The Difference Between a Dream Trip and Frustrationville Often Boils Down to Knowing How to Work Free and Paid Connecting Flights

Smart questions from FCF subscribers answered.

Sweet Redeems are routes and airlines with low-cost Business and First Class mileage award availability, which we alert you to on a regular basis. What else but “sweet” would you call a mileage ticket that you can get for 115,000 miles when it’s normally 270,000?

That’s great, you say, but what happens if I live in a different city than the one in the alert? Can I use miles for a flight that connects to that city? Or will I have to pay more? Consider this report your Frequently Asked Sweet Redeem Connecting Flight Questions.