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Delta Brings Back the Boeing 747 Airplane Skin Credit Cards With New Design

When Delta launched the Boeing 747 skin credit cards two years ago, they were snapped up in an instant. However, it now looks like they are back with a new design, this time instead of a dark gray we get a brilliant white color with a photo of one of

April 25th 2 min read

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IBIS (Accor Hotels) Door Codes Could Easily Be Hacked via Faulty Check-In Terminals

IBIS, a French brand of economy hotels, member of the Accor hotel group, was just disclosed to having unsecured check-in terminals that allowed anybody to see room assignments and access door codes. Pentagrid, which "performs technically solid security assessments of IT systems for enterprises," disclosed their findings from

April 2nd 3 min read

Airlines

Ten Years Later: MH370 - A Wound in the Fabric of Aviation

A decade has cast a long shadow since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished on March 8th, 2014. The Boeing 777, carrying 239 souls on a routine journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, inexplicably disappeared from radar screens, leaving behind a gaping wound in the hearts of families and an indelible

March 8th 3 min read

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United Airlines Flight UA35 Loses Tire on Takeoff, Diverts to LAX After Landing Gear Incident

A United Airlines Boeing 777-200 bound for Osaka, Japan, suffered a dramatic incident shortly after takeoff from San Francisco International Airport (SFO) this afternoon. EXCLUSIVE: Here's the moment that United flight #UA35 lost a wheel during takeoff, captured by CaliPlanes (https://t.co/QPzmrN2j2T) ✈️ https://t.co/JSTzbHuGD2

March 7th 1 min read

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Even the FAA Has to Prepare for the Super Bowl

With Super Bowl LVIII right around the corner with the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs, all fans are on deck and already paying thousands of dollars for commercial flights to the big game. Another mostly unknown traveler to the Super Bowl will be private pilots, with the outrageous

January 29th 4 min read

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Private Pilot Appears to Have Intentionally Crashed an Airplane in Texas

In quite the chilling event a private pilot flying out of Addison airport in a Cessna 172 near Dallas, Texas appears to have flown the airplane to a remote part of the city near Caddo National Grassland and intentionally crashed, killing himself. From obtained ATC recordings we hear the pilot

January 25th 3 min read

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MGM/Marriott Partnership Perks Revealed

Last year MGM ended their partnership with Hyatt and announced they would be partnering with Marriott for elite perks and reciprocal agreements sometime in 2024. At the time there were no specifics on what the program would look like or what reciprocal agreements would look like. However, MGM and Marriott

January 17th 2 min read

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Tokyo Haneda Airport Closed After JAL A350 Lands on Japanese Coast Guard Dash-8

Only two days into the new year and it's not starting off great for Japan. Day one a massive 7.6 earth quake rocked the west coast of Japan killing dozens and collapsing buildings, it is the largest and most deadly earthquake since 2015 which registered a 7.

January 2nd 2 min read

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Boeing 737 MAX Jets Has Loose Bolts Says FAA

According to Boeing the 737 MAX jets may have loose bolts in exactly the place you don't want them. The airplane maker is urging all operators of the 737 MAX to inspect the rudder for possible loose bolts in the Rudder Actuator. This comes after an international operator

December 29th 2 min read

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World's Stupidest Pilot Sentenced to 6 Months For Intentionally Crashing Airplane

In 2021 YouTuber Trevor Jacob published a video entitled "I Crashed My Plane" in which it was implied that while flying his single engine prop plane had engine issues and he had to eject himself from the airplane and parachute to safety. It was a wild video that

December 5th 4 min read

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Alaska Airlines Buys Hawaiian Airlines For $1.9 Billion - Will Passengers Stay Loyal?

In possibly the most out of nowhere announcement, Alaska Airlines has announced on Sunday night that they will acquire Hawaiian Airlines for $1.9 Billion in cash. With Alaska's commitment to retaining the brand through the merger, will it be enough to keep the fierce loyalty of Hawaiian

December 4th 3 min read

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Munich Airport Closed Due To Snow

The second biggest airport in Germany has shutdown due to snow. A large weather system is moving across Switzerland, Germany, and Austria bringing heavy snow falls and poor weather to the area. Munich experienced so much snow that the airport said it couldn't keep up with the snow

December 2nd 3 min read

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Capping Flights to Amsterdam Schiphol: A Misguided Attempt to Solve a Complex Problem

In a misguided attempt to address operational issues and noise concerns, lawmakers in the Netherlands have proposed capping the number of flights at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. This decision, if implemented, would have severe consequences for the airport, airlines, and the Dutch economy as a whole. While I'm thankful

November 27th 4 min read

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CLEAR Increases Family Pricing to $100 Per Family Member

Hot off of my internal debate on whether I would renew my CLEAR Plus membership that is coming up, my decision has all but been made up as they have now increased the cost per family member to $100, which is an increase of $30 over their previous offer. For

November 3rd 2 min read

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JetBlue Airplane Tips Over at JFK - Why That Happens?

For as technologically advanced as modern airliners are, most have one a major flaw. If loaded or unloaded incorrectly they can tip on to their tail. Almost every airliner that I know of has a tricycle design for their landing gear, meaning they have one gear at the nose and

October 25th 4 min read

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Off Duty Alaska Airlines Pilot Tries To Shutdown Engines of a Horizon Air E175 From The Jumpseat

UPDATE: At the pilot's court appearance today it seems like he took mushrooms before boarding the flight and had a psychedelic episode. While his actions are inexcusable it makes more sense that a intentional act of violence. By now it is being widely reported that a jumpseating pilot

October 24th 5 min read

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United Changes Boarding Process - Window to Aisle

Well file this in the didn't expect to see it actually happen box, United is changing up their boarding process and using a method I thought airlines would never use. Instead of boarding from back to front, United has announced for their man boarding process they will now

October 13th 3 min read

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WATCH: FedEx 757 Lands Without Landing Gear in Tennessee

If you haven't caught it by now FedEx had quite the incident on October 4th. A 757 freighter scheduled from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Memphis, Tennessee had a hydraulic problem after takeoff, the crew elected to return to the airport however their landing gear could not deploy. This resulted

October 6th 4 min read

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SAS To Leave Star Alliance and Join SkyTeam

This was not quite the news that I was expecting, since 2022 SAS has been in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then they've being trying to restructure and climb out of it while maintaining their partnerships in tact. Instead today SAS has announce

October 3rd 3 min read

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Alaska Airlines Offers Juicy Status Match To Angry Delta SkyMiles Medallions

Alaska Airlines hasn't waited long to jump on the Delta-hating bandwagon. In a move to win over Delta Medallion flyers and try to steal business away from Delta, Alaska is offering exclusive incentives and extended status matches for Medallion flyers. While Alaska Airlines usually offers status match only

September 26th 4 min read

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The $78 Newark Airport Burger

By now you've probably seen the Twitter (now called X) tweet by New York Times Op-Ed columnist David Brooks claiming that he spent $78 on what looks to be a hamburger that was picked apart and a drink. This sent the entire aviation community into rage about airport

September 25th 3 min read

Airlines

Delta Forced To Relaunch Honolulu and Portland to Haneda or Lose Their Slots

If you haven't been watching the epic tale of the airlines versus Haneda Airport, it is finally reaching its peak. Since the pandemic, airlines have been given "slot wavers" due to depressed demand and slow recovery in the Asian markets for travel and tourism. However Haneda

September 5th 6 min read

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United Debuts New First Class Seat - And I Don’t Like It

United just showed off their "new" first class seat, it is modeled on a seat they already retrofitted in their A319's earlier this year. Unfortunately I am not a fan of these new seats, but there are some redeeming perks. There seems to be a growing

July 13th 3 min read

Flight Reviews

Flight Review: United (Boeing 757) First Class From Denver to Los Angles

One thing that I’ve always liked about earning miles and points is that I feel much better about doing spontaneous trips. My running miles and points balances is like a separate bank for storing my savings until I’m ready to use it. This last weekend I decided that

November 6th 8 min read

Flight Reviews

Flight Review: Delta (Boeing 757) First Class From Seattle to New York (Red-Eye Flight)

Delta has been slowly taking over Seattle as another major hub for the airline. Their wide variety of flights offer a good selection to the US and Asia. While I didn’t take Delta international on this flight they’ve setup Seattle as their Asia hub with many international flights

October 20th 6 min read

Flight Reviews

Flight Review: United (Airbus A319) Economy Plus From San Francisco to Seattle

With everything going on with United in the news lately I felt like it was time to revisit the airline as I haven’t flown them in over 5 years, plus the tickets I wanted were pretty cheap. Being northwest-based my primary airline of choice has been Alaska, most of

September 20th 4 min read

Flight Reviews

Flight Review: Alaska Airlines (Boeing 737-800) Premium Class From Seattle to Palm Springs

Alaska Airlines recently joined the more premium economy arena with their own offering, Premium Class. Upgrade pricing ranges from $15 on up, the seats offer you 4 extra inches of leg room, a snack box, and free alcoholic drinks. Booking It all started with booking experience, while my primary airline

September 12th 3 min read

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Flight Review: Delta Air Lines (Boeing 717) Comfort+ From Denver to Seattle

Delta has increasingly become by airline of choice when traveling domestically throughout the United States. Being located in the Seattle-area Delta has been in a ruthless competition with Alaska Airlines for routes out of this great Northwest city. For the consumer this means pricing competitions that push down the prices

September 4th 3 min read

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Flight Review: Delta Air Lines (Embraer 175) Comfort+ From Seattle to Denver

Delta has been taking over the Pacific Northwest and encroaching in on Alaska Airline’s territory. As such I’ve been finding myself flying Delta about as equally as I’ve been flying Alaska Airlines. For most people it’s about getting your money’s worth out of the time

August 31st 2 min read

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Surprise, Surprise -- American Airlines Increases Baggage Fees

It’s not like anybody didn’t see this coming, in the wake of every other US carrier raising their baggage fees, American Airlines joined the increased revenue train and pumped up their fees by $5. I can’t say nobody saw this coming as it would make them the

September 21st 2 min read

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Hawaiian Airlines To Launch Nonstop Service From Honolulu to Boston

Hawaiian Airlines has announced that it is expanding to another east coast destination, Boston. This will mark the longest nonstop flight for the company at 5095 nautical miles direct. The flight will operate as a red-eye to Boston and a morning flight getting in early afternoon to Honolulu. The flight

September 19th 2 min read

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American Airlines Adds Streaming Live TV to Domestic Flights

Domestic flights aren’t very exciting these days. Most in-flight food options are expensive and not very good plus the entertainment is few and far between. Most carriers have changed to the model of bring-your-own-device allowing you to stream movies or prerecorded TV shows. Legacy carrier do have a few

September 7th 1 min read

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Air Canada and WestJet Join the Party By Increasing Baggage Fees

Some say it’s collusion, some say it’s just impeccable timing. Hot on the heels of United and JetBlue raising their baggage fees, the two major Canadian carriers Air Canada and WestJet announce their own baggage fee increases. Unlike United who pumped up bag fees without any notice or

September 3rd 1 min read

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United Increasing Baggage Fees Effective September 1st

United is the next one up to the podium to raise up their baggage fees. The airline following close in the heels of JetBlue who just raised up some of their key fees. Unlike JetBlue who raised fees on not only checked baggage and various other fees, United focuses primarily

September 3rd 1 min read

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JetBlue Increasing Fees on Baggage, Pets, and Ticket Changes

Effective today JetBlue is increasing fees across the board for most of their extra services, such as checked baggage, pets, and ticket change/cancellations. Historically JetBlue has been very generous with allowances and fees in stark contrast to most legacy carriers. Most fees are a modest jump of $5 which

September 3rd 1 min read

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9-1-1 Call From Alaska Airlines Baggage Handler Stuck In Cargo Hold

Back in 2015 there was an Alaska Airlines plane that had a ramp worker stuck in the cargo hold under the aircraft. The worker had been napping in the aircraft and woke up sometime when the aircraft was about to take off bound for Los Angles. The story ends up

November 16th 2 min read

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Boeing Reveals Cockpit Design For New 777X

Boeing has revealed the cockpit layout and design for the brand new wide-body aircraft 777X. The announcement was made during the Dubai Airshow just as it secured a massive order from Dubai-native Emirates Airlines who put in a massive order for the 787 aircraft. Looking over the new design of

November 14th 1 min read

Credit Cards

Chase's Hyatt Credit Card Now Open For Referrals, Offering 10,000 Points Per Referral

Not every credit card allows you to refer your friends and get something for doing it. Today we can add another card to the list on Chase’s front for referrals. This generous new referral opportunity can net you up to 50,000 points for referring just five friends to

November 10th 2 min read

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Hawaiian Airlines Engine Catches Fire After Landing In Seattle

A Hawaiian Airlines A330 was being ferried from Everett, Washington to SeaTac, Washington and after landing the engine appears to catch fire. Thankfully there was no-one on board the aircraft at the time, just the crew. There are two videos offering unique angles of the incident that happened Tuesday night.

November 8th 2 min read

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Apple Pay Person-To-Person Payments Now Live In Beta

At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) the experience maker announced that person-to-person Apple Pay payments would become a thing. Since then details have been vague and the service has yet to officially launch. With today’s public beta iOS 10.3 release you can now start to test payments

November 8th 2 min read

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KLM/Air France Announce The Most Confusing Flying Blue Program Changes

The joint venture between KLM and Air France, Flying Blue, published changes to their award program going live on April 1st, 2018 (April fools to us?) that will fundamentally change how the program is run. Some of the major highlights is their change to revenue based earning, all seats being

November 7th 3 min read

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Finnair Starts Weighing Passengers Before Boarding

Finnair has started to weigh passengers as they board their flights. This is something unheard of and hasn’t happened since the early parts of commercial aviation. The only reason you are really weighed in the current day is for very small commercial prop planes at small airports. Finnair runs

November 4th 2 min read

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USPS Sends Out Memo Banning Gift Card Use For Money Orders

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has long had a rule on the books stating that you cannot use gift cards to purchase money orders. This policy obviously is in place to prevent fraud and those who have less than honest intentions. Most people who buy gift cards to satisfy

November 2nd 2 min read

Hotels

SPG To End Uber Partnership On December 17th

In a not so shocking move SPG has announced today that they will be ending their partnership with Uber which gave 1 Starpoint per $2 spent at Uber. It can only be assumed that this comes as a result of Uber launching their own credit card which will debut November

October 26th 2 min read

Credit Cards

Uber Announces The Uber Visa Credit Card

Uber is at it again trying to reach their footprint even larger with their brand new credit card with some actually impressive categories. This isn’t a rewards card but rather a cashback card so you won’t be bound to just earning Uber credits. While I’m not a

October 25th 3 min read

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What Is The Largest Airline By Number Of Passengers In Each State?

What’s the largest airline operating in each state? the answer may not be as clear when you take a look at how many passengers the airlines usually move in and out of the state. I was actually quite surprised by some of the numbers and the biggest carriers are.

October 24th 2 min read

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Mastercard No Longer Requiring Signatures After April 2018

The credit card industry has been pretty slow to adopt changes and new technologies. The evolution of credit and debit card payments has seen the necessity for signatures be all but eliminated. For me I usually just scribble my name whenever I’m required to sign for a purchase as

October 21st 1 min read

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Airbus Buys Majority Stake In Bombardier CSeries Jets

Boeing and Bombardier have been in an intense battle over the CSeries line of jets. The US airplane maker has successfully complained to the US trade authorities and gotten a 300% tariff on any CSeries jet being bought by the US. Now Airbus has joined the battle by buying a

October 16th 1 min read

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Watch United Bid A Fond Farewell To The Boeing 747

For almost 50 years the Boeing 747 has been an iconic bid in the sky with its recognizable hump it’s probably the most identified aircraft. Since its rollout in 1969 it’s caused a stir in the aviation community being the only double-decker modern airliner, of course except for

October 15th 2 min read

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United Club Passes From The MileagePlus Explorer Card Will Now Arrive Digitally

A Reddit user has submitted an email that just showed up in their inbox from United stating that the one-time use passes that you get from being a United MileagePlus Explorer card holder will now be delivered electronically. Before this new development MileagePlus Explorer card holders would receive their passes

October 14th 2 min read

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Priority Pass Adds New Lounge At Pittsburgh International Airport

Another lounge is joining the Priority Pass network of lounges that you can visit with just one membership. The Club at PIT just opened up in the C concourse across from gate C52 and is offering free admittance for Priority Pass members or $40 per visit if you’re not

October 13th 1 min read

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Delta Now Automatically Checks You In For Your Flight

Delta has rolled out an update to its Delta mobile applications that do away with checking in for your flight 24 hours before takeoff. Instead your boarding pass will now show up automatically 24 hours before your flight and you’ll just have to confirm that you are not bringing

October 13th 2 min read

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Southwest Airlines Officially Announces They're Starting Flights To Hawaii

After a long string of rumors and leaks that Southwest Airlines would start routes to Hawaii it’s finally official. The airline has said that they’re going to start selling tickets to Hawaii sometime in 2018 and will offer the flights soon. While the airline is saying that they’

October 11th 1 min read

Credit Cards

Bonus Increase: Chase United Club Card 50,000 Bonus Miles After You Spend $3,000

United Airlines has increased the bonus offer for their top of the line credit card, the United Club Card. This premium credit card from Chase features a membership to United Club, two free checked bags, and Premier Access. For the frequent United traveler this would be the perfect card in

October 10th 2 min read

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American Express Offering 30% Bonus For Transferring Membership Rewards to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club Miles

American Express is now offering a bonus for transferring your American Express Membership Rewards to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club Miles. This is an increase to their normal offering of a 1-to-1 transfer from Membership Rewards to Flying Club miles. This deal is great for people looking to take an upcoming

October 10th 1 min read

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What Are Miles & Points Worth? October 2017 Valuations

Not all miles and points are alike, every loyalty system values their currency differently. The way that we value miles and points is a combination of our estimated cash value and overall value of the program. The actual cash value of your miles and points will change depending on when

October 9th 1 min read

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Debris From The Air France Flight 66 - An A380 That Had Its Engine Blow Up - Has Been Found In Greenland

Parts of the Air France A380 that had it’s right outboard engine blow up enroute over the Atlantic Ocean has been found in the snow of Greenland. Flight 66 (seems ominous), was enroute from Paris (CDG) to Los Angeles (LAX) and was somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean when the

October 6th 2 min read

Credit Cards

Bank Of America Confirmed "2/3/4 Rule" for New Credit Cards

Most of us are aware of the highly restrictive 5/24 rule that Chase imposes on select credit cards, basically meaning you cannot have 5 or more new credit cards within a rolling 24 month period. This makes it difficult for those of us in the credit card game and

October 5th 2 min read

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How To Time Your Southwest Companion Pass Just Right

Southwest has been regularly increasing the bonus offer on their Chase co-branded credit cards. With the Southwest Rapid Rewards program it’s one of the last that still lets you earn premium features with just credit card spend. Its long been known that if you pick up two of the

October 3rd 2 min read

Credit Cards

Last Chance To Product Change Citi Hilton Credit Cards?

A couple of months ago we learned that American Express will become the exclusive card issuer for the Hilton credit cards. Before this announcement both American Express and Citi were issuers for the Hilton credit cards but now that Citi has been dropped it leaves the question of what’s

October 2nd 2 min read

News

Air France A380 Engine Explodes Over The Atlantic

Early this morning an A380 crossing the Atlantic had an uncontained engine failure. The flight was midway across the ocean when the outboard engine on the right side of the aircraft had a failure, the entire casing came off and the engine blades completely separated from the aircraft. We’ve

September 30th 2 min read

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American Express Further Restricts Access To Centurion Lounge

By far one of the best things about the American Express Platinum cards is the access it gives you to Centurion Lounge. I will always recommend a Centurion Lounge over any other domestic air lounge. They’ve become so popular with card holders that recently American Express has been restricting

September 29th 2 min read

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Marriott Imposes 2000 Points-Per-Year Limit On #MRpoints

I just received a very interesting from Marriott that seems to indicate they are putting massive restrictions on their Twitter campaign that was supposed to offer around 52,000 points per year if you took advantage of the entire program. This amount of points could equal up to a night

September 28th 1 min read

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Woman Forcefully Removed From Southwest Flight For Refusing To Deplane

A woman on a Southwest flight from Baltimore (BWI) to Los Angeles (LAX) yesterday was dragged from her flight after refusing to get off the plane. She was originally asked to deplane from her flight after she raised concerns to a flight attendant that she had a life-threatening allergy to

September 27th 2 min read

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Ryanair Cancels 18,000 More Flights Affecting More Than 400,000 Passengers

In wake of Ryanair cancelling 40 to 50 flights daily for the next six weeks they’ve announced a more long-term outlook for the airline and announce that they’re going to be canceling an additional 18,000 flights over the next six months. The airline firmly denies that it

September 27th 2 min read

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AirBNB Introduces Restaurant Reservations

AirBNB is breaking into the restaurant business with reservations to compete with the other big guys. A lot of us are already AirBNB users and the ability to make reservations just adds to the usability of the service. This is yet another way to attract more users to the platform,

September 25th 1 min read

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American Express Platinum & Centurion Members Now Have Access To Lufthansa Lounges In Munich

American Express seems to be expanding their lounge presence worldwide by adding their first ever non-Centurion lounge. This lounge, which you don’t need Priority Pass for but instead your American Express Platinum or Centurion card gives you access to Lufthansa’s lounges in Munich, Germany. While most premium credit

September 23rd 1 min read

Credit Cards

Metal American Express Business Platinum Now Available!

All premium cards now-a-days are going to varying degree of metal for the car. The Chase Sapphire Reserve was the premium card to kick it off with a layered metal finish that makes the card feel very premium. Earlier this year American Express began offering the Personal Platinum in metal

September 21st 2 min read

News

First Qantas 787 Rolls Out Of The Factory -- Will Fly World's Longest Route

The first Qantas 787 has rolled out of the factory, this 787-9 will operate the world’s longest route from London (LHR) to Perth (PER). This more than 9,000-mile long route will take a whopping 17 hours and 30 minutes to fly on an average day. Just the first

September 21st 2 min read

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Post Wells Fargo Fake Accounts Scandal -- How is Signing Up For A Wells Fargo Account?

Wells Fargo is desperate for new accounts and customers in the wake of them uncovering millions of fake or fraudulently signed up for accounts. In some ways this works out great for the consumer as Wells Fargo is pretty much bribing people, by way of bonuses, into being customers. While

September 21st 4 min read

News

Rumor -- Southwest Airlines To Start Flying To Hawaii

The rumor mill has been flying with reports that Southwest Airlines will announce Hawaiian routes very shortly. The low-cost carrier has been adventuring into new markets including, Havana, Cuba which has reopened back up to US air travel. It wouldn’t be a far fetch for Southwest to use its

September 20th 2 min read

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Changes Incoming To Citi Prestige -- Survey Sent Out About New Features

Citi has sent out a survey to all its Prestige card holders to get their thoughts on new changes that we might see coming to their premium card. The Citi Prestige card has long been a double edged card to own, it offers great benefits like 4th night free at

September 19th 2 min read

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Amazon Now Lets You Use Hilton Honors Points For Purchases

Amazon seems to be partnering with everyone for redemptions on products. In the latest move Hilton has announce you can start to use your HHonors points for redemptions on Amazon. The partnership today adds a bit more value to your HHonors points if you’re not interested in redeeming them

September 19th 2 min read

Credit Cards

Bank of America's New Premium Rewards Credit Card is Now Live

We’ve been seeing small leaks from Bank of America that they’re going to try to get into the premium card market with their own rewards card. Before this new Premium Rewards credit card we had the Cash and Travel Rewards credit cards which didn’t offer any premium

September 18th 2 min read

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United Shuts Down MileagePlus Gift Registry

Late tonight United shutdown its MileagePlus Gift Registry with some conflicting information on if it will be coming back. The official website says that the registry has been discontinued permanently while United’s main site says that it’s down for maintenance. If the registry website is to be believed

September 17th 1 min read

News

Top 10 Largest Airports By Passenger Numbers [2017 Edition]

In the aviation world there are some incredibly large airports out there, most of these airports subscribe to the hub and spoke model in which massive amounts of people travel to a regional hub then take smaller flights to their final destination. This model has helped fuel some of the

September 16th 4 min read

News

Priority Pass Adds 15 New Lounges & Denver Food Credit

Most premium travel credit cards comes with a membership to Priority Pass which is a global service offering access to airport lounges all around the world. Worldwide this can be perfect for getting away from the hustle and bustle of busy airports. In the United States the lounges that Priority

September 15th 1 min read

News

What To Do After A Massive Personal Information Databreach

Just days ago Equifax announced a massive data breach of personal information. If you don’t know what Equifax is, it’s a consumer credit reporting agency, they maintain information on over 800 million consumers and more than 88 million businesses worldwide. This company controls massive amounts of personal information

September 11th 3 min read

News

What Important Papers Should You Take With You During An Evacuation?

In the wake of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma where mass evacuations are recommended to escape the deadly powers of the hurricanes one question comes to mind. What important paperwork should you take with you during an evacuation to keep safe? The one thing that we might not think about

September 8th 2 min read

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Delta Flight Dodges Hurricane Irma And Makes Pit Stop In San Juan

Delta is really fighting for their amazing on-time record, when Hurricane Irma was bearing down on San Juan a Delta flight braved the storm and managed to land and take off all under an hour. Hurricane Irma was an amazingly powerful storm that ripped all through the Caribbean destroying islands

September 7th 1 min read

Credit Cards

American Express Launches New No Annual Fee Blue Delta SkyMiles Credit Card

Hot on the heels of Chase’s new United TravelBank card American Express has announced their own no annual fee version of their Delta SkyMiles credit card. The Bule Delta SkyMiles credit card seems like a much better offering than the new United card due to the fact that it

September 6th 1 min read

Credit Cards

Chase Launches New No Annual Fee United Travelbank Card

We’ve been hearing rumors of a new United credit card from Chase in the works and now it’s finally here. Today Chase and United announced the brand new United Travelbank Card, this no annual fee card gives you 2% cash back on United purchases and 1.5% cash

September 5th 2 min read

News

PayPal Announces New And Improved Business Debit Mastercard

PayPal has started sending out mailers to PayPal Business Debit card holders that a new and improved card is on the way. Highlights to this new card include Masterpass technology from Mastercard, chip card, and a new design. The business debit card is great for quick access to PayPal money

September 4th 1 min read

Credit Cards

Hilton Surpass 100,000 Points + Free Night Is Back - Expires October 4

If Hilton is your choice of hotels an increased signup offer is now out for a limited time. Offers like these don’t come around too often, and this is the second time ever that they’ve offered something like this. Hilton’s American Express Surpass credit card is currently

September 1st 2 min read

Hotels

Starwood Sends Out New Round of Targeted Offers, Check To See What You Get

Starwood is sending out a new round of targeted offers, these range from boosted Starpoints to earning Elite Nights quicker. These targeted offers are linked to your Starwood account number and will depend upon what offer is linked to your account. My personal Starwood account got targeted for 7,500

August 31st 2 min read

News

Unruly Hawaiian Airlines Passenger Must Pay $98,000 Rules Judge

In December of 2016 a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Honolulu, Hawaii to New York’s JFK airport turned around after a passenger began making threats to his girlfriend and staff on the long haul flight. The man threatened to cut his girlfriend’s neck with a knife and the plane

August 31st 1 min read

News

Paypal Releases New 2% Cashback Mastercard

The online payment giant has announced a brand new credit card, the 2% cashback Mastercard is the companies first big endeavor in credit card rewards. This card was available for a short time on limited release but today marks its public debut for anyone to apply for this card. As

August 30th 1 min read

News

Southwest Airlines Takes Delivery of First Boeing 737 MAX

It’s always exciting when an airline takes delivery of it’s very first new aircraft line, today Southwest took ownership of their first first Boeing 737 MAX, with an additional 198 on order Southwest is refreshing their entire fleet with a new interior and planes to go along with

August 30th 1 min read

News

Chase Updates Terms To Only Allow One Sapphire Family Card

Chase has been known as one of the most restrictive credit card issuers with their “5/24 rule” which states you can only get their cards if you have not opened five new accounts in the last 24 months. Chase’s Sapphire family of cards are one of the most

August 30th 1 min read

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