The Solution to Sleeping on Short Overnight Flights

Short overnight flights, like flying Eastbound East Coast to Europe, can be frustrating. You leave at night and arrive in the morning and have a full day ahead of you, but to really take advantage of it you need to sleep. (Here’s how I beat jet lag.) New York, DC, or Boston to London or […]

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Review: Qantas Club Melbourne MEL

We arrived at Melbourne Airport at around 12:30PM for our 2PM flight to Sydney.

There's a separate domestic terminal in Melbourne Airport, which is nice enough, though certainly not memorable.

We decided to check bags for this sector, so quickly found the business class queue, where there was no wait.

The agent that helped us was friendly, and had our boarding passes and baggage tags printed within moments.

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How Do You Estimate Travel Time from Lounge to Gate?

TPG reader Precia tweeted me to ask: @thepointsguy- “I’m new to lounges; how do you make sure you get from the lounge to your gate in time for your flight?” This question hits home for me because I often fly out of New York, and the Centurion Lounge at LaGuardia Airport is located before security,...



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Hope, Assumptions, and Expectations (Hint: Only One Is Good for You)

“You have got to have hope. But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud … You must not let your hope turn into expectation.” -Wendell Berry Assumptions are typically unhelpful and can lead to disappointment. When we assume, we convert our own beliefs and perceptions into a general…



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Review: Battle House Renaissance in Mobile, Alabama (and My Strangest Taxi Experience)

I spent Thursday night at the Battle House Hotel, a Marriott Renaissance property. It was booked at my host’s $99 rate there, so a fantastic value for arguably the nicest hotel in town and certainly the nicest one near my morning meeting. The lobby of the hotel is fairly grand. When I checked in my […]

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A Baby Leatherback Turtle Crawling to the Sea for the First Time on Dominica

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How To Search Gulf Air Award Availability

One of American's lesser known partner airlines is Gulf Air, which I recently flew in business class between London and Bahrain. The ticket between Europe and the Middle East cost just 30,000 miles one-way in business class, which is quite a good deal.

I was pleasantly surprised by Gulf Air's onboard product, between their flat beds and onboard chef. While I don't think they're quite to the level of Emirates, Etihad, or Qatar Airways, they're a solid option, especially given how much award availability they release.

I've been asked a few times how to search award availability for travel on Gulf Air, given that the space doesn't show on the websites of any of Gulf Air's partner airlines.

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Reader Success Story: $5.00 Wedding Travel from Chicago to NYC, The Icing and the Cake

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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Strange Bushes in China

4K Video on the Inspire I’ve been shooting more and more video with my DJI Inspire at 4K. It’s really cool and amazing to watch on the big screen… so smooth and amazing, really! At first I thought 4K video was a bit overkill, but I gotta admit, I’m getting kind of used to it! […]



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Economy class gets an upgrade – or is it a downgrade?

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“He’s Famous in Airport Lounges” and the Upcoming DFW Lounge Crawl

I had an interesting check-in experience at the American Express Centurion Lounge in Dallas last week. I’ve come to expect meeting readers in airport lounges, it’s great fun and I’m fortunate it seems to happen in almost every lounge — whether it’s the Singapore Airlines Private Room or the American Airlines Admirals Club in Austin, […]

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I Flew United Again.. and Liked It!

I flew American into Mobile, Alabama. But to stick with them for the return I’d have had to spend an extra 3 hours in the airport. That’s way too much time to spend in the MAA Executive Lounge. There were Delta options, but they were at least 50% more expensive. Now, I made a point […]

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Weekly Review: January 17, 2015

Hello from somewhere over the Atlantic!

This week I flew to Doha for the Qatar A350 inaugural flight, and will have a full report in the coming days. If you're following me on Instagram or Facebook you already know there were some interesting personalities on board, and I have some great stories.

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If You’re Flying on Awards and Cheap Tickets, You’re Not Bad for the Environment

Tyler Cowen once wrote that when you fly, you may be more expensive for airlines operating more flights, and concomitant emissions. A simple model of route expansion is that higher demand increases the number of total flights by some probability. For the system as a whole, the decisive flying unit has to come somewhere and […]

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Best Etihad A380 First Apartment Seats?

There are abundant opportunities at the moment to redeem miles for Etihad’s incredible A380 First Apartments.

This is the case both between Abu Dhabi and London, as well as between Abu Dhabi and Sydney, once that route begins to be operated by an A380 starting in June.

So for the past couple of weeks I’ve been asked on a daily basis what the best A380 First Apartment seats are.

Etihad’s A380 First Apartment cabin is innovative, as it features just a single aisle.

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