The card is clearly worth getting for this bonus offer alone. And its $99 annual fee is worth it on an ongoing basis, because you receive an anniversary free night for IHG Hotels & Resorts. And, when cardholders redeem points for a consecutive four-night IHG hotel stay, the fourth redemption night is free. That benefit can be huge. And cardmembers receive automatic Platinum Elite status, which they keep as long as the card remains open.
Hilton has a new property system coming onboard to merchandise various aspects of your stay. One of the things they’re standardizing is how hotels upsell late check-out. The price for a confirmed late checkout will be set by brand.
A Tropic Air flight from Corozal Town to San Pedro in Belize was hijacked by an American brandishing a knife this morning. He seized control of the small Caravan aircraft and held it “at the mercy” of his threats. The morning flight carried 11 passengers, and shortly after takeoff, 49‑year‑old Californian Akinyela Sawa Taylor approached the cockpit with a knife and ordered the pilot to stay in the air until the aircraft ran out of fuel The plane looped south toward Belize City, then out over Caye Caulker, Caye Chapel and San Pedro, before the airport became alerted to the crisis. Despite the threats, the pilot managed a safe unplanned landing in Belize City. Two passengers suffered knife wounds during the confrontation and were rushed to nearby hospitals; one remains in critical condition following surgery.…
Southwest Airlines is known for the games people play to secure the best seats, because the airline doesn’t assign seats – it’s first-board, first-served. That’s changing next year, and it’ll throw a crimp not just in passenger shenanigans angling for extra space, but flight attendants doing the same thing too.
American Airlines has suspended codesharing with LEVEL, the low cost transatlantic carrier within IAG, parent of British Airways, Iberia and Aer Lingus.
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A young child reportedly stabbed another passenger with a fork on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to New York JFK, while her mother slept. The girl roamed the aisle. Already disruptive during the flight, her behavior escalated when she approached a passenger holding a metal fork and jabbed her without warning.
On Tuesday evening, Frontier Airlines Flight 3506 from Orlando was coming in to land in San Juan when the Airbus A321neo touched down hard on runway 10. Passengers described it as “shocking” and “horrible.”
An airline passenger is going viral after a flight attendant asked her to stop knitting during a flight. The crewmember suggested that having needles during an emergency could be risky.
The woman shows the moment she had to stow her knitting project after the flight attendant urged her to consider whether she’d really want to grip sharp objects if trouble struck at cruising altitude. She couldn’t finish the sock.
Before Bilt, most people did not earn rewards for their single largest expense. Soon they’ll offer points for paying mortgages, too.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
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