Average Guy Travels

 Air Europa and the Business Class experience..... So, Ive done a great deal of reading, listening and learning in order to bring you best practices for traveling to exotic places on an "Average Guys" budget.  This year I put into practice the lessons I have been taught and they worked! They worked very well..... I was taught the cheapest times to book business class fares are 12 months out, when they are released or 30 days out when they want to fill the seats (Im not sure my travel anxiety would allow me to book 30 days out) . This trip was booked 12 months out.  I found the fare on one of my daily checks of the rewards sites, this time it was ; Points Yeah The fare was for a one way business class ticket on Air Europa from JFK to Madrid 43,000 miles. I was sold. This fare was being sold by Air France on its partner airline.  I had never heard of Air Europa so I did my research and found that they were Spains number 2 airline by size, they flew a daily direct fligh...

 Hey Everybody! Just back from a fantastic 17 day trip to Europe, so over the next few weeks we will break down the trip and the lessons learned! I employed all of the strategies we discussed in previous articles on this trip! Lets start from the beginning!  You have all heard me say this before, if you want to travel cheap....let the vacation choose you. While searching my normal travel reward sites, I found a business class fare from JFK to Madrid for 42,000 miles one way. The fare was on Air Europa (Spains #2 Airline in size).  This meant that for 84,000 miles , my wife and I were flying business class to Madrid from NY. Ive never been to Madrid so BAM! my vacation just found me.......I planned a route from Madrid to Barcelona and then from Barcelona to Bordeaux, France.....I would have been willing to return to NY from any of those locations. But, by chance...I found the same fare from Madrid back to JFK in business class. I was able to book two people rountrip busine...