Review — Turkish Airlines A330–300 — Montreal to Istanbul — Business Class

I have to admit that Istanbul has always been on my bucket list of cities to visit but on this particular day, I was just as excited to fly Turkish Airlines Business Class for the first time. It seems…

Tools I Use — Star Alliance Routing Map

Today, I am starting a series called Tools I Use so that people new to Travel Hacking will have these tools in their toolbelt because it’s much easier to teach people to fish than it is to give them a fish everyday.

How I Hack — Explaining Arbitrage and How to Take Advantage of the Marriott/SPG Merger

Review — National Bank Lounge — Montreal

On this trip, I ran into two terrible lounges. This is one of them.

On the surface, this lounge is fine. The seating is comfortable, there are decent food options, there’s free booze as well as magazines and newspapers. The thing…

Review — Avianca A320 — Sao Paulo to Rio de Janeiro — Economy

On the only economy class ticket on my mini-RTW (Round the World) trip, we flew on Avianca’s A320 from Sao Paulo to Rio. Now I don’t have any pictures to share because I was a sweaty mess due to our flight from Johannesburg…

How I Hack — Explaining Arbitrage and How to Take Advantage of the Marriott/SPG Merger

Warning

[highlight color=”#eeee22" rounded=”no” class=”” id=””]I will warn you right at the beginning of this post that we are going to be exploring…

Credit Card Review — Alaska Airlines World Elite Mastercard

Today I am reviewing the Alaska Airlines World Elite Mastercard because as I have discovered over the past year or so, Alaska Airline’s Mileage Plan is an incredibly powerful program that not a lot of people know about. I will…

Review — Maple Leaf Lounge — Calgary

Calgary is home for me and while I’ve stopped chasing airline status a long time ago, the Maple Leaf Lounge was always one of the aspirational things that I wanted access to when I started down the path of travel hacking. There’s just something about being able to…