Monday Funday

  • Get 1,000 Southwest miles this tax season from Turbo Tax (can buy Turbo Tax through BigCrumbs for 10.5% cash back)
  • Pick up 500 free Alaska Air miles for an insurance quote from Esurance 
  • Register here for double points (or miles) from Hilton
  • 1,000 Delta Skymiles for staying at a Marriott
  • 15,000 American Airlines miles from Energy Plus
  • Bonuses for buying American or Virgin miles
  • 25,000 American miles from DirecTV extended one more month

Lisa Lubin

Last month, I talked about a friend of MileNerd,  Steve Gempeler. Today, it’s my pleasure to mention another – Lisa Lubin. As one of the biggest travel bloggers around, she’s already an inspiration to some of you. Her story is the type of thing that frees the rest of us up to take more risks in life. I was fortunate enough to be interviewed by her here and I hope you enjoy it!

Thursday Triple

  • Lots of you are frustrated with airlines getting in the way of AwardWallet. Personally, I’m still loyal to AwardWallet and hope they’ll find more solutions. Still, I’m here to show you all the good choices for your miles. Some people think there’s a possible good competitor for AwardWallet here. 
  • For you new year’s resolutioners – grab 2,000 United Airlines miles for a gym membership here.
  • After a bad customer service experience at BankDirect, I stopped posting anything about them. But they have a new refer-a-friend program worth looking at here. It’s 1,000 American Airlines miles for the person who refers and 1,000 for the one who gets referred. BankDirect is an easy way to earn miles every month if you have a good amount of money in your checking account. I just didn’t like my customer service experience there and I hate the $12 monthly fee. If you’re looking for someone to refer you, find someone fast here.

Interesting Card Offer

I’ll have the latest Top 25 Credit Card post up next week, but here’s an interesting one in the meantime for some of you… 

LAN (which specializes in flights to South America) has a 20,000 mile offer here. Get the bonus after your first use. It’s not a huge amount, but this one isn’t through any of the main 3 issuers. It’s a jackpot finding cards from anyone other than Chase/Citibank/Amex. This bad boy is from US Bank.

Welcome To 2013

Tonight is my first attempt at writing a post after a champagne toast (or 4). I don’t drink much, so if I make it through this without a typo…well, that’s not going to happen. Here goes nothing…

2,500 free Jet Airways miles for new members who sign up through their Facebook page here. They’re free miles, so everyone should take them. That being said, they’re extra useful for anyone traveling to India in the future.