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Air France Served This Surprisingly Elegant Business Class Meal On A 250-Mile Flight
Air France managed to serve a rather elegant little Business Class meal on a flight of just 250 miles between Basel and Paris, and while it certainly wasn’t a feast, I thought it was very well done. Meal Of The Week: Air France Business Class From Basel To Paris My...
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Don’t sleep on Costco Travel for car rental bookings, especially if you have an additional driver
My wife and I returned from a week-long holiday in Mallorca a few days ago. Although it was primarily a vacation where we wanted to laze around, we knew that we’d want to explore the island a little bit, plus we needed to transport ourselves between the airport and the...

One Mile at a Time
Secret Delta VIP Select Service: What This $500+ Airport Package Gets You
Most people don’t know this (since the airline doesn’t publicize it in any way), but Delta has a VIP service that any passenger can book. I’m not going to suggest that this is some amazing deal that everyone should take advantage of, but it’s at least a pretty comprehensive service....

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Capital One, Chase And Amex Airport Lounges Ranked — These Are The 8 Best In The U.S.
Capital One, Chase, and American Express have turned premium card airport lounges into a real competitive battleground, and the best ones now rival or beat many airline lounges. Capital One leads on food — especially at LaGuardia, Washington National, and JFK — while Chase has some of the best-designed large...

Traveling For Miles
Physical Amex cards now get you into Priority Pass lounges
Most TFM readers who have a Priority Pass membership almost certainly have it as a benefit that one or more of their credit cards gives them, but up until now, it hasn't been possible to use that card to access any Priority Pass lounges. A Priority Pass membership card (physical...

Live and Let’s Fly
Air France Closes Paris Lounge Sauna After Passengers Apparently Turned It Into A Sex Den
I was looking forward to one of my favorite pre-flight rituals at Paris Charles de Gaulle: a sauna in the Air France Lounge in Terminal 2E, Hall L. Instead, I discovered that the sauna is gone for good, apparently because some passengers could not behave themselves. Air France Permanently Closes...

Traveling For Miles
IHG announces new upscale properties in London and Hong Kong
IHG has announced that it has signed agreements to add a property in London and a property in Hong Kong to its Vignette Collection, and as both hotels are already firmly established in their own right (these aren't new builds), they'll be joining IHG this year.

Paddle Your Own Kanoo
Bungling Engineers Left an Entire Floodlight in the Wing of a Qantas A380 Superjumbo, and it Was Only Found After it Carried Nearly 1,000 Passengers
What to Know Engineers accidentally left a floodlight inside the wing of a Qantas A380 during maintenance in Sydney, and it wasn’t discovered until after the aircraft had flown nearly 1,000 passengers to Dallas Fort Worth and back. In This Article How the worklight slipped past both the foreign object...

One Mile at a Time
Chase Ink Business Card Bonus Categories: How To Earn 1.5-5x Points
While there are lots of great business credit cards, Chase has what I’d consider to be the best portfolio of business credit cards, with the Ink Business credit card lineup. These offer everything I look for in cards — great welcome bonuses, big spending category bonuses, and useful perks.
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Citi ThankYou Rewards Complete Guide (2026)
Citi ThankYou Rewards competes directly with three other bank-issued transferable points programs: Chase Ultimate Rewards, Amex Membership Rewards, and Capital One “Miles.” Points can be transferred to airline partners, used to pay for travel or merchandise, redeemed to pay bills, or converted to cash back, and the program is now a...

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CHINESE AIRLINES: 2026 guide to which airline is best
I was really surprised when I looked at the 2PAXfly reader statistics and found that an article about which Chinese Airlines were best was one of 2PAXfly’s most popular posts. That was nearly 18 months ago, so time to update my choices. When I first wrote this guide in January...

The Gate with Brian Cohen
Top Airports and Airlines for Flight Deals in 2026 in the United States
Going — which is formerly known as Scott’s Cheap Flights until 2023 — released its annual lists of top airports and airlines for flight deals in 2026 in the United States; and it includes the ranking of the best airports in the United States for deals using points and miles...

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What’s so great about Air Canada Aeroplan? | Question of the Week Ep12 | 8-17-26
What’s so great about Air Canada Aeroplan? We received this question from Dana: I have 300,000 points stuck in Aeroplan, and they will expire in the next year. Instead of transferring more points in or purchasing points to keep them active, I just want to use them. I would like...

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QANTAS: Domestic sale. Does this mean a Double Status Credits and Points promotion is on its way?
Qantas has launched its biggest domestic sale, so far of 2026. They are claiming it has more than two million discounted Economy and Business Class seats across 101 routes and 60 destinations. Economy fares start at $99 one way, but only on selected dates through to August 2027 — including...

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(Extended) Buy IHG Points for as low as 0.5 cents each
IHG has returned with another sale, offering a 100% bonus when buying points. That means you can buy IHG Rewards points for as low as 0.5. cents per point (cpp). This sale was originally due to end on August 17, but it’s now been extended through September 1, 2026. As...

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Passengers Ordered Off Plane In Maine As Police Make A Threat They Can’t Deliver On
Police boarded a Breeze Airways Airbus A220 in Bangor, Maine and ordered a group of passengers including a parent with a toddler off the aircraft. One officer offered them a choice: leave voluntarily or get arrested and placed on the no-fly list.

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Google Buys Spirit Airlines’ Emails, Files And Flight Records For $10 Million — So Gemini Can Learn From Bankruptcy
Google won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines’ internal data, paying $10 million for emails, Teams messages, code repositories, operating records, pricing data, maintenance history, and disruption records that can help train AI systems on real business decisions and failures. The deal excludes Spirit’s customer list and personal passenger data,...

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Cathay Pacific award rebate promo: Get 800 Asia Miles back for every 5,000 you redeem
Cathay Pacific is celebrating its 80th birthday this year. To mark the occasion, it’s running a new promotion that’s giving a rebate of 800 Asia Miles for every 5,000 that you redeem—a 16% return. That’s a good deal, but there are several important terms to be aware of that might...

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New Dulles Airport Documents Show $20 Billion Rebuild Delivers Less — While Cost Per Passenger Sextuples, Raising Fares
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority will vote on $15.5 billion for the Dulles rebuild, 99% financed with debt and pushing major work into at least 2039, while driving airline costs per passenger from $12.77 toward $90 which will undercut growth, competition and low fares.

The Gate with Brian Cohen
Save 10% on Airfares With Ethiopian Airlines
You can save 10% on airfares with Ethiopian Airlines from most origination airports in Europe, Asia, and Africa to most destinations that are served by the airline on almost all fares in both the economy class cabin and in the business class cabin for travel between Wednesday, September 16, 2026...

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Readers Seeing Strong Approvals For Citi Strata Elite — $2,300 In First-Year Value
Readers are reporting surprisingly generous approvals for Citi new premium credit card. The Strata Elite currently offers an initial bonus and credits I value at $2,300 total in the first cardmember year, making it one of the most lucrative new card launches in years.

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3 more reasons to pay attention to Capital One Offers (and Savewise)
We frequently post about deals of the day that Capital One Shopping and Capital One Offers run as those can often be ridiculously generous. While Capital One Shopping—which is open to anyone—tends to garner more attention due to the highly targeted boosted rates you’ll sometimes receive via email based on...






































