Delta Air Lines is reportedly set to start training thousands of flight attendants on a new onboard experience it has been secretly designing for its premium Delta One cabin, with the new-look service set to go live this Fall on transoceanic services out of its Los Angeles hub. Given the...

A group of Chicago business and civic leaders has unveiled plans for a new…

A new way to book overwater villas with points or free night certificates just dropped. Hilton has been steadily enabling more and more Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH) properties to be bookable through the Hilton Honors program over the past few years. It’s just added five more properties;...

For years, there had been talk of the flight decks of commercial aircraft in the United States getting a second flight deck barrier. This started to become more serious in 2022, when regulators moved forward with a recommendation to implement this change. Then in 2024, we saw the signing of...

A petition to rename Nashville International Airport (BNA) after Dolly Parton is receiving renewed attention after the death of the beloved singer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist was announced on Tuesday following a short battle with cancer. The petition was actually started around two years ago by Lydia Popovich on Change.org, amassing...

A new Didi partnership gives V8 members 180 days of Bonvoy Platinum and a 25-night extension challenge. Marriott apparently omitted identity matching, so resellers can export the status worldwide—and stack it with Meituan to reduce the requirement to eight nights.

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby has done a phenomenal job running the airline over the past several years, and I have a lot of respect for him. He has improved the passenger experience, the route network has kept growing under his leadership, and United is also making progress when it...

A privately financed $2.25 billion O’Hare Flyer would carry passengers between downtown Chicago and the airport in 15 minutes, with trains departing every 15 minutes. Also: Sean Duffy’s reality show pauses to praise credit card points, Hilton offers Amex Platinum cardmembers a Diamond fast track, and new Delta SkyMiles members...

A year or two ago, my younger son started asking if we were going to fly on a “double decker” plane nearly every time we went to an airport. I was therefore thrilled to snag 5 seats in business class on Lufthansa’s 747 for our recent trip to Europe, finally getting...

Aeroplan has quietly nudged up the price of at least some United Airlines economy class awards, another reminder that when loyalty programs introduce variable award pricing, the “variable” part has an unfortunate tendency to move only in one direction. Aeroplan Quietly Raises Prices On Some United Airlines Awards Aeroplan has...

Turkish Airlines is one of my favorite airline brands, and also offers one of the best business class experiences in the world. That’s despite the fact that Turkish doesn’t have a particularly good business class hard product, at least not with any consistency.

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Advertising on facial tissues supposedly now means that the box is close to being empty. In the past, pulling out tissues which were colored other than white from a box in your hotel room likely meant that the tissue box was close to being empty. In recent years, the last...

ALL Accor launched a new promotion yesterday which is awarding double points when staying at its properties in Europe (and select north African countries) for at least two nights. If you happen to have an ALL Accor+ subscription, you’ll earn triple points. The Deal Earn 2X points (or 3X points...

The Transportation Security Administration is about to turn 25 years old. And if TSA’s brand-new boss gets his way, the airport security checkpoint we know (and sometimes tolerate) today could…

There’s a new, targeted Amex Offer available this week which is giving a $200 statement credit when spending $1,000 or more on flights with Lufthansa Group airlines. Flights have to be booked via Amex Travel, so this sadly won’t work when spending $1,000 or more on taxes and fees with...

A woman carrying a roller bag allegedly breached a restricted door at President Donald J. Trump International Airport and ran across the ramp toward an active runway. Two days earlier, she had been arrested after a gun was found in her bag at the Palm Beach County Courthouse—but there is...