Lyn Mettler

Lyn Mettler is a longtime travel writer for US News & World Report, USA Today 10Best and The TODAY Show who created Families Fly Free, a program that teaches families her simple system to use travel rewards to fly for free. She is one of the industry's foremost experts on collecting and using travel rewards with her expertise featured in major media outlets and on podcasts, television and radio.
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101 Ways to Earn Southwest Points to Fly FREE [2025]

If you want to fly free, you’re going to need to earn Southwest points … well … LOTS of Southwest...

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Earn 170,000+ Points for up to 8 Free Hotel Nights With IHG Credit Cards

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is one of my favorite hotel chains, as they own both EVEN Hotels and Hotel Indigo,...

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171 | My 2024 Travel Rewards Savings Round-Up: $11,000 on 6 Trips

Lyn shares how her family saved $11,000+ on free flights, hotel and vacation rental stays across six trips in 2024....

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If you need to build your credit or have little to no credit (perhaps from functioning as cash only after...

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170 | Success Story: Prioritizing Travel Despite Reduced Finances With Michele Holmes

Families Fly Free member Michele Holmes shares how she went from never using miles and points to saving thousands with...

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Earn the Southwest Companion Pass: The Definitive Guide [2025]

Are you ready to fly free around the U.S. with your family, best friend, spouse or any person of your...

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Use Your Year-End Donation to Earn Points for Free Travel in 2025

Do you make an annual donation to charitable organizations at the end of the year? If they will accept a...

Choose FI Travel Rewards Tips & Tricks with Lyn Mettler (Episode 353)

As a guest on episode #353 of the Choose FI podcast with Brad Barrett, I share some of my best...

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169 | Top 5 Things You Need to Know About Travel in 2025

What are some trends I’m seeing in travel among my Families Fly Free members? In this episode, I share not...

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168 | Aren’t 2 Southwest Companion Passes Better Than 1?

Lots of people are under the mistaken assumption that because the Southwest Companion Pass is such a great deal that...

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167 | Success Story: Maximizing Travel Rewards Efficiency With Jon Gombola

In this podcast episode, travel rewards user Jon Gombola shares how learning not just how to collect miles and points...

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