😮 This helped me book business class

Good morning, and happy November! It’s been a very exciting week here at Daily Drop……. 👀

If you tuned in at all this week, then you know the secret is out… and it’s in the form of our new tool—Daily Drop Pro.

Let’s get to chatting about that and all the other cool happenings from this week 👇

✅ Hyatt is sending out some more great offers. Check your accounts!

✅ Virgin Atlantic has moved to dynamic award pricing, but it’s not all bad…

✅ Our latest YouTube video features a comprehensive walkthrough of the brand-new Daily Drop Pro!

✅ Here’s an update on the crazy SAS Million Mile challenge.

🏆 Favorite pick of the week: Daily Drop Pro Launch

The excitement has been high at the “virtual” DD headquarters this week, and that’s because we launched our incredible travel tool—Daily Drop Pro!

Daily Drop Pro was created to be your one-stop shop to:

1. Easily search for flights and hotels (whether with points or cash!)

2. Receive cheap airfare deal alerts

3. Organize your credit cards and points in a virtual wallet

4. And engage with a like-minded community in our Pro Lounge

For starters, this newsletter section is waaaay too short to give you an in-depth breakdown. If you want to learn how to use all of DD Pro’s features, I’d highly recommend our YouTube video that does just that.

But as someone who considers themselves a pro at this travel stuff, I still find the travel planning process to be cumbersome, exhausting, and overwhelming at times…

What’s wild is that the very first day I played around with DD Pro before it was even live to the public, I decided to try and find an award flight for an actual trip I was hoping to take early next year…

I had been eyeing a business class flight from Vancouver to Frankfurt for 70,000 Aeroplan miles, but when I put in that exact route in the DD Pro search, it presented me with this 👇

The second option showed me I could get that same Lufthansa business class seat for just 63,000 Avianca LifeMiles 😮

Needless to say, I booked that flight immediately and saved myself 7,000 precious miles in the process.

Additionally, DD Pro also has a “Compare with Cash” option which promptly showed me I’d have to fork over $6,269 if I wasn’t using miles. Gulp.

That brings my valuation to a whopping 10 cents per point which is CRAZY good.

Now if that isn’t a real-world example of how great DD Pro is, then I don’t know what is!

And there is SO much more to this tool (again, check out our YouTube vid), and we are so proud of it 🥹

We hope it’ll be a game-changer for your future travel planning, but remember, the special launch price of $99 for life ends at midnight on November 4th!!

🏃🏻‍♀️ Runner-Ups

🥇Is the 5/24 rule dead?

Ah, the 5/24 rule—an unwritten rule that belongs to this bank and has fueled travel lore for years.

To be less dramatic about it, this “rule” says that the bank in question won’t allow you to apply for a new credit card if you’ve signed up for five or more cards in the previous 24 months.

Get it? 5… 24…

But what’s interesting, is that both myself and Mike may have accidentally broken this rule 👀

I was approved for TWO cards (our most popular one and this hotel card) while sitting at 5/24 and 6/24, respectively.

WILD.

I took a gamble, and it worked.

Mike was also approved for this business card while sitting at his very own 5/24 limit.

So, should that stop you from applying for a new card if you reeeeally want it and you’re “over” the limit?

You can draw your own conclusions from this, but… Is the 5/24 rule dead?! Or… what the heck?!

Mike provides a bit more of an explanation in our original newsletter section, so if this interests you, I’d check it out 😎

🥈 Get your mileage runs in before the end of the year

It’s that time of year again when all the travel nerds who want elite status take a look at the drawing board and see if we need to book any flights before the end of the year.

But these flights often don’t have an actual trip attached to them… If that’s the case, it’s properly called a “mileage run.”

To be clear, a mileage run is when you book a flight that you really don’t need to take otherwise…

It’s more about completing the flight, getting the miles, or collecting whatever else is needed to help you reach elite status before everything resets back to zero.

If you’re close to reaching a certain elite status, this might be a last-ditch effort to get it.

After all, elite status usually comes with some nice perks for the following year—things like priority boarding, extra checked bags, maybe even lounge access 😏

But obviously booking an extra flight costs money, so you also have to evaluate if the cash cost to do this will be worth the elite status you’ll hold for the following year.

If you want more context and some specific examples of a mileage run, check that out here!

📣 Quick Callouts

• ❌ Expired: Up to 100% transfer bonus to British Airways (Bilt Rent Day)

• ❌ Expired: JetBlue’s “Win at Winter” flash sale

• ✈️ Sweet: Award Drop: Fly to Spain in style

• 🌎 Travel trivia: Which country ranked the safest for travelers in 2025?

• 😎 Good to know: You can now transfer ThankYou Points to Preferred Hotels & Resorts

I have nothing left to say but… Have a great rest of your weekend!!

See you next time ☺️

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