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Alaska & Philippine Airlines Expand Partnership: Points Redemptions Live!
In May 2025, Alaska Airlines added a new airline partner, in the form of Philippine Airlines. While the two airlines have now had a partnership for well over a year, we’ve finally seen the ability to redeem points added, which is long overdue, and pretty exciting.
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Qatar Airways Privilege Club: Earn 50% bonus Avios & save up to 25% on all flights Worldwide (For Qatari residents only)
Qatar Airways Privilege Club has a new bonus Avios offer that they are using to entice their home country residents to fly with them until December. رحلات استثنائية هذا الصيف مع خصومات حتى 25% و50% نقاط أفيوس مكافأة The 50% bonus Avios offer: Earn 50% bonus Avios and save up...
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QATAR AIRWAYS: takes Qsuites to Auckland, New Zealand, via Melbourne and Brisbane. New way to cross the Tasman
Qatar Airways is preparing to reshuffle its Auckland service through Australia, ending the fifth-freedom flights via Adelaide and creating two new daily trans-Tasman options, but not at the same time. The via Adelaide flights to Auckland will cease on 16 September 2026. From December 2026, the airline will extend its...
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Best Credit Card Big Spend Bonuses: Elite status, flights, free nights and more
One way banks try to encourage spending on their credit cards is by offering bonus points or perks once you reach a certain spending threshold. For example, it can be possible to earn airline or hotel elite status, free night certificates, companion flights, and more…all through credit card spending alone....
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Worldwide Caution Issued July 2026 By The State Department of the United States: Travel Alert
An unusual worldwide caution that was issued by the Bureau of Consulate Affairs of the State Department of the United States on Wednesday, July 22, 2026 is the result of various civil unrests, conflicts, and wars around the world — but specifically the current conflict in the Middle East and...
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JetBlue expanding “Basic” to EvenMore and new “BlueFirst”
Today, JetBlue has announced that a new “BlueFirst” cabin, a pseudo-first-class experience on domestic routes that do not have Mint cabins, will be coming later this year. Along with that news came the announcement that they are bringing the “basic economy” experience to both Even More and that new first...
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Your Lifemiles+ free award changes/cancellations may end sooner than you think
Late last month, we reported that Avianca LifeMiles quietly removed free changes and cancellations from the benefits of LifeMiles Plus Basic and above. There was no notice or notification given to members or subscribers, but rather LifeMiles simply added some fine print indicating that those members who were subscribed to...
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Qantas Stole Customer Money, Sold Ghost Flights, And Illegally Fired Workers — Now Alan Joyce Wants To Explain It Away
Former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce is back with a memoir and media tour offering apologies for flight credits, ghost flights, illegal outsourcing, passenger-blaming, and his A$17 million stock sale. But the mea culpas mostly read like justifications: Qantas survived, others were worse, and Joyce still wants credit for “getting more...
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United transcontinental business class from 27K miles for cardholders
As flagged by Tim at Roame, and reported over the weekend in our Frequent Miler Insiders Facebook group and on several blogs, United is making much more saver business class award pricing available to United cardholders on premium transcontinental routes at 27,000 United MileagePlus miles each way. I’m not sure...
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SWISS Airbus A330 Makes Emergency Landing in Bangor As Smoke Fills Business Class Cabin at 38,000 Feet
A SWISS International Air Lines Airbus A330 flying from Zurich to New York JFK with 208 passengers on board made an emergency landing at Bangor Airport in Maine on Monday afternoon after smoke started to fill the forward section of Business Class of the 14-year-old aircraft. Flight LX-16 departed Zurich...
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Southwest Airlines Will Open Premium Airport Lounges That Will Be Co-Branded With Chase
We’ve known for some time that Southwest Airlines is working on plans to build its own network of premium airport lounges, and during the Dallas-based carrier’s latest earnings call, chief executive Bob Jordan gave a little more information about the strategy behind these lounges. Airlines generally market premium lounges as...
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August 4 2026: Free Cookies From DoubleTree by Hilton
Tuesday, August 4, 2026 is a notable day if you love free cookies from DoubleTree by Hilton, as the hotel brand is once again celebrating National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day by offering a complimentary signature warm cookie with no obligation whatsoever — whether or not you are a guest of...
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Hyatt Guest Brought Tupperware To Clear Out Club Lounge — Just As Hotels Are Killing Them
A Hyatt Regency Tulsa guest says a family arrived at its club lounge with grocery bags and reusable containers, cleared much of the shared snack supply, and insisted paid access made it theirs.
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Flight Attendants Shocked to Discover Stowaway Sleeping On Parked Plane After Sneaking On Board in the Middle of the Night
Flight attendants had the shock of their lives when they turned up at an airport in Slovakia to work an early morning regional flight to Vienna, Austria, and found a man asleep in the front row of the airplane. The man had apparently scaled the perimeter security fence of the...
