Sentences with phrase «about miles and points»

I was having lunch with my friend the other day, and we started talking about miles and points.

The best way to learn about miles and points is through dummy bookings.

The information is broad enough not to intimidate those just learning about miles and points, but advanced enough so that even the most seasoned traveler will either learn something new or be reminded of something important.

So I started doing some researching about the miles and points «game», and after a few months, completed my first ever credit card signup in January 2013.

As you learn more about miles and points, you'll gradually understand how to earn and redeem airline miles by maximizing alliances and partnerships effectively.

If you're trying to reach elite status at a hotel chain or airline by spending a certain amount in a year on your hotel - or airline - affiliated credit card, the benefits you'll get may be worth more to you than the amount of the fee, notes Gary Leff, who blogs about his miles and points obsession at View From the Wing..

So bookmark this site, mess around with it and you'll know more about miles and points and which points and miles are best for what and where before you know it.

I learned about miles and points by helping him haul gold coins to the bank back when you could buy them from the mint with no shipping costs to rack up spends on your miles - earning credit cards and falling asleep to the sound of United's hold music when he booked crazy routes with those miles.

So we know about miles and points because we need miles and points in order to travel.

People who know a lot about miles and points have a lot of tricks up their sleeves that are not always evident to those who are new to the hobby.

We all love to talk about the miles and points we earn and how we spend them for free trips and other goodies, but we don't always pay attention to the actual costs of earning those miles.

Do you already know a fair bit about miles and points?

The biggest thing about miles and points with credit cards is you have to have a good credit score and never ever carry a balance.You also have see value in opening multiple credit cards.

Learning a bit about miles and points might be your key to an amazing Spring Break trip.

I also have no - annual fee cards from Capital One and Bank of America which are among my first credit cards when I didn't know about miles and points!

Not exact matches

Mulvaney also preemptively addressed questions about the cost of the wall and how many miles could be paid for by the requested sum, pointing to the still - uncertain plans for its construction.

If you're using a rewards credit card, think about saving and redeeming your points or miles strategically, she said.

Robert Burgess, editor at Head for Points, talks about the most cost - effective way to use air miles and which airlines have the best schemes.

The distance between Stockholm and Helsinki is about 300 miles, and doing the math, the figure points to about $ 36.7 million cost per kilometer or about $ 64 million for every mile.

He points to Santa Clara, California - based Intel Corporation's decision to build a large research and development (R&D) facility in DuPont, Washington, about 10 miles south of Tacoma, as an example.

In my conversations about this, people usually then turn to the book of Revelation and point out how when Jesus returns a second time, He is going to kill so many people that there will be a lake of blood 200 miles wide and as deep as a horse's bridle (Rev 14:20).

And so it is, to a large extent, with the other saints» cults as well, a point vividly illustrated in the testimony of several of the children of Sanchez, for whom the Lord of Chalma (another cult, centered about sixty miles southwest of Mexico City) was the focus of their spiritual life.48 Even when the cult is community oriented — as in the case of agricultural saints — it remains largely apolitical.

There's an emerging conversation among supply chain leaders at major food and ingredients companies about the concept of «food miles,» and how the extended supply chain is reaching a point where we could face a situation where the food chain becomes unsustainable in certain parts of the world.

Located just two miles from Old Town Temecula, the La Quinta Inn & Suites Temecula is surrounded by antique shops, golf courses, and wineries, and is just about the half point between Los Angeles and San Diego.

About three miles east I stop again at a small deserted beach and walk along under walls marked «private» that ring the water around the sweeping half - mile curve that leads to the rocky point where I am headed.

The Gloucester Fox Hunters Plate, a race of about three miles over 22 timber fences, was the fifth of six events and the day's high point.

Nearby, a crazed man with a speech impediment and possibly a methamphetamine problem was talking a mile a minute about the 54 points Michael Jordan had hung on the New York Knicks that afternoon.

We have made it a point since my daughter started kindergarten to when it's not 107 degrees outside, walk to her school which is about 3/4 in a mile and then walk home with her.

The state's proposed expressway would start at its present terminus at Lake - Cook Road near Buffalo Grove and run north through central Lake County to a point just south of Grayslake, then east along Illinois Highway 120 to the Tri-State Tollway near Waukegan, a distance of about 19 miles.

But community groups are concerned about the potential for accidents, and environmentalists about the toll nuclear takes on water resources and the wildlife killed when reactors use river or lake water for cooling — particularly at Indian Point, less than 30 miles north of New York City on the Hudson River.

Sitting along the lower Hudson River, Indian Point is about 30 miles north of New York City and about 50 miles southeast of Kingston

Saturday's shutdown came about two hours before a power outage darkened a stretch of the Hudson Valley and nearby Pennsylvania, about 45 miles away from Indian Point.

Indian Point is just 24 miles north of New York City and is located about a mile from where two earthquake fault lines intersect.

«Two fault lines intersect about a mile north of Indian Point and a Columbia University study tells us a 7.0 magnitude earthquake is quite possible,» Gally said.

When Stern and the Pluto Underground were sitting down to dinner in 1989, the planet had reached its near point to the sun at about 2.7 billion miles and had begun receding toward the far end of its orbit, about 4.5 billion miles out.

All the clues pointed to one answer: A giant wave had struck Palaikastro Bay while freshly fallen ash from Thera was still lying about, inundating the town for miles inland and streaking it with strange patterns of ash.

After separating from the motor, the payload section carrying FORTIS continued the ascent, reaching a high point of about 173 miles — a zone between the range of weather balloons and satellites.

The fliers in this nebula, which appear as two red blobs against a pale green background of radiation, seem to be moving fast enough — about 100,000 miles per hour — to fit Balick's original theory, but they also have backward - pointing bow shocks, as though an even faster wind were coming from behind and pushing past them.

With more than 17 million Americans now living within one mile of an oil and gas well, there is concern about the possible contamination of surface and groundwater by trace metals, radioactive isotopes and other inorganic compounds released in these areas, they point out.

Armed with a clear timeline, the archeologist Marean was able to show that those human ancestors living at Pinnacle Point and Vleesbaai — located about five miles apart — showed remarkable improvement in their life style during the volcanic winter caused by the Toba eruption.

Deimos is about 9.3 miles across (15 km) at its largest point and is farther from Mars than Phobos.

On October 19 at 11:27 am PDT, Siding Spring reached its closest point to Mars, passing within 87,000 miles (139,500 km) of the planet or about a third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

The JWST will have a mirror 6.5 metres (21.3 feet) in diameter, seven times larger than that of the HST, and will orbit the Sun in a Lissajous pattern around the second Lagrangian point, about 1.5 million km (930,000 miles) from Earth on the planet's nightside.

The island measures about 14 miles (22 km) by 7 miles (11 km) at its furthest points and it is often said that it can be traversed by foot in a single day.

Another Toyota researcher, Taiyo Kawai, general manager - fuel - cell system development, estimates the crossover point for battery - electric and fuel - cell vehicles is a driving range of about 90 miles (144 km) and expects the two powerplants to co-exist.

I took my 2006 Prius on a trip and at some point I drove for about 15 miles in unpaved road.

What the 51 - year - old Italian is pondering is anyone's guess, but there's a good chance he's thinking about the upcoming Transpacific Yacht Race, the storied competition that challenges billionaires, thrill seekers, and bucket - list romantics to traverse 2,225 nautical miles from San Pedro, California's Point Fermin buoy to the Diamond Head Lighthouse in Honolulu, Hawaii, relying solely on wind power.

Originally posted on Reddit, the photo was eventually published by the folks at Teslarati, and they point out that the truck was caught near Inyokern Airport in Kern County, which is about 150 miles away from Tesla's design center, the location where the automaker will unveil the semi truck.

We then tested the other, completely stock GT - R and found it produced a solid 506bhp with 485 lb ft, but before any conclusions are jumped to about the Y - pipe, I should point out that this car had only covered 1500 miles, so probably had a considerably tighter mill than Godzilla 2.

I got an oil change, tire rotation, and multi point inspection on a car with less than 14K miles in about 1 hr.