Chanelle is a personal finance writer at NerdWallet covering credit cards. When she isn't optimizing her rewards, she can be found hiking around Lake Tahoe or seeing the latest movies at the theater. She previously worked at Fortune, Forbes and the Reno Gazette-Journal.
If you’d been considering applying for the United℠ Explorer Card, Chase has made the upfront incentive a little less appealing. The card still offers the following sign-up bonus: 40,000 bonus miles…
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When people hear that I write about credit cards for a living, the first question they usually ask is, “What’s the best card out there on the market right now?”…
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Spirit Airlines serves about 60 cities in the U.S., Central and South America and the Caribbean. It’s known for ultra-low base fares and a la carte fees for just about everything. The…
This page is being updated Frontier Airlines has refreshed its frequent-flyer program and the offerings on its co-branded credit cards, so this article is out of date. We are working…
When searching online for hotel rooms, especially through deal sites, travelers can easily be taken in by the deceptively low advertised rates without realizing that there’s more to the cost…
