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“Now you can actually use your points to offset the entire tax payment, if you have enough points for that,” Mona Hamouly, a spokesman for New York-based AmEx, said in a telephone interview.”
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San Diego Airport Examiner Joel Siegfried recently wrote and article describing the best way to keep track of your frequent flyer miles.
An innovative, secure, free web service lets travelers track their frequent flyer miles. It also does much more.
Why keep track of your miles? Because they may expire without you knowing. You wouldn’t throw away and airline ticket which is exactly what you are doing if you let your reward points and miles expire. Read Joel’s article in its entirety here…
Track Reward Points and Miles, for FREE!
As airlines and reward programs change their policies you could loose your miles, points and rewards without even knowing. Keeping track of expiration dates and making sure there is some activity on your reward accounts is critical. Wall Street Journal recently posted a very detailed explanation of why this happens and how to prevent it. Continue Reading…
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This is easy. Join Starbucks Card Rewards and you can get some pretty decent travel perks.
http://www.starbucks.com/CardRewards/
On average a person belongs to 6 reward programs. Keeping track of these can become more of a pain than a reward. LA Times’ Jen Leo has an answer.
And don’t worry about telling AwardWallet when your miles will expire. It does that for you and e-mails you a reminder before those miles go to waste.
On average we belong to 6 reward programs. This can be everything from credit card reward programs, airline frequent flyer programs, hotel, the list goes on. Keeping track of these can be a real pain. Scott Wilson from the LA Times recently reviewed a handful of tools that can help user track their reward points and miles.
I recently tried out six online services that offer to track your frequent-flier miles for you. I wanted one that would show all my family’s miles, plus the expiration dates (it’s no use accumulating miles only to see them suddenly disappear). Ideally, all the information should be on one page. And if I could get it all free, all the better.
Read the full article at the LA Times web site.