Brian Kelly is the founder of The Points Guy, one of the most-read resources on points, miles, and credit-card rewards, which he launched in 2010 and grew from a personal blog into a major travel-media platform. Drawing on an earlier career in finance, he has spent more than a decade showing travelers how to turn airline and hotel loyalty programs into cheaper, better trips. His debut book, How to Win at Travel, was published in 2025 and became a New York Times bestseller.
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Brian has spent his career in the weeds of airline and hotel loyalty programs, credit-card rewards, and award-flight pricing, the same ground covered in How to Win at Travel. For RealRoute he focuses on the planning side of a trip: how to find cheap flights, which points and miles are actually worth chasing, and how to use travel rewards without overpaying for them. See the rest of the team and the standards behind these guides in our editorial guidelines.
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