Paddle Your Own Kanoo
Airlines Launch Study Into Why Passengers Risk Their Lives to Take Bags During Emergency Evacuations
By now, it’s widely known that airplanes are designed to be evacuated in just 90 seconds with only half of the emergency exits operational. What aircraft designers don’t, however, account for in these designs is passenger behavior. Specifically, passengers who delay an evacuation to retrieve heavy, cumbersome hand luggage from...
PointsMath
Buy Air Canada Aeroplan Points with Bonus or Discount
Current deal: Air Canada Aeroplan regularly runs promotions on buying points. Until 24 January 2026, you can get up to 30% discount when purchasing Aeroplan points. Aeroplan points are beneficial because of their vast Star Alliance & many other partner airlines, and the ability to add a stopover for just...
One Mile at a Time
The Quirky Ritz-Carlton That Doesn’t Participate In Marriott Bonvoy
Often we’ll talk about Marriott affiliated properties that do a poor job of honoring Bonvoy elite benefits, with complete disregard for program rules. However, did you know that there’s one Ritz-Carlton that just fully doesn’t participate in the program? I get questions about this from readers every so often, so...
You Are Travel
JetBlue and JAL to End Partnership: One Fewer Option for Booking JAL Awards
​tl;dr – The airline’s partnership failed to make it one year. ​A notice on JAL’s website reveals that… The post JetBlue and JAL to End Partnership: One Fewer Option for Booking JAL Awards appeared first on You Are Travel.
PointsMath
8 Current Promotions on Buying Points & Miles
Buying hotel points or airline miles can be useful for topping up a balance for a redemption or keeping miles from expiring. Currently, there are eight buy points and miles offers, six from airline programs and two from hotel programs. All purchases are processed in foreign currencies such as USD,...
Frequent Miler
Last Chance Deals: 60+ offers are about to end
Welcome to our weekly list of what’s ending this week as well as a collection of some other deals that are due to end soon. This is the busiest week of the year for expiring deals because so many offers end on December 31. That includes a 40% transfer bonus from...
You Have Been Upgraded
Bis Sonntag zwei Uptrip Sammelkarten geschenkt bekommen
Bei Uptrip einfach zwei Sammelkarten kassieren … Vielleicht hattet ihr zu Weihnachten nicht so ganz viel Zeit für…
Points With a Crew
4 Reasons to Get the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
If you are starting out in the world of credit card miles and points, and aren't sure which card you should get - here are 4 reasons it should be the Chase Sapphire Preferred
The Gate with Brian Cohen
What Is Wrong With This Photograph? Part 333
Information and details pertaining to the Sonesta Atlanta Northwest Galleria – Marietta can be found here if you happen to be interested in staying at this hotel property. For this edition of this popular game, can you guess what... The post What Is Wrong With This Photograph? Part 333 appeared first on...
The Bulkhead Seat
2025 Weekly Review: December 27th
Greetings from Tampa! We spent the holidays in New York and New Jersey visiting… The post 2025 Weekly Review: December 27th appeared first on The Bulkhead Seat.
Frequent Miler
Bedbugs in business class, Riyadh to Doha rail, and unexplainable mystery planes… (Saturday Selection)
Throughout the week, our team shares articles they’ve stumbled upon that may interest our readers, even if they might not otherwise merit a full post. Here are some of the posts we found interesting this week: Bedbugs in business class, Riyadh to Doha rail, and unexplainable mystery planes… GROSS: KLM...
Your Mileage May Vary
Never Drink the Water in These Countries — But You’re Totally Safe in These Others
My husband and I don’t hide the fact that we live in Central FL. With that, people have mentioned to us several times that the water at Disney World tastes…
Frequent Miler
(50% sale extended) CardPointers: Automatically enroll offers to all of your cards
CardPointers is an app/website/browser extension that helps you track all your credit cards, their various benefits, etc. Its most popular feature is the ability to auto-enroll card-linked spending offers like Amex Offers, Citi Offers, etc. Rather than having to go through and manually click to enroll in each offer, CardPointers...
The Bulkhead Seat
I Agree. If You Want First Class, Buy It. Upgrades Should Not Be Free.
Several bloggers (View from the Wing and Live and Let’s Fly) have recently written… The post I Agree. If You Want First Class, Buy It. Upgrades Should Not Be Free. appeared first on The Bulkhead Seat.
Economy Class & Beyond
Last Week at Economy Class and Beyond (27th December)
As we enter the middle bit between Christmas and New Year, where time no longer matters and “what date is it?” is more of a statement than a question. But I’m here to reassure you, at the time of writing, it’s the 27th December – a Saturday this year –...
View from the Wing
How A Breakout Clip On One Private Jet Flight Lit The Fuse — Google Bought DeepMind, Musk Built OpenAI
A Breakout clip watched on a single private jet flight in 2013 kicked off a chain reaction—Google snapped up DeepMind, Musk responded by building OpenAI, and the modern AI arms race was born. Continue reading How A Breakout Clip On One Private Jet Flight Lit The Fuse — Google Bought DeepMind,...