US Airways Changes its Booking Classes to Line Up With American

American Airlines posted a travel agent advisory about how it has updated fare class for US Airways. For tickets issued starting today for travel beginning on September 17, US Airways has worked to align its fare classes with American. US Airways is shrinking its economy fare buckets from 15 down to 12. T, U and […]

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Bonus Starpoints For Weekday Dining

Through December 30, 2014, Starwood is offering bonus Starpoints on weekday dines at participating restaurants.

The promotion has quite a few terms and restrictions, but if you do the math it can work out pretty nicely.

The basics of the promotion are as follows:

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T Magazine: A Complete Guide to This Year’s London Design Festival

The week promises a host of mind-blowing installations by names like Barber Osberby and Zaha Hadid, plus gallery madness, curated shopping and more.

















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Hopefully Southwest Didn’t Actually PAY for Their New Paint Job’s Design

Here’s the new Southwest Airlines livery. I’m not sure what was wrong with the old one. I don’t know anyone that buys airline tickets based on the paint job of the planes. I get that you need to paint planes when airlines merge, to put the right company name on them. And the composite materials […]

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EVA Air Hello Kitty Flights To Paris Starting October 29, 2014

A few weeks ago EVA Air announced that they'll be discontinuing Hello Kitty service to Los Angeles as of October 27, 2014. That's kind of disappointing, given that they just launched Hello Kitty service to Los Angeles roughly a year ago.

For those of you not familiar with EVA Air's Hello Kitty service, they operate select flights with Hello Kitty themed aircraft. I've had the opportunity to fly this service on two occasions:

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How to navigate the child-unfriendly skies

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Above the Wolves

DJI Quadcopter Review Today’s photo is from one of them, so be sure to check out the DJI Phantom Review soon! Big Arcanum Update! Be sure to go update your Application at The Arcanum. We now have added a few new things to help future Masters find you. I know there is a HUGE number […]



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Up To 20% Off Virgin America Flights

Virgin America frequently offers "flash sales" of sorts, whereby they have promotion codes for discounted tickets valid for 1-2 days.

Through 11:59PM PT on Saturday, September 13, 2014, Virgin America is offering up to 20% off all cabins for travel this fall. Simply use promotion code HURRY20 at the time of booking.

The basic details of the promotion are as follows:

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A Simple Trick to Leverage Points With Icelandair

Icelandair is a bit of an enigma, several US flights to Iceland and beyond, not a terrible way to get to Europe and often inexpensive — and also offering the most service to an interesting destination. For a short while they had a partnership with Alaska Airlines which provided incredible value and drama, and dirt […]

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The Pan Am Experience At Air Hollywood

Never had the chance to fly Pan Am? Well, for $297 you can get a ride in their first class cabin... sort of.

Air Hollywood, which is the largest aviation themed studio for movies and TV shows, is putting on a Pan Am Experience.

Here's how it's described:

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Overlooking the Outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone

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T-Mobile Adds Free Gogo Inflight Texting

Earlier in the year, T-Mobile announced a bit of a game changer with their Simple Choice International Plan. Through this, you'd receive unlimited texting and data in 122 countries worldwide, which is really amazing for the frequent international traveler.

It looks like they're adding yet another feature which travelers should love. As of September 17, 2014. T-Mobile will be offering free in-flight texting thanks to a new partnership with Gogo:

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The Final Death of the Mileage Run

Josh Barro writes one of the best mainstream pieces on the current state of mileage runs for the New York Times. It’s a practice known as a mileage run: Buy a low-price airline ticket, in this instance $537, and fly not because you want to go anywhere, but to earn redeemable miles and progress toward […]

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I Heart My National Park: Big Bend

Crowned with a sky so wide that it threatens to define infinity, the Big Bend region of West Texas remains one of the last true frontiers in the Lower 48, a landscape unique in the world. Keene Haywood has been a frequent visitor to Big Bend National Park for the past 20 years, having formerly worked for The Nature Conservancy in the nearby Davis Mountain Preserve. Here's his insider guide to this geological wonder.



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Why I Don’t Like Suites (Sort Of)

I know, I'm a walking, breathing, contradiction, given that I've "fought" for suite upgrades many times over the years (though that was more on principle than anything else). ;)

But am I the only one that doesn't really like suites when traveling alone?

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