If you were planning on paid stays at a Marriott anyway, United is currently offering a bonus for gift card purchases: You can earn up to 7,500 award miles  through the following methods: Anyone taking advantage of this? Disclosure: I don’t really stay at Marriotts.  It isn’t anything against them.  …

I’ve been looking for a good travel map–especially one to help me document my travels around the USA. (I want to hit all 50 states!) But the traditional kind is a little boring to me: Even with those little pins in it, it’s hard to tell how much of the …

George Hobica of Airfarewatchdog.com has a great article today on older airplanes. …the skies are full of older planes—DC-9s, 717s, early versions of the 757 and 767 and 737, to name a few. This is not to say that old planes are unsafe. That’s simply not true. But newer planes …