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Saturday Recap: 15% Off Orbitz Hotel Stays, 5,000 Delta Miles for Donating to American Cancer Society, Linger Longer for Less with Langham, Starwood’s Pack Your Getaway Bag Contest, Southwest Airlines Porch Parties

May 11, 2013

Here’s a recap of the interesting points and miles news from this week: Orbitz offering 15% off on Hotel Stays: Orbitz is offering customers 15% off their next hotel stay when they book through their site. All you have to do is head to the Orbitz site and enter promo code SUNFUN15 when searching for hotels. This will then [...]

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TSA PreCheck Expands To Some International Itineraries

May 8, 2013

Although TSA PreCheck partners with five airlines in 40 airport locations to let trusted travelers through airport security without having to remove their shoes, laptops or liquids, until now, only travelers on domestic itineraries were eligible for it. However, the TSA announced yesterday that starting today, May 7, 2013: “In addition to domestic travel, TSA [...]

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Airport Etiquette – Is It Okay To Ditch Your Companion For TSA PreCheck?

May 1, 2013

In the security line at JFK yesterday as my mother and I prepared to depart for Chile yesterday, I was told that my boarding pass was cleared for TSA PreCheck and I faced an airport etiquette conundrum – should I abandon my mom in the longer security line and go through the much quicker PreCheck [...]

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Trusted Traveler Expedited Security Expands to 28 More Airports in 2012

February 11, 2012

Apparently the TSA’s trial Pre Check expedited security program went well enough at the seven test airports—Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami and Minneapolis—that the TSA announced it will roll out the program to an additional 28 airports throughout 2012. Though it doesn’t give details on which airlines will be participating at each, [...]

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Trusted Traveler Program Now Live – Sign up Today!

November 4, 2011

This week I flew out of Miami and saw something new – a Trusted Traveler security line that was completely empty and fully staffed. In my 20 minutes waiting in the “priority” security line, I didn’t see a single person use the line. Naively, I thought I might be eligible since I have Global Entry, [...]

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Trusted Traveler Program Update

August 21, 2011

Just got this email from Homeland Security about their much anticipated Trusted Traveler Program, which should make airport security easier for those enrolled. This is great news – if you don’t already have Global Entry, you should (especially if you have an Amex Platinum card because the $100 fee is automatically refunded!) Global Entry has historically [...]

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TSA Trusted Traveler Program On the Horizon

July 15, 2011

In May I wrote about TSA’s plans to implement a trusted traveler program – where verified travelers can get through security quicker. This program was widely applauded in the frequent flyer community and it now looks like it is one step closer to launching. Delta recently sent me the following email and based on reader [...]

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TSA Considering Trusted Traveler Program

May 10, 2011

The Wall Street Journal’s Middle Seat column reported recently that the TSA is considering rolling out an expedited security program for frequent flyers. This was music to my ears because I think our current “one size fits all” security system is out-dated, over-worked and clunky. Allowing TSA members more time on higher-risk flyers, just makes [...]

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My Thoughts on Domestic Air Travel in Spain

March 13, 2011

I’ve been in Spain for the past couple days and while this  isn’t my first time,  I have to say I’m pretty impressed with their style of travel. The facilities at  at Madrid’s new Terminal 4 and at Barcelona, were stunning. Spacious and well-designed with lots of nice shops and restaurants. In both airports, there [...]

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My Birthday Wish List

March 7, 2011

Today is my birthday and while I’ve already gotten myself a gift (a $260 roundtrip ticket to Madrid which I splurged and upgraded both directions, an Air Europa ticket to Barcelona, one night at Le Meridien Barcelona on points and two nights at the Westin Palace Madrid on cash and points), I thought I’d create [...]

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In-flight WiFi a Threat to National Security?

December 7, 2010

I mean, come on! Seriously? Apparently the Association of Flight Attendants has asked the government to ban in-flight wi-fi due to concerns that terrorists could use it to connect with bombs on an aircraft. Okay- shouldn’t we be focused on not allowing bombs on aircrafts to begin with? I love my in-flight wi-fi and I’m [...]

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My First TSA “Opt Out” Grope Down

November 28, 2010

I’ve been successful at dodging the TSA nudey machine bullet recently, but my luck ran up tonight. I was going through security in Miami Terminal D and I thought I had chosen the correct security lane- the one where everyone was going through the metal detector. This method has worked pretty well in the past, [...]

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TSA Full Body Scanners 411 (Including Images)

November 23, 2010

I haven’t had the pleasure of going through a full-body scanner yet (avoided them at Logan by using a non-elite security line- the horror!), but I know my time is limited. I wanted to see how bad they really were, so I stumbled into this Jaunted article, which did a pretty good job giving the [...]

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