Amateur Traveler episode 95. Today the Amateur Traveler goes to Andalusha in southern Spain.

I got my bags packed on a roll

heading out there and I'm ready to go

looking real good in my passport photo

15 hour flight oh I don't think I'll ever be coming home

You know I love it

Got to see one more cathedral I got to sit in one more cafe. I know that I should be heading home

but maybe not maybe not today.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

The first news story I have for you today is some bad news about frequent flyer miles.

As we've talked about previously on this show, the airlines have a large, large number of

unclaimed frequent flyer miles and it's increasingly more difficult

to use those miles. Well, they are changing their programs and they're changing them not for

the better. I'll put a link in the show notes at amateur traveler

dot com to an article called Frequent Flyer Rules Changes rarely benefit

travelers that comes from smarter travels.com. One of the pieces of information that

comes from this article is,

After years of relative stability, Delta cut the period of time during which

member accounts must be active from the industry standard three years to two.

U.S. Airways amended its policy

effective January 31st of this year, reducing expiration policy from three years

to 18 months. United announced in January that beginning next year, Mileage Plus members also have

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