Now live: Capital One’s Lifestyle Collection for hotels

Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information. Capital One launched its first luxury hotel program — the Premier Collection — in January, joining the ranks of well-established hotel programs by American Express, Chase and Citi. Now, another new hotel program from Capital One Travel has gone live: the Lifestyle Collection. This new collection is…

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Who should (and shouldn’t) get the American Express Platinum?

Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information and offers. The Platinum Card® from American Express packs a lot of punch into its metal shell. That shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, given that it’s among the heaviest and most expensive of the publicly available premium credit cards. While the current welcome offer alone…

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JetBlue’s 1st Amsterdam flight is in the books; what it was like on the inaugural

Editors’ note: JetBlue provided TPG with a free one-way business-class ticket for the inaugural Paris route. All opinions expressed here are the author’s alone and were not subject to review by JetBlue. As the saying goes, persistence pays off. And that’s a lesson that JetBlue Airways learned on Tuesday when its inaugural Flight 2288 to Amsterdam took off from…

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