Delta Air Lines is reportedly drawing up plans to abandon its flagship lie-flat Business Class seat, which was to be featured on new Airbus A321neo narrow-body planes used to replace an ageing fleet of Boeing 757s on transcontinental flights, such as Los Angeles to New York JFK. The issue appears...
Award seats are not gone, but the way most people search for them is broken. After redeeming billions of miles over more than 25 years, the rules that still work are the same ones most travelers resist: be flexible on dates, routes, gateways, programs, and prices; book the workable trip...
Cathay Pacific has been forced to permanently close its excellent Manila lounge, and the apparent reason is not lack of demand or due to any wishes of the Hong Kong carrier. Rather, it looks like NAIA’s operator wants to push passengers into airport-operated lounges and charge airlines for the privilege....
One of the main cabin doors of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner operated by South American airline LATAM has been ripped clean off the fuselage during a mishap at one of the most remote airports in the world… And now, engineers have to work out how they are going to fix...
The American Expres Platinum Card is about to lose this benefit for good, so better use it now before it gets axed later this month.
The first Airbus A350-1000ULR (Ultra Long Range) aircraft has concluded its first test flight successfully. The A350-1000ULR (MSN 707), the first of 12 aircraft ordered by Qantas, has completed its first flight in Toulouse, France. The aircraft, fitted with special flight test instrumentation, flew for a three-hour and 43-minute sortie,...
Most travelers have strong opinions about airlines, hotels, vacation rentals and rideshare companies. But which travel brands have the worst reputations overall? A newly released survey asked Americans exactly that—and…
At Frequent Miler, we keep a database of point valuations called “Reasonable Redemption Values.” These are estimates of the “worth” of airline miles, hotel points, transferable points, and more. The idea is that we try to identify the point at which it is “reasonable” to get that much value or...
Is yet another American Express card about to undergo a refresh, similar to some of their other card that were refreshed recently?
An American Airlines regional jet from Nashville to Washington National was met by hazmat crews after a so-called service dog made such a mess in the cabin that passengers became sick. Genuine service animals can have accidents, but this is exactly why travelers are fed up with fake service-animal paperwork:...
