Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information and offers. With inflation hitting record levels lately coupled with the uncertainty we’ve experienced the last two and a half years, many people may be wondering what to do with their points and miles. Here at TPG, we strive to make the most out of our travels…
It’s no secret that Delta elite status doesn’t come cheap. After all, in addition to 125,000 Medallion Qualification Miles or 140 Medallion Qualification Segments, top-tier Diamond Medallion status requires earning $15,000 Medallion Qualification Dollars. Worse yet, this will rise to $20,000 for the 2024 status year. That means you must spend $15,000 ($1 equals 1 MQD, minus taxes) this…
The Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) is poised to receive a major transformation in the coming years. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which manages the airport, announced on Monday the selection of a master planner responsible for developing a plan to modernize the Newark airport. Global transportation planner Arup in partnership with SOM will be…
The world’s largest hotel company isn’t losing focus on all-inclusive resorts or the Caribbean anytime soon, it appears. Just days after Marriott International announced a deal to buy an affordable Mexico-based hotel chain (a move that reportedly would make it the largest hotel company in the Caribbean and Latin America), the U.S.-based hotel giant Monday revealed it was throttling…
It’s official: Carnival Cruise Line‘s Carnival Ecstasy won’t be making a comeback with another cruise operator. The still-loved, 31-year-old cruise ship, which sailed its final voyage for Carnival earlier this month, has filed a trip plan for Aliaga, Turkey, the site of a major ship scrapping operation that has become the final resting place for such notable vessels as…
Picture what an airport looks like just before a major holiday: It’s pretty easy to imagine the long lines, busy concourses and full parking lots we’ll see the night before Thanksgiving and for Christmas weekend. If you traveled this past summer, you undoubtedly experienced your share of all those things. And yet, even as we sit in the middle…
The first voyages of the biggest cruise ship ever built are now available for booking. Royal Caribbean on Monday began taking reservations for the initial sailings of its much-awaited Icon of the Seas — the first in a new series of vessels at the line that will be bigger than anything seen before in the cruise world. For now,…
Cruising at 25,000 feet above Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains, I was fulfilling a lifelong bucket list item: sitting in the captain’s seat of a jet. I was talking to air traffic control, monitoring the jet’s progress and manipulating the jet’s autopilot system. I did almost everything except actually perform the takeoff or landing of the aircraft, a Cirrus Vision…
The Virgin brand — whether at sea, up in the sky or at its hotels — is known for trendy, youthful vibes with offbeat amenities galore. Virgin’s latest hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland, might have all that … one day. However, a recent stay there, nearly four months after the hotel first opened its doors, revealed a property that feels…
CapitaLand Investment’s wholly owned lodging business unit, The Ascott Limited (Ascott) has received top honours as the ‘Leading Serviced Apartment Brand’ in Saudi Arabia, at the World Travel Awards 2022.
