Here’s How to Know If You Can Get All the Big Mileages Bonuses for Business Cards

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Review: Emirates First Class A380 Los Angeles To Dubai

My dad and I connected from Tampa same day, so we didn't use Emirates' chauffeur service, which is complimentary for first and business class passengers. Upon arrival we headed over to Tom Bradley International Terminal, where our Emirates flight was departing from. Emirates check-in is in Hall B, and opens at 11:30AM, so we were there right as it opened.

Emirates uses the Korean Air Lounge at LAX, which I've reviewed in the past. It's a really mediocre lounge -- definitely the least nice of the major three alliance lounges. The food spread is really lacking for an international first class lounge, and they don't even have champagne.

Fortunately Emirates plans to open their own lounge at LAX, and I'm told it should open later this month. While I'm not generally blown away by Emirates' outstation lounges, I'm sure it will be a big improvement over the current setup.

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What Should an Airline Do When Its IT System Goes Down?

If you answered, “don’t send all of your passengers by bus to another airport over 160 miles away, only to have them turned away and sent back” then you’d be correct. Apparently, though, that wasn’t the answer given for a Parkistan International Airlines flight from Lahore to Riyadh. Administration of Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore […]

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Etihad Passengers Stranded On Tarmac For 12 Hours

There has been some crippling fog in the UAE the past few days which has caused some serious operational disruptions for both Emirates and Etihad.

While major disruptions for an airline with just one hub are bad enough, it's especially bad right after New Years, when flights are presumably packed to the gills.

One story making the rounds is about yesterday's Etihad flight from Abu Dhabi to San Francisco, which was delayed on the tarmac in Abu Dhabi for 12 hours. Combined with a 16 hour flight time, that made for a 28 hour journey.

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Amazing Collage of Snapshot-Created City Maps by Japanese Artist

File under: ultimate collage art. I recently stumbled on these amazing maps by Japanese artist Sohei Nishino. For each of them, he uses up to 4,000 photographs, culling and cutting them into the finished product. I’m a sucker for great maps, and I always love seeing when someone devotes years of their life to producing…



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American Express Losing a Transfer Partner. And I Don’t Care.

Travel With Grant reports that American Express Membership Rewards will lose Frontier Airlines as a transfer partner on March 5. And all I can say is.. who cares? Even before Frontier became a true low cost carrier (there’s even a fee to use your miles within 6 months of travel, and they don’t publish their […]

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London To Dallas Flight Diverts… Twice…

I flew with American out of London yesterday, and it looks like I chose the right flight.

American 51 from London to Dallas was scheduled to depart London at 11:15AM and arrive in Dallas at 3:45PM. Well, that didn't happen.

Apparently there was a medical emergency which caused the flight to divert to Iceland. Per aa.com:

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Reader Success Story: Get Us to Greece!

Over the years, we’ve had many readers share their success stories with us. Folks for whom traveling domestically once a year was a luxury are now traveling the world with just a few credit card sign-up bonuses. And the best part? They are sharing their stories with us and others who benefit from knowing that […]



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Should I Change My Loyalty from Delta to American?

TPG reader Kane emailed me to ask: “I’m considering a switch from Delta to American, and came across your blog post from two years ago about your dilemma making the change. I was wondering what your thoughts are now that US Airways is merging with American, and considering all the recent changes Delta has made. […]



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Eating and Entertainment Like a Singapore Local

Must-read Earlier Installments: Singapore, Cathay, and Qantas First Class.. Some of the Best Meals of My Life, and a Tour of Hyatts in Bangkok, Singapore, and Sydney Inside the New Oneworld Lounge at LAX’s Tom Bradley International TerminalCathay Pacific First Class, Los Angeles – Hong Kong Cathay Pacific “The Wing” First Class Lounge, Hong Kong […]

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Frontier Being Removed As Amex Membership Rewards Transfer Partner

In terms of things that aren't really much of a loss...

Via Travel with Grant, Frontier EarlyReturns will be discontinued as a US American Express Membership Rewards transfer partner as of March 5, 2015:

"Effective March 5, 2015, Frontier Airlines will no longer be a point transfer airline in the Membership Rewards program. Any Membership Rewards point transfers for Frontier Airlines must be made by March 4, 2015. These transfers will be considered final, non-refundable, and subject to the EarlyReturns® program terms and conditions. To transfer points to Frontier, please visit membershiprewards.com/travel."

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13 endangered species in 2015

We have only ourselves to blame.



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Streamy, Dreamy Clouds over Hobbiton

14 Cold Nights in Antarctica As my Antarctic trip begins in earnest, I decided to make a special Pinterest Board called 14 Cold Nights in Antarctica for inspiration! Amazing Cloud Names Do any of you know a good website that has a bunch of photos of clouds and their names? I’m not a big “this-is-called-that” […]



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Here’s a little uncommon sense about traveling in 2015

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Man Builds Flight Simulator For His 2 Year Old, and How to Become a Skyboss

News and notes from around the interweb: Virtuoso’s flutes destroyed by US customs What Ferran Adria is doing now. He closed El Bulli because of the ‘pressure’ of repeating himself. My framing, not his, is that it was the JohN Stuart Mill problem: when you’ve accomplished everything there is by a young age, what point […]

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