View from the Wing
American Airlines Flew Passengers On The Wrong Plane For 8 Hours—Too Big To Land, Diverted To Rome
On Monday, June 2 2025, American Airlines flight 780 took off from Philadelphia for Naples, Italy. They sent the wrong plane - and passengers wound up having to land 124 miles away in Rome. Continue reading American Airlines Flew Passengers On The Wrong Plane For 8 Hours—Too Big To Land,...
TravelUpdate
Earn up to 110,000 Delta SkyMiles these limited time offers!
Limited time offers are now back on co-branded Delta SkyMIles credit cards and you can earn up to 110,000 miles from a single welcome bonus!
Eye of the Flyer
Ending in Days: Earn Up to 750,000 Miles with a Huge Capital One Promotion
A Capital One card’s massive promotion is about to expire. You can net a total of 750,000 Miles — but you’ll probably need some pretty deep pockets to get there. Capital One Venture X Business Early Spend Bonus The offers a two-pronged approach for earning 350k bonus Miles: First, you’ll...
View from the Wing
Tanks Over Takeoffs: Trump 79th Birthday Military Spectacle To Shut Reagan Nationa Airport, Delay 100 Flights
When two runways were shut down at LAX so then-President Clinton could get a haircut it was a nationwide scandal. I look forward to people who were outraged at that incident defending this one. Continue reading Tanks Over Takeoffs: Trump 79th Birthday Military Spectacle To Shut Reagan Nationa Airport, Delay...
Altitude Yes
My Biggest Complaint About Delta’s New Fare Classes
Having to toggle each flight's fare to see the actual Main Cabin fare has been my biggest annoyance with these new fare classes. The post My Biggest Complaint About Delta’s New Fare Classes first appeared on Altitude Yes.
Live from a Lounge
Akasa Air signs up to launch flights from Navi Mumbai International Airport
Navi Mumbai International Airport is set to go live sometime soon in the next weeks or so. Akasa has now signalled that they will be launch flights at the airport when it goes live later in 2025. The post Akasa Air signs up to launch flights from Navi Mumbai International Airport...
You Are Travel
Deal: Receive an 80% Bonus on Your Purchase of Air France / KLM Miles
💡 tl;dr—Air France / KLM just launched another points sales and the airline group is offering a bonus…
Monkey Miles
20% transfer bonus from Chase Ultimate Rewards to Air Canada Aeroplan
Transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards to Air Canada Aeroplan with 20% transfer bonus I’d argue that, with this 20% transfer bonus, Aeroplan will easily be the most valuable partner of Chase Ultimate Rewards. You can find an up to date list of all transfer bonuses here, but I’d highly recommend looking...
Live from a Lounge
IATA sounds the alarm on the growth of sustainability in aviation
SAF not scaling up, new technologies not coming to maturity. Are aviation's sustainability dreams drowning away? Time will tell. But here is where we stand 5 years after the first major initiatives were seeded. The post IATA sounds the alarm on the growth of sustainability in aviation appeared first on...
One Mile at a Time
Condor A320 Operates 32-Hour Journey To Nowhere, With Five Landings
It’s not unusual to see aircraft divert due to inclement weather, causing passengers to arrive at their destination late. However, a recent Condor flight to Greece ended up landing at five airports over the course of 32 hours, only for the plane and passengers to end up exactly where they...
One Mile at a Time
Chase IHG One Rewards Credit Card Eligibility Explained
Chase and IHG have three co-branded credit cards currently open to new applicants. There’s often confusion about who is eligible for these cards (based on which cards you currently have), so in this post, I want to cover the basics of what you need to know to get approved for...
Live from a Lounge
Scapia Cards can now be issued to existing Federal Bank Customers
Scapia, the travel-focused credit card, is back to onboarding new customers. Here are the details of the card and how it made it to my list of cards I use. The post Scapia Cards can now be issued to existing Federal Bank Customers appeared first on Live From A Lounge.
Frequent Flyer Bonuses
Earn 20% bonus Flying Blue Miles on Air France and KLM flights Worldwide
Air France KLM’s are celebrating 20 years of Flying Blue and to kick it all off they are offering a systemwide 20% bonus miles offer! The 20% bonus miles offer: Earn 20% bonus Flying Blue Miles on all eligible Air France and KLM flights Worldwide. Bonus also extends to Transavia...
TravelUpdate
Update: There is interesting construction at Terminal C at DFW airport
I have posted about the new Terminal F that is under construction at Dallas / Fort Worth airport…
2PAXfly
VIRGIN AUSTRALIA: ‘Pick Your Bonus’ double status or points promotion
Virgin Australia’s latest ‘Pick Your Bonus’ promotion offers Virgin Australia’s Velocity Frequent Flyer members a choice. You can choose between double Velocity Points or double Status Credits on eligible flights. This is a timely opportunity following recent program changes that have made attaining higher status tiers more challenging. It could...
Frequent Miler
What are Marriott points worth?
At Frequent Miler, we keep a database of point valuations called “Reasonable Redemption Values.” These are estimates of the “worth” of airline miles, hotel points, transferable points, and more. The idea is that we try to identify the point at which it is “reasonable” to get that much value or...
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
My Camera Finally Died.
Picture this: my camera finally died after greater than 11.5 years of service of taking tens of thousands of photographs in six continents and dozens of countries around the world, as one of the blades of the shutter in the camera dislocated without warning on Sunday, May 4, 2025 at...
Frequent Miler
Delta Personal Cards: Limited-time offers up to 100K SkyMiles
Along with the healthy, new Delta Business card offers that we posted earlier today, Amex has also increased the welcome offers on the suite of Delta personal cards. As per usual, the consumer cards each give you 10K SkyMiles less than the respective business cards, but also with half the...
Frequent Miler
Southwest sale: Save up to 50% with promo code WOWZERS (extended)
Update 6/5/25: Southwest has extended this sale for 24 hours, and it’s now valid for travel booked through the end of Friday, June 6th. ~~~ Southwest is out with another sale, this time offering up to 50% off when using promo code WOWZERS to make reservations by Thursday June 5 for...
One Mile at a Time
Oops: American Flies Wrong Boeing 787 To Italy, Causing Diversion
”Folks, this is your captain speaking. I’m sorry to say, we unfortunately need to divert, as we realized the plane we’ve been flying across the Atlantic all night isn’t actually authorized to land at our destination airport…” That’s gotta be awkward, but that’s basically what happened, per a fascinating scoop...
Your Mileage May Vary
6 Sneaky Ways to Not Look Like a Tourist
For better or for worse, when we Americans are visiting a foreign country, especially in a “tourist town,” the locals can peg us as tourists. Not only that, they can…
Frequent Miler
20% transfer bonus to Air Canada Aeroplan from Chase (stack w/ cardholder bonus)
Chase Ultimate Rewards is offering a 20% transfer bonus to Air Canada Aeroplan when you transfer between today and 7/17/25. That 20% transfer bonus can stack with the 10% bonus for Chase Aeroplan cardholders, making eligible transfers of 50K points or more, creating the opportunity for a bonus of as...
Eye of the Flyer
It Had to End Sometime: Capital One Ending Free Lounge Access for Additional Cardmembers and Guests
There’s some bad news (or good news, depending on how you look at it) for Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card and Capital One Venture X Business members: major changes are coming to both cards’ airport lounge features. Frankly, everything is about as seamless as NFL overtime rules. No...
View from the Wing
Guests Shot The TV, Flooded The Hotel, Set A Car On Fire—And Hit On The Paramedic Sent To Save Them
Hotel employees are trading stories of their worst guests, prompted by a front desk agent at a New York City Marriott. And some of the things guest incidents are just off the charts crazy. Continue reading Guests Shot The TV, Flooded The Hotel, Set A Car On Fire—And Hit On The...
Frequent Miler
Delta Business Cards: Limited-time offers up to 110K SkyMiles
Today, Amex came out with new, limited-time welcome offers that allow you to earn between 90,000-110,000 SkyMiles after being approved for a new Delta SkyMiles business credit card. All three of these offers are on the higher end of what we’ve historically seen (but then again, so are Delta award...
One Mile at a Time
Delta Amex Card Limited Time Welcome Offers: Up To 110K SkyMiles
Delta and American Express have a portfolio of co-branded credit cards. At the moment, we’re seeing increased limited time welcome offers on these cards, making it the ideal time to apply.
The Bulkhead Seat
Spirit Airlines Flights to Columbia, South Carolina Begin Today
Back in March, I wrote about how Spirit Airlines was adding a new destination… The post Spirit Airlines Flights to Columbia, South Carolina Begin Today appeared first on The Bulkhead Seat.
Your Mileage May Vary
CDC Updates Vaccine Recommendations For All International Travelers
The CDC has quietly updated its travel health recommendations, and this time, it’s not about COVID or flu. The agency now says all Americans traveling internationally should be fully vaccinated…
Economy Class & Beyond
Data Storage Adventures – With UGreen NASync – PART 5 Growing the Storage Pool
Data Storage Adventures – With UGreen NASync 4800 Part 5: Make my Storage Monster Grow by adding an Extra Hard Disk To quote the most wonderful Rita Repulsa, MAKE MY MONSTER GROW!  Part 1: Some Background and “Why Now?” Part 2: Which NAS to go for? Some thoughts and design...
The Bulkhead Seat
SWISS Debuts a Signature In-Flight Cocktail
Lufthansa has been serving its signature Avionic cocktail for some time (I tried it… The post SWISS Debuts a Signature In-Flight Cocktail appeared first on The Bulkhead Seat.
Frequent Miler
Chase Bonvoy Boundless: Five Marriott 50K free night certificates back again
We’ve periodically seen an offer on Chase’s Bonvoy Boundless card to earn five Marriott free night certificates, each valid for a night costing up to 50,000 points (though you could also top off with up to 15,000 additional points per night) after $5,000 in purchases in the first 3 months....