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✈ Check Your Airline Ticket After Booking to Ensure You Weren’t Involuntarily Downgraded & More Daily News From TPG ✈
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TODAY'S POSTS: 
- Check Your Airline Ticket After Booking to Ensure You Weren’t Involuntarily Downgraded  
- 8 Tips for Flying With Kids in Business Class  
- Roadside Assistance and the Credit Cards That Offer It  
- You Can Now Resell Your Plane Tickets — on Air France  
- AA Just Made It Even Easier to Use Your Miles, Adds Three More Award Partners Online  
- Hilton Made $164 Million in Q3, Says 29k New Rooms to Come  
- Register for 20k Amex Points When You Spend $1,000 on Air Canada  
- American Airlines’ CEO Isn’t Worried About Seat-Size Regulations  
- Book the Cook Not Available on World’s Longest Flight to Singapore  
- What Are the Five Freedoms of Aviation, and How Do They Affect You? 

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Check Your Airline Ticket After Booking to Ensure You Weren’t Involuntarily Downgraded

By JT Genter on Oct 25, 2018 08:30 am
It’s always a good idea to carefully check your airline tickets for issues once they’re issued. You can catch — and correct for free within 24 hours — name misspellings, incorrect identification numbers or even booking the wrong date. Thankfully a TPG reader was diligent about checking her ticket, and by doing so, she caught an issue ...
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8 Tips for Flying With Kids in Business Class

By Angelina Aucello on Oct 25, 2018 08:00 am
With so many ways to earn and redeem miles at a great value, family travel in first or business class is a realistic goals for many families in the miles and points hobby. Though it may be a “splurge” to travel up front with kids in tow (though not always a big a splurge as ...
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Roadside Assistance and the Credit Cards That Offer It

By Katie Genter on Oct 25, 2018 07:00 am
Need a jump or help changing a flat tire? It’s likely that one or more of your credit cards provides a roadside assistance benefit that can help. The level of assistance and terms vary widely across cards — some completely cover most basic services, while others provide assistance up to a certain amount per event ...
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You Can Now Resell Your Plane Tickets — on Air France

By JT Genter on Oct 25, 2018 06:00 am
Even before the advent of no-refund basic economy tickets, most flight were effectively nonrefundable due to steep airline change fees. If you have a change of plans after booking your flights, you’re likely to lose most, if not all, of the ticket’s cost. Sure, there are services like SpareFare that let you sell your ticket ...
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AA Just Made It Even Easier to Use Your Miles, Adds Three More Award Partners Online

By JT Genter on Oct 25, 2018 12:00 am
In mid-August, American Airlines “incorrectly displayed award bookings” for five AAdvantage partners through AA.com. During a short window, members could book Cathay Pacific, Malaysian, Sri Lankan, Qatar, LATAM on AA’s website — before the ability was reverted. The next day an airline spokesperson noted that “making more award partners bookable on aa.com is something that our customers continually ask ...
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Hilton Made $164 Million in Q3, Says 29k New Rooms to Come

By Katherine Fan on Oct 24, 2018 09:30 pm
Hilton’s third quarter results are public information as of Wednesday morning, with several noteworthy highlights. The global hotel brand approved 29,200 new rooms for development in Q3, increasing Hilton’s total pipeline to 371,000 rooms – an 11% increase from 2017. Part of the growth stems from newly-announced urban lifestyle micro-hotel brand Motto by Hilton, which will launch ...
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Register for 20k Amex Points When You Spend $1,000 on Air Canada

By Zach Honig on Oct 24, 2018 08:30 pm
The Amex Offers program is easily one of my favorite credit card perks. I wouldn’t exactly call myself a “power user,” but even without going out of my way to comb through the various rebates and points-earning opportunities on a regular basis, I’ve managed to save $110 this year, in addition to earning some bonus points. ...
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American Airlines’ CEO Isn’t Worried About Seat-Size Regulations

By JT Genter on Oct 24, 2018 08:00 pm
After the groundbreaking ceremony on American Airlines’ $1.6 billion LAX construction project, I got a chance to catch up with airline CEO Doug Parker to discuss a variety of topics — from the airline’s future at LAX to the impact of the new FAA mandate to set minimum seat sizes. Let’s go through what we ...
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Book the Cook Not Available on World’s Longest Flight to Singapore

By Zach Honig on Oct 24, 2018 07:30 pm
Hoping to pick your meals from Singapore Airlines’ diverse selection of Book the Cook entrees ahead of a trip on the world’s longest flight? Assuming you’re flying from Newark (EWR) on Singapore 21, you’ll be fresh out of luck. That’s right — Singapore’s new flagship flight currently doesn’t offer the airline’s signature catering option. I’ve taken ...
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What Are the Five Freedoms of Aviation, and How Do They Affect You?

By Ethan Steinberg on Oct 24, 2018 07:00 pm
Travel and aviation intersect in a lot of places with complex international law, and often with politics as well, which can give rise to serious controversy. One element of commercial aviation is especially beneficial for American travelers, and has been in the political spotlight in the last few years. I’m talking about fifth-freedom routes, where an ...
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