Travel After Five

Alaska Airlines is facing a rare $165,000 fine for allowing intoxicated passengers on board its flights, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced on Tuesday. In a very brief statement, the FAA said that it was proposing the civil penalty based on incidents that occurred on 11 flights between February 2024...

Sri Lanka now offers visa free entry to visitors of 40 countries in what appears to be on a permanent basis effective as of yesterday, Monday, May 25, 2026 — the visa used to cost $50.00 in United States dollars — but an Electronic Travel Authorization is still required even...

Homes & Villas by Marriott tends to have some kind of promotion running nearly every day of the year in one form or another. Its latest one is awarding 3X points when staying five or more nights at properties in the Caribbean and Latin America. The Deal Earn 3X points...

Airports have become one of the last places where being rich, famous or powerful doesn’t always get people special treatment. At least not when TSA agents, gate agents or flight…

A couple of weeks ago, several Incomm-run stores—MastercardGiftCard.com, VanillaGift.com, and AmexGiftCard.com—launched sales waiving purchase fees on Visa, Mastercard, and/or Amex gift cards when using a graduation-themed promo code. TheGiftCardShop.com has also joined them, waiving purchase fees on both Visa and Mastercard gift cards when using promo code GRADS26. The Deal...

The American Express Gold Card (application) has a $325 annual fee (Rates & Fees), which is obviously on the steep side. Fortunately the ”worth it” question on the card is pretty easy to answer. Almost everyone eats, and the bonus points at restaurants and U.S. supermarkets is easy to use,...

Flying to Europe this summer may mean more than crowded airports and packed flights. Europe’s new biometric border checks are creating hours-long immigration lines at some airports, with travelers missing connecting flights on arrival and returning flights as first-time registration overwhelms passport control.

The K-25 cooling blanket is designed for hot sleepers, those who get night sweats while they sleep, pregnant people, those with menopause, and others who get hot while sleeping. It's on Kickstarter, but only for a few more ...

The outrage of the day in the Hyatt world is that Park Hyatt Sydney and Park Hyatt Tokyo are apparently being treated as resorts for late checkout purposes. That matters…

Air Canada says Seats.aero’s automated award-search scraping is computer fraud. Seats.aero says Air Canada is trying to block a useful award tool and shut down competition — and now the fight is expanding from website terms and trademarks into antitrust, tortious interference, and unfair competition claims.

If you’re planning on having a destination wedding, IHG currently has a promotion that can earn you up to 300,000 bonus IHG One Rewards points if you book your wedding at one of their participating properties. The Deal Book a wedding at participating IHG properties and earn the following bonus...

​tl;dr – For those who ‘Gotta Catch ‘Em All.’ Pokémon is turning 30, and the collective Pokeverse is…

Denver International Airport has devised a solution to its increasingly overcrowded transit train system: Get passengers to walk between concourses through underground baggage tunnels. As passenger frustration grows over packed trains and reliability issues at one of America’s busiest airports, Denver Airport is finally taking action to relieve the pressure,...

​tl;dr – Another luxury brand for the megalopolis. ​Rosewood Hotels recently announced its plans to open the Rosewood…

For decades, cruisers have casually grabbed cookies, pizza, coffee or dessert from the buffet and taken it back to their cabin, the pool deck or their balcony. One cruise line…

TheCapital One Venture Business launched several weeks ago, and is a rebranded version of the former Capital One Spark Miles, with some very nice improvements. The card has an absolutely massive welcome bonus, and I’ve received word that the offer is ending on June 8, 2026, so if interested, you’ll...

For quite some time, Air France-KLM Flying Blue has been offering paid status match promotions, on an on-again, off-again basis. The status match has always had residency requirements, though the list of countries that are targeted does change over time.

American Airlines has just announced a new deal with Elon Musk’s ultra-fast Starlink internet service in the half-hearted kind of way that passengers have come to expect from the Texas-based carrier, as most passengers won’t actually get to experience it. Like so many of American’s recent forays into creating a...