Houston will soon be getting a new long haul airline, offering affordable flights across the Pacific…ZIPAIR adding Tokyo Narita to Houston routeJapanese low cost carrier, and Japan Airlines subsidiary, will be launching flights between Tokyo Narita (NRT) and Houston (IAH). Specifically, the service will launch as of March 4, 2025, and will operate 4x...

Loyalty programs are big businesses, and they can be lucrative both for travel brands and consumers. As you might expect, this also means that the loyalty industry has quite a bit of fraud from many parties. This is definitely more rampant and organized in some markets than others. Along those lines, a FlyerTalk member wrote a fascinating post...

As an aviation geek, I love listening to air traffic control audio, and always enjoy the VASAviation YouTube channel, which does a great job covering noteworthy air traffic control interactions. The channel has just uploaded a video involving interactions with an air traffic controller at a (primarily) general aviation airport. The guy starts...

With the number of people who fly every day, some people do (tragically) pass away in the skies. However, one death yesterday was particularly noteworthy, as it was the captain of a flight. Turkish A350 captain passes away on Seattle to Istanbul flight As reported by The Aviation Herald, this incident happened on Tuesday, October 8, 2024,...

Link: Apply now for the Citi® / AAdvantage Business™ World Elite Mastercard® American Airlines has co-branded credit cards issued by both Barclays and Citi. In this post, I wanted to take a look at the Citi® / AAdvantage Business™ World Elite Mastercard®, which is the only small business card in the portfolio that’s currently open to applicants....

A couple of weeks ago, it was announced that SkyTeam and Eurostar are launching a partnership, which the alliance claimed was its first non-airline partnership of the sort. Well, SkyTeam has now announced plans to partner with a second train operator, and there might even be reciprocal points opportunities.Details of the SkyTeam & Trenitalia partnershipSkyTeam...