Category - Recaps

Priority Pass restaurant restriction: one visit per 24 hours by Frequent Miler. Has anybody else run into this before? Would be interesting to know if it’s actually hard coded or not. JCPenney Removes Apple Pay Support by PYMNTS... Read More →

Six Nights Free At MGM: Taking Advantage Of Hotel Status Matching by Point Me To The Plane France’s Main Pilot Union Threatens Week-Long Strike in May by NY Times.   Uber Lands $1B To Fund Advanced Technologies Unit by PYMNTS... Read More →

Alexa owners can listen to Amazon Music for free — with ads by Engadet US Airlines Incorrectly Deny 25% Of Passenger Compensation Claims by Miles to Memories. In a surprise to absolutely nobody.   Citi Shutdown: Citi Closed... Read More →

On my mind (#Bonvoyed! edition) by Frequent Miler. Greg is right in that pre-merger a lot of things went wrong IT wise, the key difference is that the customer service department were given the tools to fix those issues without a long... Read More →

Amazon Finds It’s Hard to Run a Real Sweepstakes in the Robocall Era by Bloomberg via Travel With Grant. Announcing The New Delta SkyMiles Calculator by Travel is Free. I always find this useful when trying to determine how good a... Read More →

Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa by Bloomberg. I can understand why they review the audio, but it’s still somewhat creepy. Google and Huawei agree to pay owners of faulty Nexus 6P devices up to $400 by The Verge... Read More →

Armed robbers make off with huge cash haul in Albanian plane heist by CNN International Marriott’s Arne M. Sorenson Named Chief Executive’s 2019 CEO of the Year by Chief Executive. Lol.   Yahoo Looks to Settle Huge Data Breach with... Read More →

Sinemia faces consumer pushback and a class action suit over a battery of complaints by Tech Crunch What is Chase Going to Do About These Two United Credit Card Perks? by Running With Miles. I do wonder how much Chase is consulted on... Read More →

Inflated Credit Scores Leave Investors in the Dark on Real Risks by Bloomberg. Shouldn’t really come as a surprise that credit scores are stronger when the economy is. I don’t think the scores are artificially higher than... Read More →

Wyndham Sued Over Worthless Club Membership in Arkansas by MtM Uber Eats Lands at Toronto’s Pearson Airport by Skift Table. At first I didn’t understand why the existing restaurants would allow this, but it seems it’s... Read More →

So, I Got Stabbed In Colombia by Nomadic Matt. I like how despite the negative experience it didn’t let Matt cloud his judgement of all of Colombia or even Bogota. Bogota is probably one of my favorite cities in the world and I... Read More →

Not a big fan of April fools, but I did think whoever made this fake ‘Flat Earth Society Credit Union‘ was pretty funny. What the New York Times got wrong about long-haul Amtrak travel by Freequent Flyer. Train travel always... Read More →

A Month After 2 Million Customer Cards Sold Online, Buca di Beppo Parent Admits Breach by Krebs On Security. Data breaches will continue to occur until the penalties for companies having data breached are increased. Amazon Cuts More... Read More →

Office Depot rigged PC malware scans to sell unneeded $300 tech support by Ars Technica. This is not what you like to see, obviously won’t stop me from taking advantage of this weeks Office Depot Mastercard deal though. Lawsuit... Read More →