Earn American Miles With BankDirect

One way of earning American Advantage miles that is often overlooked these days is through a checking account at BankDirect. Now let me state up front, this is nowhere near as sexy as the latest manufactured spend technique. But it's also a lot easier to understand, so easy in fact that you can probably explain it to your grandmother. It's also a passive technique meaning you can set it up once and more or less forget about it.

If you don't mind getting paid in miles, you can earn a very hefty return on your checking account balance with BankDirect.

Although BankDirect offers a couple of banking products that pay interest in miles, I'm going to focus on the Mileage Checking With Interest accounts.

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Tunisia's Recovering Tourism Industry Set Back By Attacks

The tourism industry, vital to Tunisia's economy, will face lasting repercussions from Wednesday's shooting.



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You should date a girl who travels

All that crap about "don't date a girl who travels"? Yeah, that's ridiculous. Women who travel are awesome.



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Rick’s Picks: Why Everyone Should Get This Limited-Time Offer

This is a flat out call for you to apply for the IHG Rewards Club card from Chase before March 31, 2015. The limited-time offer of an extra 10,000 points will last only until the end of the month. This card and offer should be taken advantage for all playing this game. Here are my […]



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SkyTeam Award Improvements, a New Way to Bali, and What United Express Carriers Have to Agree To

News and notes from around the interweb: Crowdfunding an airline ticket so you can monitor your girlfriend. What could possibly go wrong? Skyteam’s alliance-wide online award booking tool should be rolled out globally by the end of the year American official arrested for bringing a firearm through the Islamabad airport. If he hadn’t done so, […]

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How to use data to transform your travel agency

Every travel agency generates data – the best ones use it. In this FREE Tnooz-Agentivity TLearn webinar we will discuss how you ...



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Project Loon successfully uses wind patterns to move Internet across continents

Project Loon has successfully managed to surf wind patterns in order to carry Internet from New Zealand to South American to Australia, ...



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Reader Request: My Credit Scores Dropped, Should I Close Cards?

One of our readers, Andrew A., sent an email asking about possibly closing some credit cards with smaller lines of credit. I wanted to share his experience on what he has seen happen to his credit score after shifting some of his credit around to pick up new cards. Here’s what he said: “I started […]



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May Natural History Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado

A giant roadside beetle and RV park belie the world-class quality of this Colorado Springs bug museum's collection.

Turning off of Colorado Highway 115 at the oversized model of the Giant West Indian Hercules Beetle, and driving back through the recreational vehicle campgrounds, one could be forgiven for expecting a certain amount kitsch at the May Natural History Museum. But beyond the gift shop and the Tiki warrior gods lie case after case exhibiting nearly 8,000 specimens from the extraordinary collection of James May, a British second-generation collector who traveled the world searching for rare, exotic, and beautiful insects.

There are hundreds upon hundreds of species of butterfly, moth, beetle, centipede, spider, scorpion, and more, arranged tastefully, even elegantly, in an immersive serpentine maze of framed white cases. The scale of the collection is impressive on its own, but at each case one is impressed as well by the remarkable quality and condition of its specimens, and above all, its variety. The carefully-written labels indicate that the bugs were gathered from locations as far flung as Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa, and Papua New Guinea, and several varieties were discovered by May for the very first time.

The RV park and museum were opened by in 1947 by James' son John May and is run today by his grandchildren.

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15 ridiculously adventurous things to do on your travels (and where to do them)

THE WORLD’S MOST EXTREME TRAVELERS don’t look out over an ocean or a mountain range and think to themselves, “Oh, that’s nice. Well, time to head back to my hotel and get some shuteye before another big day tomorrow.” No, they look out over the world’s wonders and think, “How can I get an adrenaline […]



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Three Approaches To Mistake Fares, And Why They’re All Valid

I have a confession to make -- my favorite part of mistakes fare is the adventure of it all, and not the actual fare.

A couple of nights ago American published a ~$450 roundtrip business class fare between Washington and Beijing. Most people probably surmised it was a mistake. But the DOT does have a prohibition on post-purchase price increases, which on the surface seems to protect consumers even in the case of mistake fares.

Is the spirit of the DOT regulation to "protect" consumers in the case of "obvious" mistake fares? Of course not. But in practice it seems to, at least as of now. Why? Because when you create laws, you have to draw a line somewhere, and that line can sometimes be very pro-consumer.

So what I enjoy the most about these mistake fares is the dialogue that comes out of them. And I think this fare has been an especially interesting one, because it was about as straightforward as we've ever seen. You went directly to the airline's website, and the fare displayed. There was no "trickery" involved.

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In Transit Blog: A Jewelry Journey Though Rome

Adventures in Art is offering a trip to Rome to explore the city’s jewelry traditions.

















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Made With Kickstarter: In Japan, a Farmhouse Becomes a Journalist’s Elegy

A film about place and memory, a farmhouse or “minka” in Japan, and the lives of the people who called it home.





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12 signs you've become Brazilian

You know that caipirinha is basically a cocktail sold to gringos who just landed on Copacabana beach.



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Can someone please help save Viviane Tran’s honeymoon?

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