
Frequent Miler
Earn double Tiles on $1K+ hotel bookings via JetBlue’s TrueBlue Travel portal
JetBlue is once again offering double Tiles when booking hotel stays via its TrueBlue Travel portal. That means you’ll earn 2 Tiles for every $100 spent on hotel room rates, with a minimum spend required of $1,000 before taxes and fees. The Deal Earn 2X Tiles towards JetBlue Mosaic status...

View from the Wing
Finnish Air Force Cadets Drew At Least Four Phalluses In The Sky — Face Discipline
Finnish Air Force cadets turned a routine training exercise into a juvenile aviation tradition, tracing at least four phalluses and two hearts in the sky near Jyväskylä. The flights reportedly stayed within their assigned training area and posed no danger, but the Air Force says the cadets still face disciplinary...

One Mile at a Time
JetBlue CEO Confidently Rules Out Bankruptcy Filing… But Only For 2026
It’s obviously an incredibly challenging time for the airline industry across the board, given the impacts that high jet fuel prices are having on airline margins. It’s nearly impossible for even the world’s most profitable airlines to make money with jet fuel prices where they are, given the elasticity of...

View from the Wing
American Airlines Will Add PS Private Terminal Access For ConciergeKey Members
American Airlines will announce a deal that gives ConciergeKey members access to PS private terminals, extending one of the most exclusive ground products in commercial aviation to its top customers. This fits with PS’s expansion into Dallas and Miami this summer and gives American a new way to make its...

The Gate with Brian Cohen
Save Up to 20% With Marriott Bonvoy
You can save up to 20% with Marriott Bonvoy off of the guest room standard rate when you stay at your choice of participating hotel and resort properties worldwide with its Escapes promotion, which offers exclusive savings every other Thursday through Sunday across select destinations...
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Frequent Miler
Generous spending offers for existing Amex cardholders (very targeted)
You’ll sometimes find spending offers on American Express cards in your Amex Offers. Usually these spending offers aren’t particularly generous—think 7,000 bonus points when spending $28,000—but some cardholders are currently being targeted for spending offers that are far more rewarding. View From The Wing has highlighted one particularly generous offer...

One Mile at a Time
Frankfurt Airport Terminal 3 Starts Phased Opening, And That’s Exciting!
”German airports” and ”good news” don’t typically go in the same sentence. Along those lines, here’s perhaps the most exciting airport development for Germany since the opening of Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER).

View from the Wing
Frontier Airlines Sues American After Planes Collided At The Gate — Again
Frontier Airlines is suing American after another gate collision between the two carriers, arguing this latest incident was not just a one-off ground accident but part of a pattern. Liability seems clear but it's not obvious how much Frontier can recover beyond repair costs, and American has already offered to...

Live and Let’s Fly
Lufthansa Cuts 20,000 Flights As Fuel Crisis Deepens (Full List)
Lufthansa is making aggressive capacity cuts, pulling tens of thousands of flights from its schedule in an environment of rising oil prices and fear of a jet fuel shortage in Europe just weeks away. Lufthansa Cuts 20,000 Flights As Fuel Crisis Forces Network Shakeup Lufthansa Group will cancel roughly 20,000...

Frequent Miler
Amex Airline Fee Reimbursements. What still works?
Several American Express cards offer annual airline fee reimbursements. These reimbursements can go a long way towards easing the sting of the high annual fees charged by personal American Express Platinum Card® and Business Platinum cards. Readers often wonder which types of charges will trigger these credits and/or which methods still...

Economy Class & Beyond
Lufthansa Group pulls over short haul 20,000 flights, with 120 daily flights cancelled
With Lufthansa Group making cuts in its operations (with the halting of Lufthansa CityLine, the parking of its CRJ-900 fleet, as well as planned widebody groundings), the capacity cuts are coming out. In total, 20,000 short-haul flights will be removed from the schedule through October, equivalent to approximately 40,000 metric...

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HAWAIIAN AIRLINES: Alaska integration sees entry to OneWorld alliance
Alaska Airlines’ takeover of Hawaiian Airlines, finalised in September 2024, has been deliberately paced. April 22, 2026, stands out as one of the most consequential milestones. Today, multiple strands of the merger come together. This allows the two carriers to function as one behind the scenes while retaining distinct brands....

View from the Wing
Delta Removed A Passenger Who Appeared Drunk — But She May Have Been Drugged Onboard
A Delta passenger who appeared intoxicated was removed from a flight after landing, but the story took a darker turn the next day when she returned to the airport with little memory of what had happened. Witness accounts suggest she may have been drugged, raising the possibility that what looked...

Miles For Family
Stacking Promo and Annual Credit for Almost-free New Year’s Hotel Stay
Last December, I was approved for the Citi Strata Elite card (see this post) back when the bonus was 100,000 points (it’s currently 75,000 points). Despite the card’s $595 annual fee, I’ve already received a lot of value from the card. In addition to the 100k bonus points I earned,...

One Mile at a Time
Air France-KLM CEO Schools Lufthansa Group CEO On Labor Relations
Could bad labor relations be a reason to block a potential airline acquisition in Europe? That’s the direction things may be headed, and I must admit, I think it’s a pretty smart argument to make. Let’s start with some background, and then tie it in to current events…

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“Free” Cruise match opportunities still exist in 2026
We first wrote about casino matching for free cruises back in 2021, and I took my first of more than a dozen “free” cruises in 2022. While the on-ramps to free cruise matching have become significantly more limited than they once were, there are still opportunities to match your way...

Live and Let’s Fly
American Airlines Fixes Heathrow Catering Mess After Two Months Of Chaos
After nearly two months of subpar meals, missing items, and improvised service, American Airlines says it has finally fixed its London Heathrow catering mess. American Airlines Finally Fixes Heathrow Catering Meltdown American Airlines has restored normal catering on its London Heathrow (LHR) flights after a chaotic period that saw meals...

Paddle Your Own Kanoo
JetBlue CEO Reassures Worried Employees That the Airline Has No Plans to File For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
The chief executive of JetBlue has moved to reassure worried employees that the airline has no plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after the carrier’s founder raised concerns about how much debt JetBlue had taken on. The comments from David Neeleman, who hasn’t been involved in the running...

One Mile at a Time
End Of An Era: Hawaiian Airlines’ “HA” Code Retired, Replaced By “AS”
In September 2024, Alaska Airlines takeover of Hawaiian Airlines officially closed. While Hawaiian Airlines has been part of Alaska Air Group since then, the integration has been a gradual process. Today is arguably one of the biggest days so far in that process.












