapore Airlines flights to Singapore, $50 Air New Zealand, $100 off Fiji Airways. $50 off Royal Air Maroc flights, $50 off Air India flights.

Click for more details and booking links Our updated list of coupon codes, discount codes, gift card discounts, and credit card bonuses as of 05/22/2024

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