Turn Points to Passports
Trap Reports
Offers with great headlines and bad math. A 30% transfer bonus isn't a deal if four saver seats don't exist, and a buy-miles promo isn't a deal if carrier surcharges eat the savings. Trap Reports work the numbers on the promos everyone else is just repeating.
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What lands here
- Transfer bonuses with no seats behind them. The bonus percentage is real. The award space is the part nobody checks. Transfers are irreversible, so this is the expensive mistake.
- Buy-points promos where the fees erase the win. Especially on carriers with high surcharges — the miles get cheap and the ticket doesn't.
- Deals that work for one traveler and collapse at four. Two saver seats is a great weekend. It is not a family trip.
- Devaluations dressed up as enhancements. When a program announces a "more flexible" award chart, the chart usually got more expensive.
Our filter is the same one that runs everything here: can a family of four actually book this? A promo that fails it goes in this section instead of the deals briefing — because knowing what to skip saves you as much as knowing what to book.
- The Family Seating Rule That Never Showed UpDOT proposed free family seating in 2024 and never finalized it. Three traps that cost families seat fees or split seats, and what to do instead. Trap Report
- The Bonus Is Real. The Deal Isn't.Three live transfer bonuses with big headline numbers and bad math. What they are, why they fail the family filter, and what to do with those points instead. Trap Report