2025-03-21
31 分钟This is in conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shamita Basu.
Today the points guys secrets to easier, cheaper travel.
When Brian Kelly was young, his dad had to travel a lot for work.
This was in the 90s.
Booking travel online was a pretty new thing.
But from an early age, Brian had a knack for it.
That was one of my first jobs.
He would pay me to book his flights and he came to me one day and said, well,
if you can figure out how to use these frequent flyer miles, we can go on a trip.
So when I was 12, I planned our first family trip using all points for free to the Caribbean.
It became a yearly tradition.
Fast forward to after college.
Brian got an HR job at Morgan Stanley
that involved a lot of travel and he would use his points and miles to book first class tickets all over the world.
He started helping friends and co workers do the same.
In 2010, he launched his website, the Points Guy as a side hustle,
offering tips and advice on ways to take full advantage of credit card points and airline miles.
Today that little side hustle has grown into a multi million dollar business used by tens of millions of people.
Points Guy readers have used his advice to take trips worth tens of thousands of dollars to places like Sydney,