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I hope that you’ve enjoyed the past week of travel information – here’s a recap of what you may have missed from Points With a Crew over the past week or so

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The biggest news of the week was the fact that American Express SHUT DOWN most people’s Bluebird / Serve account.

My account has escaped the carnage (so far), but we’re still looking for patterns regarding who got shutdown and who did not.

And here I was worried about this “important” notice to everyone’s Serve account

 


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Mrs. PWaC was commenting over dinner the other day about the amazing sights we saw in 2015

So like any good travel blogger, I turned it into a post!

Read more at: The 9 amazing sights I saw this year

 


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I used 50,000 Avios to book 2 business class tickets on Aer Lingus back in September

Our flight was canceled (!), and we were rebooked in Economy

Now, 4 months later, I’m STILL trying to get my 25,000 Avios back

 

 


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There are 3 good parts to making sure you’re getting the most of the miles and points for your credit cards.

First it’s signing up for new cards – here’s the 140,000 miles plus cash I got from my latest credit card churn

Santa got me a travel hacking present to organize my credit cards

And now it’s time to clean out my credit cards

 

 


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Miles, Points and Credit Cards

Other travel news

If you’re still up for more travel reading, here’s last week’s recap: What’s better? 100,000 points for a few hours work, or my awesome travel hacking Christmas present?


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