Tons to cover in today’s Middle Age Miles “News & Notes”: 1. Staples No Longer on In-Store Portals/Apps As we first reported yesterday evening in our “MS DP Series – Follow-Up Part 1” article, Staples is no longer on a…
MS DP Series – Follow-Up Part 1 – Reviewing Episodes 1-4
Introduction Our recent Manufactured Spend Data Points (MS DP) series proved to be very popular. As regular readers will recall, we started off as total rookies on the subject of MS with Visa Gift Cards (VGCs) and Mastercard Gift Cards…
Middle Age Miles News & Notes 9/10/19 – Hyatt; More on AAdvantage eShopping; LifeMiles; Travel to Syria; and Plastiq Promo
We’re back with another edition of “News & Notes” today, with 5 more items that we hope you’ll find interesting: 1. Hyatt Worldwide Promotion Hyatt announced a new worldwide bonus points promotion yesterday, which will run from September 15 through…
Look for Middle Age Miles on American Ninja Warrior Tonight!
A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about our very fun experience attending part of the taping of the Vegas Finals of this season of American Ninja Warrior and gave tips on how you can attend next year. If you…
Hilton Honors “Power Up” Double/Triple Points Promo Starts Today (September 9)
Summary of the Promotion From today (Monday, September 9) through January 5, 2020, earn double Hilton Honors (HH) base points on stays at Hilton-family properties. If you hold a Hilton Honors co-branded credit card from Amex and use it to…
Middle Age Miles News & Notes 9/9/19 – Amex Offers for Waldorf/Conrad, Marriott & ESPN+; Upromise for Choice & IHG; AAdvantage eShopping Promo; Dosh/Kroger
It’s the first edition of our new “News & Notes” series that we promised in our recent “1st Birthday” article! We hope that we can use this series to get out to our readers more tricks, tips and news that…
AA Business Extra Has a Great New Enrollment Promo – But It Has Tightened the Verification Process
Introduction American Airlines Business Extra is a very nice loyalty/rewards program for small businesses with employees that fly on AA. A company that enrolls in Business Extra can earn points for each flight taken by its employees on AA, British…
Keep or Cancel – Citi AA Executive Card
Executive Summary I believe that this will be our shortest “keep or cancel” article ever. We’re paying the $450 annual fee and keeping Philly’s Citi AA Executive card open. For us, it’s a no-brainer given that it comes with a…
It’s Middle Age Miles’ 1st Birthday!
It’s a celebratory day here at Middle Age Miles – it’s our 1st birthday!!! Reflecting on Our First Year We wanted to take a minute to reflect on our first year of blogging about travel, credit cards and points-and-miles. We’ve…
Additional Tidbits from a Trip to Vegas
Introduction Middle Age Miles spent Labor Day weekend in Las Vegas with friends and had a great time. Earlier this afternoon, we posted a detailed article about using benefits through the Signature Travel program to score great hotel deals in…