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After a long string of rumors and leaks that Southwest Airlines would start routes to Hawaii it’s finally official. The airline has said that they’re going to start selling tickets to Hawaii sometime in 2018 and will offer the flights soon. While the airline is saying that they’
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United Airlines has increased the bonus offer for their top of the line credit card, the United Club Card. This premium credit card from Chase features a membership to United Club, two free checked bags, and Premier Access. For the frequent United traveler this would be the perfect card in
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American Express is now offering a bonus for transferring your American Express Membership Rewards to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club Miles. This is an increase to their normal offering of a 1-to-1 transfer from Membership Rewards to Flying Club miles. This deal is great for people looking to take an upcoming
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Not all miles and points are alike, every loyalty system values their currency differently. The way that we value miles and points is a combination of our estimated cash value and overall value of the program. The actual cash value of your miles and points will change depending on when
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Parts of the Air France A380 that had it’s right outboard engine blow up enroute over the Atlantic Ocean has been found in the snow of Greenland. Flight 66 (seems ominous), was enroute from Paris (CDG) to Los Angeles (LAX) and was somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean when the
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Most of us are aware of the highly restrictive 5/24 rule that Chase imposes on select credit cards, basically meaning you cannot have 5 or more new credit cards within a rolling 24 month period. This makes it difficult for those of us in the credit card game and
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Southwest has been regularly increasing the bonus offer on their Chase co-branded credit cards. With the Southwest Rapid Rewards program it’s one of the last that still lets you earn premium features with just credit card spend. Its long been known that if you pick up two of the
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A couple of months ago we learned that American Express will become the exclusive card issuer for the Hilton credit cards. Before this announcement both American Express and Citi were issuers for the Hilton credit cards but now that Citi has been dropped it leaves the question of what’s
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Early this morning an A380 crossing the Atlantic had an uncontained engine failure. The flight was midway across the ocean when the outboard engine on the right side of the aircraft had a failure, the entire casing came off and the engine blades completely separated from the aircraft. We’ve
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By far one of the best things about the American Express Platinum cards is the access it gives you to Centurion Lounge. I will always recommend a Centurion Lounge over any other domestic air lounge. They’ve become so popular with card holders that recently American Express has been restricting
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I just received a very interesting from Marriott that seems to indicate they are putting massive restrictions on their Twitter campaign that was supposed to offer around 52,000 points per year if you took advantage of the entire program. This amount of points could equal up to a night
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A woman on a Southwest flight from Baltimore (BWI) to Los Angeles (LAX) yesterday was dragged from her flight after refusing to get off the plane. She was originally asked to deplane from her flight after she raised concerns to a flight attendant that she had a life-threatening allergy to