Monthly Archives: December, 2016

The Milelion’s 2016 year in review

Ah, 2016. The year that many people will look at and say, "let us never speak of that again". I thought it'd be fun to do a quick review of The Milelion's 2016,...

Reflections on Garuda’s 90% promotion and my visit to Garuda’s offices

Years from now, when we look back at Garuda's 90% off award tickets promo, we'll still be arguing about just what it was that Garuda wanted to achieve with this. The most convincing theory I...

How does a 20th century airline seat hold up today?

Going to Bangkok post-Christmas has become something of a ritual for me. It's not that Thai food or massages or shopping are particularly good elixirs for an entire month of overeating, but...

SQ’s Santa’s Gift Grab Game has interesting (albiet limited) economy deals

Singapore Airlines has launched the Singapore Air Games site where you play a series of poorly coded HTML5 games (I'm guessing it's HTML5, but the tech savvy among us can humiliate me in...

The Milelion Wishes all Readers a Very Blessed Christmas

The Milelion wishes all readers (yes, even those of you who use cashback cards) a very blessed Christmas. Here's hoping that even amidst the turmoil of the loss of 90% award discounts and...

Garuda pulls 90% award sale early, promises to honor existing award holds

Well that didn't last long. Garuda Indonesia has pulled its astounding 90% off award ticket sale, a full 7 days before it was originally scheduled to end. In a way, it's not surprising....

Shopback-AMEX free money offer, $50+$50 up for grabs

Christmas comes early-ish as Shopback and AMEX have teamed up to offer $50 cashback and a $50 welcome voucher for any shopback user (sign up using my link and I get $5,...

Garuda is offering 90% off redemptions. How do we make this work?

Garuda has announced a 90% off award redemptions sale for all routes, all cabin classes. This is real. This is happening. The interweb is going crazy. The biggest upside of this promotion for us...