Travel news from around the web: Alaska & Philippine Airlines Unveil Partnership: This is great news for people looking to book award travel from USA to Asia. See this post on One Mile at a Time. I’m not sure this partnership will be live in time for me to book my next flight to Asia, […]

Most of you are probably aware of the fact that Southwest program will undergo major negative changes at the end of the month. Nancy has highlighted some of them in her recent post, and today I want to focus specifically on credit expiration. As of now, Southwest credits don’t expire, but that will change very […]

I’m sure many of you have read on other blogs that people are speculatively transferring American Express Membership Rewards points to Hawaiian Airlines. Leana did it earlier this year (see this post). After hemming and hawing about it for a while, I finally pulled the trigger on this speculative transfer myself. Why Transfer Amex to […]

I know most families are still recovering from this year’s spring break trips and are focused on getting through the rest of the school year. But, now is the perfect time to start booking award flights for Spring Break 2026. Sure, it seems early. But, the early bird catches the worm, right? Most international airlines […]

I don’t normally write about shocking travel stories. But this one is all over my social media feeds since it’s local-ish to me. Yesterday, there was a brawl in Carnival’s Galveston cruise port terminal as passengers were collecting their luggage at the end of a 7-night cruise on Carnival Jubilee: Carnival’s statement to Cruise Hive […]