Frequent flyer miles can be your ticket to free flights, cabin upgrades or elite status, which can provide you with big perks ...

For example, the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card, with an annual fee of $99 (which is only $26 more than the Southwest Plus), earns 3 points per dollar on dining (including eligible delivery ...

For example, redeeming miles for a round-trip ticket from Minneapolis to San Francisco, I can either pay 55,200 SkyMiles, plus a $12 fee or a cash fare of $597 for a Main cabin ticket.

You can now officially book Southwest Airlines flights with an assigned seat. The carrier just started selling flights that ...

Virgin Australia has two branded credit cards: The Flyer Card and High Flyer Card. You can receive up to 25,000 points for the first four months, if you reach the spending limit.

A Highly Valuable Asset for Airlines Loyalty programs and co-branded credit cards are some of the most valuable assets for an airline. For example, United MileagePlus is valued at $22 billion.

The RBA itself warned the programs could be scaled back in response to an interchange fee cap, which could deliver a hit of ...

Airlines can make additional revenue by selling frequent-flyer miles to their credit-card partners. In turn, the credit card companies issue them to cardholders as spending rewards. For example ...