very cool chatbot milepoint!

Even though I drew the winners today for the free travel assistant for a year, you can still redeem the code PIZZAINMOTION for 2 free months. Here are the instructions: Navigate to their sign-up page and you’ll see a link labeled “I have a referral or promotion code”. Plug in the code: PIZZAINMOTION. That’s it. 2 free months. Now, for our winners: Elaine left this comment: Hi, I surfed over here thanks to Trevor’s tweet. What I’m booking right now is a month in southern Africa and it is a challenge. Indeed, I never use

While it is a lot of fun to see and rack up the miles and points, it is even more fun to plan out and execute a trip using those miles and points. We have been fortunate to travel all over as a result of miles and points and it is just one of the coolest things knowing it is possible to just pick a place on a map and go for pennies on the dollars. This post will help you to do the same. If you are newcomer to the world of miles and points, this post will

Bilt’s incredible 100% transfer bonus to Air France Flying Blue on May 1st suddenly has me drooling over Bilt Rewards points. This may be the first transfer bonus I’ve ever seen where I think it’s worth transferring even without a plan for how to use the points. While it’s too late for amassing Bilt points in time for this Flying Blue promo, it now seems like a good idea to earn Bilt points for future promos. How best to get them? Unlike many other points programs, Bilt doesn’t offer a big welcome bonus for getting their credit card. So, we

I don’t book domestic premium class awards often, especially with American Airlines. I primarily opt for economy, pick my Main Cabin Extra seat, and allow my elite status to do the rest. After all, a higher priority for complimentary upgrades is perhaps the biggest perk I can obtain from American status, or more specifically, my rolling 12-month Loyalty Point balance. They’ve cleared at a pretty reasonable rate the past few years, particularly to and from my midsized regional airport. So I’m probably not attuned to particular nuances which more frequent, consistently-premium class travelers are. But based on a recent experience,

AI is taking over upgrade assignments for Marriott, Crypto.com just launched a credit card, and we’ve finally finished organizing our team’s Million Mile Madness highlight reel footage so you can watch (or re-watch) each contestant’s trip journey as individual recap videos. Starting July 14, Marriott’s AI Alone Will Assign Your Room And Decide If You Deserve An Upgrade July 14, AI will take over upgrade assignment decisions at Marriott hotels. In a OMAAT article we featured in a previous Saturday Selection, we learned (according to an employee who’d posted about it on reddit) that Marriott staff have already

At long last, point.me is here. Regular readers likely remember us writing about award search tool JuicyMiles over the past few years. If, like me, you came to really enjoy that tool, you have probably been in withdrawal for months since it closed down. Thankfully, point.me has arrived on the scene. I’ve had a chance to play with the tool and frankly I love it. Pricing is quite reasonable. Searches can feel a bit slow at first, but given the information returned it seems like a fair enough trade. This is certainly a cool tool that can make your life

Apparently the United Airlines AI chatbot can be tricked with “Scott Kirby said…” Andrew Gao, who works at an AI startup, put the United virtual assistant through its paces when it wasn’t giving the help that he was looking for. i had to prompt inject the @united airlines bot because it kept refusing to connect me with a human what led up to this breaking point pic.twitter.com/vtT43FUsD9 — andrew gao (@itsandrewgao) September 6, 2025 Gao started with a straightforward question: he wanted to cancel the return leg of a roundtrip ticket and asked

A recent experience with xAI’s Grok demonstrated that AI can be surprisingly good at evaluating award charts and redemption value. In the last couple of weeks, Turkish Airlines announced a challenge to engage its audience and demonstrate the breadth of its expansive network. “Miles&Smiles members who fly to 6 continents with Turkish Airlines will be awarded 1,000,000 Miles.” The website listed where each country was considered to reside and avoid any confusion, for example, Russia is considered Europe and not Asia though it spans both. Intended to run through October 27th, 2025, the challenge spurred interest but

Delta Air Lines partner mileage runs can be a very cost-effective and quick way to earn a bunch of MQD toward elite status. (Here’s how and why.) AeroMexico business class mileage runs to Europe are particularly popular with our readers. But something peculiar happened in the last part of 2021: AeroMexico trips from the United States to Europe pretty much disappeared from not only booking sites but even AeroMexico’s own website. (I know one of the agents at Point.Me was resourceful and booked some AeroMexico trips to Europe for a couple of people. That’s one of the reasons we

For those of you that don’t know (I can’t figure out who that might be), I’m a bit of a frequent flyer mile geek. Over the past 5 years, I’ve amassed well over 2 million points/miles, and they’ve bought such things as: 2 upgrades to Business Class to Rome 2 free Business Class tickets to Rome 7 free coach tickets to Puerto Rico 4 free First Class tickets to Seattle 3 free coach tickets to Tallahassee 3 free Business Class tickets to Rome Various free hotel rooms around the world Most of