I Love the Bilt Palladium Card—But the Authorized User Card Drives My Wife (and Me) Crazy
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Atmos Rewards Ascent Visa Card: Are The Perks Worth The $95 Annual Fee?
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United Will Operate 750 Daily Flights From Chicago—Leaked Slides Show Revenue Falling Nearly 3x Faster Than Elsewhere
United Airlines may be about to start losing a ton of money at Chicago O’Hare, doing ‘strategic flying’ that doesn’t make sense based on what passengers are looking to fly...
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Laughable: DHS Reverses Course, Keeps TSA PreCheck Open
Earlier, I covered how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced plans to shut down TSA PreCheck and Global Entry, due to the partial government shutdown. Well, there’s an update,...
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Is First Class Worth The Premium? Here’s How I Go About Deciding…
Over the past decade, we’ve seen airlines in the United States do a better job of monetizing premium cabins, including first and business class. Back in the day, first class...
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Spirit Airlines Passenger Brings ‘Emotional Support’ Rotisserie Chicken Through TSA—Then Eats It Onboard
A cooked chicken gives new meaning to ’emotional support animal’. A passenger carried a rotisserie chicken inside a clear pet backpack, running it through TSA screening, got a deadpan reaction...
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DCA Airport Tower Just Ditched Paper Flight Strips—Only Took FAA 43 Years [Roundup]
by Gary Leff on February 22, 2026 News and notes from around the interweb: DCA Tower replaces paper flight strips with electronic. The FAA has been trying to go electronic...
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Delta Pilot & JFK ATC Argue: “Don’t Freak Out On Me,” “I Make Mistakes”
Isn’t it kind of wild how one air traffic controller can build such a “name” for himself, and not in a good way? Delta pilot makes wrong turn at JFK,...
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Insanity: Trump Administration Suspends TSA PreCheck & Global Entry
This doesn’t strike me as being terribly logical, or as a winning strategy politically… but maybe it’ll get reversed within hours, kind of like that El Paso Airport (ELP) shut...
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Kristi Noem Suspends TSA PreCheck and Global Entry—But TSA’s Own Findings Show It Means More Staff, Less Security
In response to the government shutdown, the Department of Homeland Security is suspending Global Entry and TSA PreCheck. The premise is that with staff pay deferred until the end of...
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