Brian Kelly, founder of The Points Guy, maintains a credit score over 800 despite holding 30 credit cards.

The Chase Sapphire Reserve card provides up to $10,000 in built-in travel insurance coverage for incidents like illness.

The AI tool With Autopilot automatically tracks flight prices after booking and rebooks the flight to secure a voucher for any price difference.

The service Auto Slash automatically tracks rental car reservations and rebooks them if a lower price becomes available.

Airlines are increasingly restricting access to their best award seat inventory, making it available only to holders of their co-branded credit cards.

The Capital One lounge in Terminal 4 at JFK airport is open 24/7.

Achieving airline elite status can require as much as $20,000 in spending.

The tool Point.me helps users find the most efficient way to book award travel by analyzing their points balances and identifying optimal transfer partners.

An award flight from Berlin that was initially priced at 200,000 miles dropped to 68,000 miles three days before departure.

Loyalty programs like British Airways are increasingly adding high surcharges to award tickets, sometimes resulting in fees that exceed the cash price of the ticket.

The service AutoSlash tracks rental car bookings and helps users rebook if a lower price becomes available.

The tool seats.aero allows users to search for airline award seat availability for an entire year on a given route with a single click.

Google Hotels offers a price tracking feature that alerts users if the price of their booked hotel drops, allowing them to rebook at the lower rate.

Airlines often release saver-level award seats in the week leading up to a flight if the plane has open seats.

A significant change since the pandemic is that most frequent flyer programs now allow award tickets to be canceled free of charge.

Air France's frequent flyer program is offering one-way business class award tickets to Europe for 60,000 miles throughout the summer.

The Rewards Network program allows consumers to earn extra points by dining at specific partner restaurants.

The service Point.me offers a VIP concierge for booking award travel at a cost of approximately $150 per ticket.

JetBlue has a partnership with Qatar Airways, which is a transfer partner for all major credit card rewards programs.

Some airlines, such as British Airways, are levying high surcharges on award tickets, which can result in fees of $900 that exceed the cash price of an $800 economy flight.