Get a $75 Gift Card Whe...

Intercontinental Hotels (Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, Intercontinental, Staybridge, Indigo, Candlewood Suites) is offering a $75 pre-paid gift card (you can use anywhere – not just at their hotels) when you stay 2 consecutive weekend nights between May 14th and September 3rd. You...

New OTR Resource: Best...

Just a quick note: I’ve added a tab to the top navigation to an updated chart of the best airline and hotel credit card offers. Sometimes you just want to know what the best offer is out there for a given airline, and it’s easier to go to one place than try to find it in...

New PeoplExpress Someho...

The new incarnation of PeoplExpress Airlines, which is praying that they will be able to make it as a lowfare carrier flying out of Newport News, Virginia, was fined $10,000 by the US Department of Transportation for advertising before actually being given a certificate to allow them to...

No Nonstops from US to ...

Delta has dropped its JFK-Athens service beginning in October (and running through March 2013), joining United and US Airways in eliminating nonstop service to Greece. With those routes suspended for the season, Greece will have no nonstop service from the US this winter – I...

What Happens When…...

…American Airlines sells passes for unlimited first class travel and then discovers that they’re losing money on the offer? The LA Times has a fantastic piece about how the airline started investigating its customers and ended up revoking the pass from several… (HT to...

Cimber Sterling Declare...

Danish no-frills airline Cimber Sterling has gone bankrupt and shut down its operations, stranding passengers scattered across picturesque, socially-responsible towns throughout Scandanavia. Passengers who purchased travel insurance with the airline will have their fares refunded, while...

An Overview of Business...

Just wanted to pass along a link to a really thorough article from Australian Business Traveller outlining the various kinds of Business Class seats out there and which airlines are flying each kind. I’m glad he agrees with me (and everyone else on the planet) about the (relative,...

Lufthansa to Drop First...

Lots of travelers complain about the state of Lufthansa’s current business class offering (which I’ll be taking in a few weeks and regardless of what anyone says, it’s better than being stuffed back in coach eating a tuna calzone, which I have done on that airline), but...

A Question about Luftha...

A question for readers: I’ll be flying back to New York from Frankfurt in a few weeks, and I have the option of taking either business class on a Lufthansa A380 or on a United (ex-Continental) 777. I know the A380 has the angled lie-flats that drive me nuts and the United 777 has...

BMI To Leave Star Allia...

(Hat tip to Ghetto IFE ) BMI will be leaving Star Alliance on April 18th, which isn’t surprising since they were purchased by British Airways. I can’t find any additional information, so while I’m guessing that means you will not be able to redeem some of their...