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Gogo WiFi, the largest provider of inflight WiFi announced plans to to build a 5G network for aviation by 2021. Gogo has come a long way since they first starting offering WiFi, as they’ve now upgraded to 2Ku, which many of their aircrafts have today. The company claims that the new 5G network will provide…
It’s no secret that Delta has a small stake in the company, CLEAR, and a result of this partnership, they offer discounted rates for SkyMiles members, and in some airports, even have CLEAR ambassadors located in the Sky Club trying to try to sign-up new members. For those not familiar, CLEAR uses fingerprint and iris I.D.…
PointsBreaks is available now. This round of PointsBreaks will be valid for booking through August 31st, 2019. If any of these interest you, book now as the best ones tend to go first. Intercontinental Pointsbreak is now live here! In January 2018, IHG PointsBreak Got A Makeover. Now PointsBreak options include 5,000, 10,000 or 15,000 points per night properties. Book IHG PointsBreaks…
Wyndham Rewards offers a generous hotel status match and challenge for members of many of their competitor hotel programs. They will mach status from Marriott Rewards, Hilton Honors, Choice Privileges, Hyatt, IHG, Radisson Rewards, Best Western, and Omni Select Guest. To get started head over to Wyndham Rewards status match page, where you can sign…
BLADE recently announced they’ll be offering continuous helicopter flights between BLADE Lounge West and John F. Kennedy Int’l. Airport (“JFKâ€) every weekday between 7am to 7pm in both directions. Looking at the schedule it seems that they have between 1-2 flights each hour throughout the day. They’ve now expanded their continuous service from Manhattan to…
Martini Review of the Week: It’s Saturday and it’s time for the Martini Review of the Week. Take a look at this week’s top news, deals, and reviews below. Delta Air Lines continues to take on Alaska Airlines in Seattle, and are offering a special Delta Air Lines Status Match Challenge for those who have elite…
In Las Vegas, it’s not uncommon to try to tip a $20 when checking in at one of the hotels in order to score a complimentary upgrade. We decided to put the $20 front desk trick to work during a recent visit to Bellagio Hotel and Casino. The room booked was a Resort Queen room,…
Martini Review of the Week: It’s Saturday and it’s time for the Martini Review of the Week. Take a look at this week’s top news, deals, and reviews below. Hilton Honors has extended their status match program through March 2021. You can match to Hilton Honors Gold and complete 4 stays in 90 days to keep…
Martini Review of the Week: It’s Saturday and it’s time for the Martini Review of the Week. Take a look at this week’s top news, deals, and reviews below. American Airlines has just announced plans to launch new service to Mexico as well as expand some Caribbean routes later this year. Highlights include adding new service…
BLADE recently announced they’ll be offering continuous helicopter flights between BLADE Lounge West and John F. Kennedy Int’l. Airport (“JFKâ€) every weekday between 7am to 7pm in both directions. Looking at the schedule it seems that they have between 1-2 flights each hour throughout the day. As an update, they’ve now expanded their continuous service…
Martini Review of the Week: It’s Saturday and it’s time for the Martini Review of the Week. Take a look at this week’s top news, deals, and reviews below. Delta Air Lines has been rolling out an international Premium Economy product on new and retrofitted aircraft in their fleet. This cabin offers a more spacious seat…
American Express is offering a 30% transfer bonus to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club now through July 1, 2019. If you’re looking for ways to maximize this, you’ll want to consider booking Delta flights. Virgin Atlantic has a partnership with Delta Air Lines, meaning redeeming miles on Delta is fairly easy to do.  Flights operated by Virgin Atlantic and booked…
This is an interesting new partnership between Wyndham and Doordash where you can earn Wyndham points when you place Doordash orders. You can also get free delivery when you order to your Wyndham Hotel. Doordash is awesome! I use them all the time. If you haven’t tried Doordash yet, you can score a discount off your first order…
As reported by Finance.yahoo.com, a “newly constructed Escape Lounge” is now open and welcoming passengers in Southern California’s Ontario International Airport (ONT). The first Escape Lounge located in Terminal 2 has been open since January. Amex Platinum benefits are numerous ranging from elite status, airline fee credits, uber credits, lounge access and more. When it comes to…
Amazon Prime members rejoice! Amazon is spending a reported $800 million dollars to bring their operations up to a standard that will support a standard 1 day shipping option for Amazon Prime members versus the 2-day standard. That’s right! Amazon CFO says,  â€We’re currently working on evolving our prime free two-day shipping program to be a…
Martini Review of the Week: It’s Saturday and it’s time for the Martini Review of the Week. Take a look at this week’s top news, deals, and reviews below. Are you jealous when you go on to social media and see all your friends posting photos of their vacations. Well, thanks to the Nevada based company,…
Delta Air Lines is a member of the SkyTeam alliance which has several Europe base airlines. These include Air France, KLM, Alitalia, Aeroflot, Czech Airlines, and Air Europa, and Tarom. With so many partners based on the continent, Delta SkyMiles offer a lot of redemption options. While Delta no longer publishes an award chart, partner…
Ever Googled something? They have an autocomplete results, which shows what is most searched for what you’re looking for. We decided to play around with this with some U.S. airlines, and here’s what we found. Here’s a look at the first result that comes up for the following airlines. How autocomplete works: Google makes…
Are you jealous when you go on to social media and see all your friends posting photos of their vacations. Well, thanks to the Nevada based company, Fake a Vacation, you can now get photos of a “fake vacation” that you can also post and show your friends. Photo packages for your fake vacation start…
16 American Airlines passengers were hospitalized after arriving in to Boston Logan International Airport yesterday morning. The passengers consisted of a school group coming back from Ecuador, with a layover in Miami. It’s unclear what caused their illness, but it’s likely it was related to while they were in Ecuador vs. on the flight itself.…