Paddle Your Own Kanoo
Giant Cat Escapes Owner On Delta Air Lines Flight And Tries to Takeover First Class
A ‘big fat’ cat managed to escape her owner on a recent Delta Air Lines flight and decided that First Class was a far more appropriate place for her ‘spoiled ass,’ according to another passenger who caught the hilarious moment in a now viral TikTok video. Now viewed more than 760,000...
Frequent Flyer Bonuses
Earn 50% bonus Skywards Miles on all Emirates & flydubai flights worldwide!
Emirates is celebrating the 25th Anniversary of their Skywards program in a big way! The airline is offering 50% bonus Skywards miles on all flights worldwide across all fare classes! On top of this there is a contest to win miles and bonuses on buying/gifting miles as well as with...
Frequent Miler
Buy IHG Points for as low as 0.5 cents each
IHG has returned with another sale that’s giving a 100% bonus when buying their points. That means you can buy IHG Rewards points for 0.5 cents per point (cpp). This is a limited-time sale that ends on Saturday, October 11th. Unlike the many IHG sales that are labeled as a mystery...
View from the Wing
Family Suing American Airlines For January’s DCA Tragedy The Government Caused [Roundup]
News and notes from around the interweb: Oh, come on. The federal government was primarily responsible for this. The Black Hawk helicopter shouldn’t have been in the approach path. Maybe you want to apportion some blame to the air traffic control system. But scheduling flights to...
One Mile at a Time
Saudia Arabia’s New Social Media Rules Ban Flaunting Luxury, Showing Skin
When you travel somewhere, it’s important to understand the laws of that country, since they can impact tourists and locals alike. We’re seeing Saudi Arabia invest an unprecedented amount of money in tourism at the moment. It remains to be seen what comes of that, but it sure is a...
Your Mileage May Vary
Bonvoy Brilliant: The Marriott Card With The Best Benefits, If You’re Able To Use Them All
The Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant® American Express® Card is the premium co-branded Marriott card on the market. It’s the only Marriott card that grants automatic Platinum Elite status, plus 25 elite night credits each year to help you climb toward Titanium or Ambassador status. Cardholders also receive an annual Free Night...
Miles To Memories
Earn Up to 37,500 Bonus Points with New Wyndham Promotion
New Wyndham Promotion Wyndham has launched a new promotion for Wyndham Rewards members. You can get 7,500 bonus points just by staying two nights at eligible hotels during the promotion period. You can earn the bonus for up to four stays, and you can get an extra 7,500 points if you...
Frequent Miler
New Marriott Boundless Offer: 125,000 points + 50K free night certificate
Chase has come out with an excellent new offer for the Marriott Boundless Card. New applicants receive 125,000 Bonvoy points and a free night certificate worth up to 50,000 points after being approved and spending $3,000 on the card within the first 3 months. The free night cert can be...
Monkey Miles
October Bilt Rent Day – Amazon and Rent Redemption Bonuses
Bilt Rewards Rent Day: October 2025 Paying your rent is always painful, so Bilt Rewards had the bright idea to make the first of the month a bit more fun and rewarding. So, a few years back, they launched a “RENT DAY” promo to reward Bilt Rewards members on the first...
PointsMath
Wyndham Stay Promotion: Earn Up to 30000 Bonus Points
With the Wyndham Stay Promotion, you can earn up to 30000 Bonus Wyndham Points. Although Wyndham isn’t as luxurious as Marriott or Hyatt, it offers decent hotels and a decent points value. This promotion, however, is decent. Wyndham Stay Promotion: Basics To earn up to 30K Bonus points with this promotion, you...
Miles To Memories
New Amex Offers for Alaska Airlines, YouTube TV, Lululemon and Safeway
New Amex Offers American Express has some new Amex Offers available for select cardholders. These offers include savings at Alaska Airlines, YouTube TV, Lululemon and Safeway. Check out the details of each offer, and take a look at your accounts to see if you have them. Alaska Airlines Earn a one-time $60 statement...
PointsMath
Deal: Buy Wyndham Reward Points with a Flat 90% Bonus [0.68¢ or ₹0.60/Point]
Wyndham is one of the largest hotel chains in the world, with several hotels worldwide. It is also a transfer partner of  Axis Bank, HDFC, HSBC TravelOne Card & SBI Miles. If you’re short on Wyndham Reward points, check out this offer. If you buy Wyndham Points until 21st October 2025, you will receive...
The Alviator
Review: Cathay Pacific 777 Aria Suite Business Class (LHR-HKG)
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PointsMath
Buy IHG Points with a Flat 100% Bonus Points [0.50¢ or ₹0.44/Point]
There are tons of ways to earn IHG Points. One such way is buying these Points. It could be a good deal to buy points when a bonus offer is available. Now, you can buy IHG Points and get 100% bonus points. So, here is everything you need to know...
Frequent Miler
Vacation mode starts now… Oh, the places I won’t go! (Greg’s 100K Vacay Journal)
I’m on my way! My swimsuits and loud shirts are packed. My 100K Vacay hat and water bottle are at hand (and head). And, I’m at Detroit airport’s Lufthansa Lounge (thanks to Priority Pass), ready to board a positioning flight to New York City. Anyone care to guess my final...
Points With a Crew
Amazon Prime Big Deal Days Announced (Some Deals Available Now)
Amazon Prime Day happens once per year in July and offers some of the biggest deals out there across a wide variety of different types of products. Perhaps to fill the gap between Amazon Prime Day and Black Friday, Amazon has announced Amazon Prime Big Deal Days. Amazon has now...
Live and Let’s Fly
Delta Air Lines Drops Geneva Flights In Latest JFK Pullback
Delta Air Lines will end its nonstop service between New York (JFK) and Geneva (GVA) at the end of the IATA summer season in late October 2025. This follows the recent news that the New York–Brussels (BRU) route will end in January 2026 after 34 years and follows the elimination...
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Plane Made a Strange Detour on the Way to New York: Here’s Why
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to New York on Thursday morning, and while his attendance at the UN General Assembly, alongside meetings with President Trump and other world leaders, is sure to make headlines, the route he chose to fly to the United States has generated significant attention today. Netanyahu...
Frequent Flyer Bonuses
September 25 Bonus Offer Highlight: Marriott Bonvoy – Earn 10,000 bonus points at 14 luxury properties in the Western U.S.
Today’s bonus offer highlight is a new Marriott Bonvoy promotion that awards 10,000 bonus points on stays in suites at over a dozen luxury properties in the Western U.S.! Check out all of the new bonuses added today: The Bonus Offer Highlight: Marriott Bonvoy Earn 10,000 bonus Bonvoy points for stays of 2...
Your Mileage May Vary
Passengers Spoke & The Airline Listened; Seats Will Not Get Narrower
Here in the United States, you’ll find companies here and there that listen to their customers and make changes based on their feedback. However, it’s a rare company that makes a business choice specifically to earn them more money, their customers complain, and before the “new” process even starts, the...
Miles To Memories
Marriott Bonvoy Boundless Card Offering 125K Points and Free Night
Marriott Bonvoy Boundless Card Offering 125K Points and Free Night The Marriott Bonvoy Boundless card has a new welcome bonus that is worth up to 175,000 points. The bonus comes in the form of 125,000 points and one Free Night. Let’s go over the details. The Offer Earn 125,000 Bonus Points plus 1...
View from the Wing
British Airways Slashed Its Elite Program And 4,000 Top Flyers Immediately Bolted To Air France KLM
Travel providers are interested in acquiring their competitors’ best customers, but elite status has a lock-in effect. You might want to defect from United to American or from Delta to Alaska, but it’s pretty tough to do that and start from scratch with a new airline. You’re well treated as...
Frequent Miler
Get top-tier Radisson VIP status + Club Avolta Platinum status with this double status match (back again)
Update 9/25/25: We had thought that the Club Avolta to Radisson Rewards status match had gone away some time ago, but according to Loyalty Lobby, it’s working again. The trick is that you have to manually email Club Avolta at clientservice@dufry.com and ask them to match your Club Avolta status to...
Frequent Miler
Office Depot/OfficeMax: Buy $300+ Mastercard Gift Cards, Save $15
Office Depot and OfficeMax stores have returned with their profitable gift card deal on Mastercard gift cards. The Deal Buy $300+ Mastercard gift cards at Office Depot/OfficeMax & get $15 off instantly. Key Terms Valid 9/21/25-9/27/25 Limit 10 per household/business (different stores may try to impose various limits that don’t correspond to the ad). Quick Thoughts As...
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
Singer Ryan Adams Blasts Delta Air Lines After Been Banned Because His First Class Seat Was Broken
The rock and country singer Ryan Adams put Delta Air Lines on blast on Wednesday after he was removed from a flight and allegedly threatened with being banned from flying with the carrier ever again. In an angry Instagram post, the New York, New York, and Come Pick Me...
The Gate with Brian Cohen
Save Up to 20% on Select Flights With Vueling Airlines
Purchase tickets and save up to 20% on select flights with Vueling Airlines for travel between Wednesday, October 1, 2025 and Thursday, December 18, 2025. No promotion code is required… Save Up to 20% on Select Flights With Vueling Airlines Photograph ©2018 by Brian Cohen. …but you must complete your purchase by...
One Mile at a Time
Breeze Airways Adds International Flights As Of 2026: Don’t Get Too Excited
Breeze Airways launched operations in 2021. The value carrier was founded by serial airline entrepreneur David Neeleman, who is also the person behind JetBlue, among other airlines. The carrier’s business model is based around operating point-to-point flights in underserved markets. Up until now, the airline has exclusively been operating domestically. We’ve...
Andy’s Travel Blog
A Legacy Begins: Qantas Launches the A321XLR and I was there!
“I mean of course there’s a dancing kangaroo mascot”, I said to myself as I walked up to a swarm of people at Sydney’s Domestic Airport T3 this morning.  It was early, I hadn’t got much sleep the night before, but I was excited nonetheless.  No, not just because of...
Dots, Lines, & Destinations
DLD 553: Too good to be true
As an airline trims meals for being too popular with passengers we’re pondering the cyclical nature of inflight products, and if there’s ever a reason to believe things will stabilize. Also in this episode: BA makes cuts to Club Europe meals because the product “is so popular” New SAN terminal Foreign arrivals to US...
TravelUpdate
Strasbourg Day 2: More Beauty, More History
Early morning walks are a common feature of my travels. The chill is noticeable as I leave the voco Strasbourg, but the clear skies promise a fairly pleasant winter day. It would certainly be more pleasant to visit in the summer, but I’m also finding I prefer the uncrowded off-season. I...
One Mile at a Time
Qantas’ Bladder-Defying A321XLRs: One Lavatory Per 90 Passengers
It’s an exciting day for Qantas, sort of, as the airline is putting its first Airbus A321XLRs into service. These planes will be used to refresh the carrier’s domestic product, and will eventually become the backbone of Qantas’ narrow body fleet. However, one aspect of the passenger experience on these...
Live and Let’s Fly
KLM Plans Major Longhaul Cabin Changes: More Seats, Fewer Galleys
KLM will introduce a new longhaul “service concept” starting in 2027 that it says will create more room for personal contact while also increasing the number of seats across its intercontinental fleet. The plan spans World Business Class to Economy Class, and includes layout changes that add capacity, particularly in...