Travel After Five

World of Hyatt has been our favorite hotel loyalty program for years. Points are easy to earn, largely through Hyatt’s partnerships with Chase and Bilt, and you can get great value from those points in comparison to other hotel programs. However, Hyatt recently made seismic changes to its award chart, moving from an 8-category...

Travelers heading out of Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP) will now have access to…

If you're not sure how to take advantage of the easy $50 welcome bonus from Rakuten, here is in my opinion the best way to get some easy money. Simply ...

A design flaw is finally slated to be fixed, as pedestrian walkways between concourses are officially planned to be built at Denver International Airport as the best alternative for passengers whenever the subterranean train becomes inoperable or unreliable. The only way that passengers can currently travel within the airport between...

Delta is using AI to price tickets. United wants to use it to better explain what is actually happening when your flight goes sideways. If Kirby delivers on maintenance videos and improved plain-English delay updates for every flight, that is the rare airline AI project passengers may actually like.

When Southwest moved to assigned seating, one problem was almost guaranteed to show up sooner or later: what happens when a passenger pays extra for a “window” seat…and there isn’t…

Bilt Rewards has announced details of the next Rent Day, with this one happening on June 1. It offers a transfer bonus of 25%-125%, but it’ll likely be of limited appeal seeing as it’s to TAP Air Portugal. The Deal Transfer Bilt Rewards points to TAP Air Portugal on June...

Saudi Arabia is investing an unprecedented amount of money in tourism, and also in diversifying its economy away from oil. I’ve been watching this with great interest, as we’ve never seen a project to this scale before, and many have wondered just how realistic some of these ambitions are. I’m...

Scott Kirby says United is not buying American Airlines or JetBlue — and calls a JetBlue deal “mathematically not doable.” But a bankruptcy scenario, recently floated by JetBlue's founder, would change the math.

Despite what certain other blog authors might say, you can't have a "free" Priority Pass membership. Maybe travel isn't "free" but this isn't even close

Exit row seats are already confusing enough for some travelers. You have to be willing to help in an emergency, physically capable of opening the door, able to hear and…

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby is a very smart, but increasingly strange and unpredictable, leader. He does a great job propelling his airline in the right direction, but I feel like he’s saying more and more things that make you scratch your head, and make you wonder if he is...

Capital One Offers is currently targeting some cardholders with nicely rewarding spending offers for a nominal amount of spend. In many cases, you can spend $20 at a wide range of retailers and earn 1,000 bonus miles. The Deal Spend $20 at select retailers & get 1,000 bonus miles from...

American Airlines has announced a sweeping modernization of its narrowbody inflight customer experience with the installation of Starlink, the fastest Wi-Fi in the sky.

Wyndham Rewards has launched its latest promotion on purchased points. While not quite in line with the best offers we’ve seen from the program, it’s still competitive. However, I’d only make a purchase with a specific use in mind, since Wyndham Rewards points have become less valuable over time.

Saudi Arabia’s mirrored megacity was supposed to help sell the kingdom as the next global tourism powerhouse. But with NEOM’s The Line now pushed beyond 2030 and other resort investments slowing, the travel demand behind Riyadh Air has gotten more challenging, as the country tries to figure out if...

tl;dr – Who will end up with the Draupnir? ​Norse Atlantic Airways is reportedly up for sale and…

If you hadn’t heard, we’re back from my wife Sharon’s big round birthday year trip. And in our house, those trips come with one simple rule: the birthday person gets…