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United CEO Says American Airlines Will Abandon Chicago After Losing $1.1 Billion—What Its Exit Would Mean For Fares
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby says economic gravity will force American Airlines out of Chicago O’Hare. That wouldn't be great for airfares, but wouldn't be as bad as you think.
In fact, American can and will stay far longer than Kibry believes. But if it fails, United gets the feed...

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Prince Harry And Meghan Markle Move Back To Britain On $120,000 Private Jet Flight
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are back in Britain, arriving with Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet after flying privately from Southern California to Birmingham. Let’s take a look at how they flew there, which is different than the past several trips on British Airways or American Airlines. Prince Harry And...

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Win 1 million Atmos Points from T-Mobile (open to all)
As part of this week’s T-Mobile Tuesdays promotion, the mobile company is running a sweepstakes that will award ten people grand prizes of 1,000,000 Atmos Points. I had signed up for this in my T-Life app, which required me to play a silly little matching game before processing the entry. I...

One Mile at a Time
FAA Firing Two Air Traffic Controllers For Leaving Early Night Of Deadly LaGuardia Air Canada Accident
In March 2026, we saw an Air Canada Jazz CRJ-900 collide with a fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport (LGA), claiming the lives of two pilots, and injuring dozens of others.

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Sapphire Reserve® Exclusive Tables expands again, but 28 restaurants removed
The Chase Sapphire Reserve® card includes twice-annual $150 credits for restaurant spending at Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Tables. These are a curated selection of high-end restaurants available through a special version of OpenTable. You do NOT need to make a reservation or pay through Chase or OpenTable in order to earn...

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Should National Parks Be Forced to Cede Land to Private Developers?
National parks offer destinations that preserve and protect natural aspects of the land that they feature — as well as welcome respites for millions of visitors annually — so should the National Park Service of the United States be forced to cede land to private developers?
Unsubstantiated reports are circulating that...

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Best Cash Back Credit Card Offers
We’re usually all about earning points and miles. The games we play involves acquiring points & miles so that we can then travel as close to free as possible. That doesn’t mean that you turn up your nose at cash, however. You may have more travel rewards points than you...
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Hidden Gem Awards | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep373 | 8-28-26
In this episode, we’ll hear about the “best ever” Hyatt Place breakfast, we’ll talk about where Greg should go after Berlin, and share lesser-known sweetspot awards like flights to Europe from 90 points and Scandinavian hotels from 500 points! Hidden Gem Awards Watch the full episode below, or listen on...

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Rove Miles revamps: New mobile app, dining program, gift card marketplace, and more
Today, Rove Miles announced major changes to its program, including a mobile app, a third-party gift card purchasing portal with instant rewards, and a card-linked dining program. At the same time, it has undertaken an extensive redesign of its hotel booking platform and released new browser extensions. Miles earned through...

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DOT Hasn’t Brought An Airline Privacy Case In 40 Years—Lawmakers Demand Probe After Your Reservations Were Sold
Transportation gathered 2,095 pages from ten major airlines in a first-ever privacy review, then released no findings or enforcement action. Lawmakers now want federal auditors to explain what happened—and why airline privacy has gone effectively unpoliced.

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Delta 12Status is back: Washington state residents earn 1 SkyMile for every Seahawks passing yard
Delta is once again running its annual 12Status promotion, which awards one SkyMile to Washington state residents for every passing yard that the Seattle Seahawks achieve during the season. The Deal Get 1 Delta SkyMile for every Seattle Seahawks passing yard if you’re a resident of Washington state. Direct link...

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American Airlines to Pay $200,000 to Settle Federal Discrimination Lawsuit After it Terminated Reservations Agent Who Lost Her Eyesight
American Airlines has agreed to pay $200,000 to settle a federal discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of a telephone reservations agent who was terminated after she lost her eyesight following an horrific accident. The employee had been working as a reservations representative...

Bald Thoughts
Wells Adds 2 Transfer Partners, Dolly’s Impact on TN Travel, Best & Worst Economy Class
Welcome to The Morning Shave for Friday, August 28, 2026. Wells Fargo has increased its airline and hotel transfer partners to 11, Dolly Parton used her music stardom to benefit her local community, and we look at which airlines have the best and worst economy-class seats. Visit BaldThoughts.com/tms to read...

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Frontier Airlines Guts Elite Status—Cuts Mileage Earning Up To 90%, Takes Away Benefits And Sells Them Back
Frontier is stripping elite seat selection and change fee waivers from elites who don't buy up from the base fare, while cutting non-cardmember points-earning earning across the board. Earlier upgrade windows are coming, but require buying a bundle. Platinums loses unlimited companion travel, too.

One Mile at a Time
Highest-Ever Chase Ink Business Unlimited Bonus: Earn 100K Bonus Points
The Ink Business Unlimited Credit Card is part ofthe Chase Ink Business card portfolio, and is one of the best no annual fee cards out there. A few weeks ago, we saw a massive limited time welcome offer rolled out on this card, which is the highest that we've ever...

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Earn up to 15X at Hotels.com today via Capital One Shopping and Capital One Offers
Capital One Shopping and Capital One Offers are featuring up to 15%/15X miles back for Giftcards.com purchases today. This is Capital One Shopping’s “Offer of the Day,” so you won’t see it by searching. Instead, scroll down on the home page until you find the offer. To access Capital One...

Traveling For Miles
Time to stop rewards programs from doing this (it’s just wrong)
When it comes to the buying and selling of miles and points, there is a lot of money at stake, and that makes it a little surprising that there doesn't appear to be much oversight over the programs that print their own currencies.

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Sapphire Reserve® Exclusive Tables expands again, but 28 restaurants removed
The Chase Sapphire Reserve® card includes twice-annual $150 credits for restaurant spending at Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Tables. These are a curated selection of high-end restaurants available through a special version of OpenTable. You do NOT need to make a reservation or pay through Chase or OpenTable in order to earn...

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Scott Kirby Says American Airlines Will Retreat From Chicago, Clearing The Way For A United Fortress Hub
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby is again predicting that American Airlines will eventually retreat from Chicago O’Hare, arguing that the economics of its current operation simply cannot hold. Kirby may ultimately be right, but I hope he isn’t. A United-dominated O’Hare would be great for United but very bad for...









































