When Chase refreshed the Sapphire Reserve® card and launched the Sapphire Reserve for Business℠ card last year, it did away with 1.5 cent per point (cpp) redemptions via Chase Travel℠ and replaced it with a feature called Points Boost. Points Boost gives holders of those cards the opportunity to redeem Ultimate Rewards points for 1.5cpp-2cpp […] The post Chase Points Boost is becoming a Points Bus
JetBlue and Frontier are now being flagged as the airlines most exposed if the industry’s financial pressure turns into more Chapter 11 filings. The warning makes sense as a ranking exercise — both carriers face high fuel costs, weak margins, and difficult competitive positions — but the precise bankruptcy odds look too confident, and a 'by 2027' timeline may be too aggressive.
Italian carrier ITA Airways, the newest member of the Star Alliance, is continuing its transition into the alliance — and that now appears to include award redemptions through Avianca Lifemiles. While neither airline has formally announced the partnership, Lifemiles is...
Turkish Airlines has decided to extend membership tiers of select Miles&Smiles members due to the situation around the Gulf. A LoyaltyLobby reader from Kuwait forwarded us an email that they had received from Turkish Airlines today announcing this extension, which is marked as “ELITE PLUS […]
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Emirates, Etihad, and Qatar Airways have offered extra flexibility for tickets issued after the start of the Iran War, which is currently paused, but Qatar Airways is now the first of the three to start tightening them up. Qatar Airways won’t offer fee-free changes for […]
Southwest Airlines came to Washington to unveil a patriotic “America 250” jet with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. But behind the celebration was the administration’s more urgent airline problem: Spirit needs a rescuer, and Southwest was apparently asked whether it would be the buyer.
Update 4/28/26: Apple showing up for some. Update 3/24/26: Walmart back for some Update 3/8/26: Doordash and Ebay have been added. Update 10/20/25: I’m seeing now Best Buy, Verizon, Walmart, Safeway, Home Depot, Instacart, eBay, etc. Lots of great new options, and some that were never available before. Update 10/18/25: Some seeing Home Depot and […]
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