<div class="block">Holiday travel can get pricey but taking advantage of rewards and points programs can drastically decrease the cost of a trip. In this segment, we explore ways to get your holiday travel cost to a more affordable rate.</div>

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Holiday Travel Using Rewards Points

The holidays are almost here and that means likely air travel and your credit card are getting a workout. Here's a look at how you can make these points and credit work for you when booking your next airline ticket? Are you trying to get away for the holidays? But then you check the airfares and they're literally sky high. Now is the time to check your mileage points and any travel credits you may have remember last year, so many flights were canceled or delayed and if you're one of those travelers, you may have a travel credit that's sitting in your account or maybe you found a cheaper fare and the airline issued you a credit for the difference. That's free money that could expire soon if you are coming to that expiration date, whether it's a travel by date or a book by date and you wanna take advantage of it or maybe you're just outside of the the window, you can call uh an agent and book a refundable ticket, then cancel the ticket and get an extension on your voucher. Vouchers cannot be used for upgrades or extras like luggage. Have you racked up points on your credit card. Most airlines, with the exception of American and British Airways will let you hold on to your balance. Some rewards programs allow you to transfer points to loyalty programs but be aware they cannot usually be transfer back. So use them if you switch cards because interest rates are too high. Make sure you can transfer your miles. Hopefully this travel season will be smooth. But if you do get issued a credit, make sure, you know, when your next flight must be booked, don't forget to check expiration dates because if you don't use it, you'll lose it. And that's certainly a waste of money. I'm Janice Lieberman and that's the real deal.