Daan Zwets, Editor · Miles Mosaic

Editor · Daan Zwets, founder

I have spent over a decade chasing miles, points, and elite status across multiple programmes, and an equal amount of time figuring out how to make those balances work harder. Miles Mosaic is the tracker I wanted but couldn’t find: one calm place to see every programme, every expiry date, and every next milestone without juggling three spreadsheets.

Who I am

I’m Daan Zwets, based in Singapore, and I’ve held active status with more than twenty airline and hotel programmes over the years: KrisFlyer, Flying Blue, AAdvantage, Bonvoy, Hyatt, Avios, Asia Miles, and a long tail of subscription programmes I’ve picked up along the way. By profession I’m a Director-level technology leader; by hobby I read airline terms-and-conditions for fun and re-verify award charts every time a programme updates.

The combination matters. Loyalty programmes are essentially data products: hidden rules, periodic devaluations, opaque inventory. The same instincts that help me run an engineering organisation (ask for the data, model the decision, ignore the marketing copy) are exactly what makes the difference between a frequent traveller who gets value out of their miles and one who watches them expire.

What I fly and stay on

This section is meant to name the specific programmes and tiers I hold today, my home airport, and my rough annual flying and staying pattern: the concrete detail that turns a bio into evidence rather than an adjective, and that also discloses where my own bias sits (an author who flies mostly out of one hub will have blind spots, and saying so plainly is worth more than claiming not to have any). I have not published those specifics here yet. Until I do, the general description above, more than twenty airline and hotel programmes over the years, is the accurate current record, and this gap is an open item, not an oversight.

Why I built Miles Mosaic

I started Miles Mosaic in 2025 because the existing options weren’t honest enough. The travel-credentials trackers wanted to log into my airline accounts; the manual spreadsheets I built kept drifting out of date the moment a programme changed its rules; the editorial blogs were great reading but didn’t tell me what to do next on a Sunday afternoon when my Flying Blue tier was about to slip.

So the design brief was narrow on purpose. No passwords from any airline. You type your balance in, or you paste a screenshot; the tracker doesn’t scrape, doesn’t connect to your bank, and doesn’t ask for credentials it doesn’t need. The pricing is simple: free Explorer tier, paid Pro tier, no upsell labyrinth. The editorial copy (everything I write here) is sourced from primary documents, dated, and corrected on the record when I get something wrong.

The product I want to ship is one a sceptical reader can trust on the first visit: not because the marketing claims trust, but because the privacy posture, the disclosures, and the editorial discipline all do.

Where I draw the line

Sometimes the right answer is: let it go. A status that costs more to keep than it is worth is not worth chasing, and a product funded by subscriptions rather than card applications can say that out loud. I would rather tell a reader to walk away from a status run that no longer pays off than manufacture a reason to keep going, because nothing about how Miles Mosaic makes money depends on you chasing one more segment.

Editorial standards I hold myself to

Every guide on Miles Mosaic is built from primary sources (the airline or hotel’s own terms-and-conditions page, IATA economic reports, US DOT consumer-protection filings) and re-verified each time the programme updates its rules. Independent commentary from peer publications (The Points Guy, One Mile at a Time, View From The Wing, Skift) is used as a cross-check, not as a source. Where I’m uncertain I say so on the page; where I’m wrong I correct in place, log it on the corrections page, and date the change.

The full discipline (conflict-of-interest handling, affiliate disclosure, the corrections process) is documented in our editorial policy. The affiliate disclosure page lists what I earn from, and the corrections log is the public record of every factual change I’ve made.

What is checkable, and what is not

Checkable, independently of anything I say here: my LinkedIn profile, which predates Miles Mosaic and names the same employment history referenced above, and the site’s own corrections log, the running public record of every factual fix. Not independently checkable: my self-reported travel history and programme tiers, and my stated reasons for building this product. Treat the first kind as evidence and the second as a claim I am accountable for getting right on the record, not as proof by itself.

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