JetBlue Founder’s New Airline, Hope for Silver Medallion Elites Upgrades, American Cancellations and More
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Each Saturday, we round up news stories that you might have missed from the week before. Here’s the top miles, points and travel news you might have missed on TPG this week.
JetBlue’s Founder May Start a New US Airline
David Neeleman, founder of JetBlue, sent out hints that he may be starting a new airline in the US – and it may be here in 2020.
Keep Faith, Silver Medallion Elites: You Too Can Upgrade to First Class
TPG shared a few ways Silver Medallion Elites can make it to an upgraded seat, since it typically seems impossible.
American Airlines Flight Cancellation Meltdown at CLT
American’s technical issues meant so many cancellations.
Why I Don’t Set up Autopay on My Credit Cards
Some fraudulent charges slipped by Editor-at-Large, Zach Honig, and he accidentally paid them. You can avoid this.
A Magical Experience: Flying a Kenmore Air Seaplane From Seattle to Orcas Island
TPG’s Ravi Ghelani reviewed an adventurous seaplane flight from Seattle to Orcas Island.
Norwegian Enters Canada With New Routes to Europe and the French Caribbean
Norwegian Air is adding new routes from Canada.
The Best Travel Rewards Credit Cards of 2018
We broke down the best credit cards for travel this year.
10 Tips for Using the Chase Ultimate Rewards Travel Center
Ultimate Rewards Travel Center isn’t that user friendly, so we spelled out a few ways you can get the most value for the resource.
Greece’s Aegean Places $5.8 Billion Order for A320neo and A321neo
Now that’s a lot of zeros.
Delta Will Be the Launch Operator of Revamped CRJ Series Aircraft
Delta’s rolling out the new CRJ regional jets – and they’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars on them.
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