Originally Posted by bestfaceforward

Does anyone know the best way to take advantage of the fact that we will be taking lots of different flights (on different airlines though) and staying in hotels, etc. in 2016? This really isn't typical for us so I'm not sure how to collect any perks. We will be flying from Newark to New Zealand then Fiji then Australia then Bali and up thru SEA. Is there any way to take advantage and get points or privileges, upgrades, etc? We already have a Capital One Venture but it doesn't seem to do much for us. Maybe I'm not using it right? The points take so long to add up even though we charge and pay off all our monthly expenses on it each month.