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American Express Delta Gold Card

Going down another step in annual fee from the Delta Reserve and Delta Platinum cards, it’s time to check out the Delta Gold cards. Like with the Reserve and Platinum, Amex offers both a personal and a business version of this card, and like before, I’m going to cover both flavors of the card here.Continue reading “American Express Delta Gold Card”

American Express Delta Platinum Cards

Having now talked about the Delta Reserve cards, I decided to be a bit more methodical about my airline co-branded card discussions and cover the Delta Platinum cards. Like with the Reserve, Amex offers both a personal and a business version of this card, and like before, I’m going to cover both flavors of theContinue reading “American Express Delta Platinum Cards”

American Express UK British Airways credit cards

It’s been a long time since I have talked about UK credit cards, but on a recent trip to the UK (which will probably come up on the blog in a couple months), British Airways was pushing their credit cards, and I remembered I should revisit these credit cards. There are two version, a £0Continue reading “American Express UK British Airways credit cards”

Flagship First on my favorite route: LAX-BOS

As regular readers will know, American Airlines is eliminating its Flagship First Class product by the end of this year. However, due to continued delays at both Airbus and Boeing, no official date has been set. The plan is to remove Flagship First from existing aircraft once American Airlines starts taking delivery of its newContinue reading “Flagship First on my favorite route: LAX-BOS”

American Express Delta Reserve Cards

Following up on the series of comparisons of the major US airlines’ credit cards, we’re jumping to one of the top-tier cards: The Delta Amex Reserve. The Delta Amex cards are interesting because they offer both business and personal versions of most of them. Since they’re so similar, I’m going to cover both flavors ofContinue reading “American Express Delta Reserve Cards”

Portland to San Francisco!

My first weekend trip of 2024 was with a pair of friends to Portland, Oregon. We picked Portland because it was included in a Southwest sale from LA and (in one direction) from Oakland. On the way back, however, Southwest didn’t have any good options for me to get back to Oakland, so instead, IContinue reading “Portland to San Francisco!”

Elite status and wallet plans: 2024

Now that 2023 has come to a close, I thought I should do an elite status and wallet plan for 2024. I last wrote a wallet plan quite a while ago, so I’m due for an update. I’ll first talk about the credit cards I plan to use and then the elite statuses I’ll have in 2024.Continue reading “Elite status and wallet plans: 2024”

2024 begins! Flagship First JFK-SFO

Welcome to my first 2024 flight of the blog! This flight happened only one day after my last flight of 2023, since it was time for me to head back to California because I had to go to work on Jan 2. I had originally booked the 9 pm flight using points, but as isContinue reading “2024 begins! Flagship First JFK-SFO”

2023 retrospective

I’m a bit late this year on the retrospective summary because of having to deal with some backend technical issues on the blog. The good news is that I’ve now uploaded all my 2023 flights of note onto the blog. So now, it’s time to take a look back through the year. I use aContinue reading “2023 retrospective”

Let’s squeeze in one final 2023 flight: DCA-HPN

When planning out the end of my 2023 travels, I had expected the flight from SFO to Richmond, VA to be my last 2023 flight on the blog. However, I had one final interesting flight to share on December 31. I flew from Washington DC National Airport to White Plains, NY for a New YearsContinue reading “Let’s squeeze in one final 2023 flight: DCA-HPN”