Travel Week in Review – December 23rd, 2022

That’s not a typo. All that you need to do to earn those bonus points is pay the $99 annual fee and then use the card just once. That could be as little as a coffee or a pack of gum. If it were me, I’d be buying a beer or two instead to celebrate an easy points haul. The AAdvantage® Aviator® Red World Elite Mastercard® is currently offering 60,000 bonus points after spending…well, any amount on the card within the first three months.  Read More…

Seven in 10 U.S. adults have plans to travel in the next 12 months, and those who do expect to journey to all corners of the globe. Each month, Morning Consult gives consumers with leisure travel plans a blank space to say where they are most excited to go in the next year, and responses gathered between June and November reveal that, while the traditional mainstays remain popular, Americans’ travel plans are actually quite varied. Read More…

Delta Air Lines will start to implement free WiFi on its planes beginning in the new year. Delta CEO, Ed Bastian, has also said going back as early as 2018 that he wants WiFi to be free on planes — but it’s no simple thing to achieve, technologically speaking. It can cost millions of dollars just to equip one airplane with high-speed internet. It’s certainly not cheap. It depends a lot [more] on the actual hardware than it does on just flipping a switch and going, ‘Okay, can we make it free?’ Read More…