At least a bit to my surprise, Southwest Airlines has decided to offer TSA PreCheck access to it’s customers. This shouldn’t really be a big announcement since so many other airlines have been offering PreCheck for quite some time. But, Southwest doesn’t exactly have…
For those that haven’t heard, Hyatt announced an update to their award chart a few days ago. Now, updates to award charts are rarely positive. And, with the recent castration of the United award chart, it’s easy to be on edge about announcements of…
A bit quicker than I anticipated, American and US Airways has come to a settlement agreement with DOJ. Here’s the meat of what they agreed to. I say “meat” because on the face it looks significant. More analysis later: Under the terms of the…
American Airlines has traditionally allowed people to purchase status at the end of each year if you missed the qualifications by some narrow or wide margin. But, they’ve never allowed the straight purchase of EQMs. Despite this recent announcement about additional options to earn…
I missed a bunch of stories while I was away at Disney this past week and then headed right back out on the road for work, so I’m still trying to get my faithful readers caught up on the world of travel. But, we…
With announcements from United Airlines yesterday and American Airlines the day before, we now have a large amount of planes certified by the FAA to allow certain personal electronic devices in all facets of flight, including taxi, take-off and landing. I was discussing the…
After a few days of radio silence wrapping up a vacation in Disney World, I’m back and I have a ton of stuff to catch up on in the world of points and miles. Here’s my quick tidbit for this morning. United didn’t have…
I had this post scheduled to run on the first day of Qatar’s full membership in oneworld, but United’s friendly moves with Expert Flyer and their incredibly drastic award chart changes distracted me. October 31st marked the beginning of Middle East carrier Qatar…
Thanks to everyone who entered my giveaway for free Milepoint Premium Membership. I’m pretty excited for our new product and happy that some of my readers will get to enjoy it for free. And, if you read the title closely enough, you’ll see that…
I woke up this morning to an announcement on Milepoint by United Airlines about award chart increases. At first, I didn’t really think it was that bad. But, the more I dug into it, more I realized this was a bit of a “Black…
