Capital One miles is offering a 30% transfer bonus when you transfer points to Preferred Hotels & Resorts I Prefer. With this transfer bonus, the ratio becomes 1:2.6, which still isn’t nearly as good as the regular 1:4 ratio from Citi Thank You Rewards.   The Deal Capital One is...

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The best points rewards programs, in our opinion, are those that allow points to be transferred to many different airline and hotel loyalty programs. In this way, it’s often possible to get outsized value from your points. For example, suppose you want to fly lie-flat business class to Europe. Prices...

Hyatt Hotels increased the cost of award redemptions and while most of the miles and points community is outraged, I’m really not bothered but for practical reasons. Award Changes The headlines in the miles and points community this week might as well have been “Sky Is Falling, Hyatt Nukes Award...

Lufthansa has launched its latest promotion on purchased miles. While I’d argue that this is niche, it has the potential to be a good value, especially given that this is a points currency that can otherwise be hard to accrue.

Published: February 28, 2026 • Updated: February 28, 2026 February 2026. Travel is a grind. Lounges are at capacity. The “exclusive” experience is now a 45-minute waitlist for a lukewarm buffet. Between the Global Entry suspension and the United MileagePlus squeeze, the airport has become a series of obstacles and...

A new row has broken out between flight attendants at Southwest Airlines and the Dallas-based carrier’s management over plans to reduce boarding delays caused by its switch to assigned seating. Since ending its iconic open seating policy on January 27, Southwest has been battling with slow passenger boarding because people...

After Southwest Airlines replaced open seating with assigned seats, wheelchair requests instantly plummeted, confirming long-suspected abuse of the boarding process. Plus, the abandoned Park Hyatt Los Angeles "ghost tower" might finally get new life, and Bilt launches a premium hotel program for luxury travelers.

Beagle Channel in Argentina. Beagle Channel in Argentina. Sunday Morning Photograph. The lighting on those glasses reminded me of. Final Boarding Call Trivia time: The Beagle Channel. The purpose of the weekly series of Sunday Morning Photograph articles is to feature photographs from my travels around the world which you...

A new transfer bonus has launched from Chase Ultimate Rewards to the Avios programs (Aer Lingus, British Airways, and Iberia). Keep in mind that you can transfer from there to other Avios programs like Qatar Airways and Finnair, so this can be a widely useful bonus, even if not the...

Link: Apply for a Bilt credit card, with three options to choose from

The Qantas Boeing 747SP was a rare aircraft, with the Australian airline ordering just two examples. They were…

Update 3/1/26: Just a quick reminder that this transfer bonus is available for today only. ~ Bilt Rewards has released details of its next Rent Day promotion and it’s great news for people who were excited by the addition of Japan Airlines as a transfer partner last year. That’s because...

Korean Air is currently investing quite a bit in its passenger experience, seemingly finally realizing that the carrier has been sort of second rate among its Asian peers. Along those lines, the airline is refreshing in its lounge network. While this includes a full overhaul of lounges at Seoul Incheon...

Here are this week’s travel and cruise headlines and news from around the web and interweb: Major Shareholder Blasts NCLH Leadership, Pushes for Major Changes “Don’t Go”: British Tourist Detained By The U.S. Warns Travelers To Avoid Visiting America Amex Is Upgrading Resy to Win the Restaurant Reservation Wars Once...

A passenger desperately needed to use the lavatory during a delayed flight, but an angry flight attendant repeatedly blocked access—demanding his boarding pass as ransom. Now fired, the flight attendant is suing the airline.

Imagine paying for first class, only to downgrade yourself to a lower cabin due to bad service. That’s allegedly what happened to a traveler on a recent transatlantic American Airlines flight.

A marathoner locked himself in a plane lavatory for an hour to log a 5K on Strava. Passengers and the internet had thoughts.

Passengers on an American Airlines flight from Philadelphia experienced a wild 16-hour ‘flight to nowhere’ after their Boeing 787 Dreamliner performed a U-turn around seven hours into a transatlantic service to Doha, Qatar, when airspace across the Gulf was suddenly shuttered on Saturday. This is one of the longest ‘flights...