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Every guide, calculator, and price figure on MileMarketplacefollows the same rules: real data, sources you can check, and dates that tell you how fresh it is. Here's exactly how we work.
Two of our data sources are first-hand — we generate them ourselves and publish nowhere else. Our per-mile prices come directly from the live offers on our own marketplace, and our Miles Price Index captures those numbers into dated monthly snapshots — a genuine, original dataset with stable URLs, hand-recorded when published, that nobody else has.
For third-party facts — award-chart rates, program valuations, alliance memberships, transfer partners — we cite the primary source and link to it at the bottom of each guide, so you can verify any figure yourself rather than take our word for it.
The rules we hold every piece of content to.
We never invent statistics, case studies, or results. Every figure is either from our own live data or a cited external source. Where a number is an estimate (like award-mile bands or flight times), we label it as an estimate.
Testimonials and ratings on the site are pulled only from buyers with a completed order — never written by us. If no real reviews exist yet for something, we show nothing rather than fill the gap.
We sell miles, but our guides still say plainly when cash is the better choice — economy fares, short-haul, or thin award space. Advice you can only trust if it's willing to point away from a sale.
Every guide shows when it was published and last updated, and carries the same dates in its structured data. If a page looks stale, its date will tell you before you rely on it.
Miles pricing and program rules change constantly, so content that was right last year can quietly go wrong. We review our highest-traffic guides on a regular cadence and refresh figures, program names, and examples as programs change — and we bump the visible "last updated" date whenever we do, so the change is honest and checkable rather than silent.
When a program makes a scheduled change we already know about — an alliance move, a chart devaluation, a rename — we note it in the relevant guides ahead of time rather than waiting for it to break.
Our guides are written and maintained by the MileMarketplace editorial team — a points-obsessed group that books award travel for a living and for fun. MileMarketplace is operated by East West Global Technology LLC. Spot something wrong, out of date, or unclear? Tell us and we'll correct it and update the page's date — accuracy reports are genuinely welcome.