It's hard to imagine that a simple error could cost thousands of points or miles, but that's exactly what happened to me while booking a flight to Cancun for my friends and me.
I've always been diligent about managing my rewards since I've heard horror stories of people losing large chunks of their balances through one mistake or another. But nobody's perfect: I put too much trust in my account to auto-update after a points transfer, and it ended up costing me 15,000 miles.
Here's what happened and how you can avoid making the same mistake.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on The Points Guy Articles.
