Guides
Airline miles guides
20 guides covering buying, selling, valuation, award travel and account safety. No affiliate padding, no invented rates.
Buying
8 min readHow to buy airline milesA practical walkthrough of buying airline miles: when it makes sense, how airline purchase pages work, what the risks are, and how to compare a quote against paying cash.7 min readWhen buying miles makes senseThe four scenarios where buying airline miles is defensible, the situations where it almost never is, and the arithmetic that separates them.7 min readBuying miles vs paying cashA side-by-side decision framework covering cost, flexibility, earning, protection and risk, so you can tell which option genuinely wins.
Selling
8 min readHow to sell airline milesWhat happens when you request a sell quote for airline miles, what information is needed, what the programme terms mean for you, and how to think about risk.6 min readHow a miles marketplace worksWhat a genuine quote desk does, why fixed public rate tables are misleading, and how MilesQuote handles buy and sell requests.
Valuation
9 min readHow to value airline milesA repeatable method for working out what your airline miles are worth, using real redemptions rather than published valuation tables.5 min readCents per mile, explainedWhat cents per mile means, how to calculate it correctly, and the three mistakes that make most published figures unreliable.6 min readAirline miles vs credit card pointsWhy transferable bank points and airline miles behave differently, and what that means for how much of each you should hold.6 min readExpiry and devaluation riskHow airline miles lose value over time through expiry rules and award price increases, and what you can do about both.6 min readTransferring miles between programmesWhich transfers are officially possible, how shared currencies like Avios work, and why most cross-airline transfers are not available at all.8 min readAirline miles for beginnersA plain-language introduction to frequent-flyer programmes: how miles are earned, what they are worth, and the first decisions worth getting right.
Award travel
7 min readAward charts and dynamic pricingHow fixed award charts, distance-based charts and dynamic pricing differ, and what each model means for the value of your miles.8 min readFinding award availabilityA systematic approach to locating award seats: where to search, how partner inventory works, and why flexibility is worth more than any tool.6 min readAn award travel planning timelineWhen to search, when to top up a balance, and when to give up and buy a cash ticket — a month-by-month planning sequence.7 min readAirline alliances explainedWhat Star Alliance, oneworld and SkyTeam actually do for award travellers, and why non-alliance partnerships often matter just as much.6 min readTaxes and surcharges on awardsWhy two identical award tickets can carry wildly different cash charges, and how to route around carrier-imposed surcharges.7 min readPremium cabin awardsWhy business and first class redemptions produce most of the value in frequent-flyer programmes, and how to target them deliberately.
Safety
6 min readSelling miles safelyHow to evaluate anyone offering to buy your airline miles, the warning signs of a scam, and the questions to ask before sharing any account information.6 min readAvoiding miles scamsThe common fraud patterns in the miles market, the signals that separate legitimate counterparties from scams, and what to do if something goes wrong.5 min readFrequent flyer account securityPractical steps to protect a valuable mileage balance: authentication, monitoring, recovery planning and the mistakes that expose accounts.
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