Written by Traveling For Miles @ BoardingArea
If you’re a British Airways flyer based in the United States, the airline showed its disdain for your loyalty a little while ago when it increased the surcharges for award travel originating on this side of the pond without any notice. Now, in what app…
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This is the new Finnair Premium Economy cabin
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Earlier today I wrote about Finnair revealing an entirely new Business Class cabin but, arguably, the bigger news of the day was that Finnair has also said that it will be fitting a Premium Economy cabin to all of its long-haul aircraft for the first t…
Alliance-wide upgrades coming to oneworld in 2022…apparently
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We’ve been hearing rumors of alliance-wide upgrades coming to the oneworld alliance since well before the pandemic so the fact that these are being discussed isn’t news. What *is* news is that we’re now expecting to finally see these upgrade options be…
United Airlines announces expanded Cape Town service (Business Class awards available)
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After a long hiatus brought about by the pandemic, United Airlines restarted its route between Newark and Cape Town in December last year with the same 3x/week seasonal service that it used before the travel world closed down. Now and with passenger nu…
Chase Sapphire Preferred Card Review (2022)
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The Chase Sapphire Preferred Card is one of the cards that gets a lot of people started in the miles and points world, and when you consider the card’s relatively low annual fee together with the benefits that it offers and the power that the card has …
Finnair unveils its new Business Class Cabin
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Finnair has been teasing this for weeks, but today the teasing ended and the airline finally unveiled its new Business Class cabin, a reworked Economy Class cabin, and announced that it will be introducing a long-haul Premium Economy cabin for the firs…
Buy Virgin Atlantic Points with a 60% or 70% bonus (potentially a great deal)
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Virgin Atlantic’s has brought back the same points sale that we saw it running in December and for once, a lack of innovation is a good thing as this is one of the best deals that we’ve ever seen the airline offer. All Virgin Atlantic Flying Club membe…
A look at the American Airlines Flagship Lounge at New York JFK (mostly pictures)
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Recently, I passed through New York JFK on my way to Europe so as I had a little time to kill and as I needed somewhere comfortable to do some work, I dropped by the American Airlines Flagship Lounge in Terminal 8 to see what it was like now that a lot…
Alaska Airlines will expand & upgrade select lounges in Seattle & Portland
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Alaska Airlines has just announced what it’s calling “a significant, multi-million dollar renovation and expansion of [its] most popular Lounges” which will see select lounges in Seattle and Portland get a short-term makeover before, longer-term, they’…
New Sale: Buy 300,000 IHG Rewards Points At 0.5 Cents Each
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Today, IHG has launched a new points sale in which it’s offering customers the opportunity to buy up to 300,000 points at a cost of just 0.5 cents per point. Despite the unexpected annoying devaluation that IHG sprung on members last year, this sale ca…
Earn 20 Bonvoy Points per dollar with Marriott’s Homes & Villas (Limited Time Offer)
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Homes and Villas by Marriott launches a new promotion today in which it’s offering quadruple points on select stays booked by the end of 11 February 2022. Neither the booking period nor the period in which stays have to be consumed is particularly long…
Buy United Airlines Miles at just 1.88 cents each (and with an increased purchase limit)
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United Airlines has launched a new mileage sale in which, once again, it’s offering MileagePlus members the chance to buy miles with a bonus of up to 100%. This sale, however, looks a little bit more interesting than some of the other sales that United…
Amex launches a checking account that earns interest and Membership Rewards Points
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It has been a while since we last saw a debit card that offered holders the chance to earn a valuable rewards currency (the Dodd-Frank Act signed the end of most such cards) but now Amex appears to be resurrecting just such a product with its introduct…
Save 15% on TAP Business & Economy Class bookings to Italy (USA, UK & More)
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Apparently, 9 February is “International Pizza” day, and to honor this fact TAP Air Portugal is offering a 15% discount on flights between Italy and, amongst others, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The sale is valid on travel origina…
ENDING TOMORROW – Select IHG credit card holders get 20% off award bookings
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For the past few weeks, IHG has been running a promotion for targeted holders of its Chase-issued credit cards in which it has been offering 20% off the cost of all awards. Sadly, the promotion is set to end tomorrow, February 8th, so there’s only a li…
My approach to international travel right now
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More and more counties are now reopening their borders to vaccinated international travelers so with more options of places to visit than at any other point in the past two years, you could be forgiven for thinking that I’m busy booking trips to all co…
Get up to $50 off on Amazon purchases with Membership Rewards Points [Targeted]
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Amazon and American Express are currently running a number of good promotions in which customers can save up to $50 on a wide variety of items from Amazon.com when they use just one Membership Rewards point to part-pay for their purchase. If you have a…
Save at select Hilton properties with these Amex offers [Targeted]
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Amex is currently targeting select cardholders with a couple of new deals which between them, offer savings on stays made with three Hilton brands in the US and US Territories as well as at all Hilton properties in Mexico. Both offers are valid through…
Accelerate your progress to Marriott Bonvoy elite status with the upcoming promotion
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The next Marriott Bonvoy promotion has been announced and although it doesn’t launch until 8 February, registration for the promotion is already open and with dozens of elite night credits on offer, this may be the first Marriott promotion in some time…
Buy Alaska Miles with a bonus of up to 60% (Targeted)
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Alaska Airlines has launched a new mileage sale in which it is offering targeted members bonuses of up to 60% when they purchase a minimum of 40,000 miles. This sale is running through 20 February so there’s no big hurry to buy and miles right away, bu…