Airlines offer shortcuts to elite status. Does this affect their connection with their customers? What can other brands learn from airline and cruise loyalty programs?

United Airlines has just dropped its new wave of status match applications for 2025, giving travelers the chance to enjoy ...

That limits the airline's ability to depend solely on conventional frequent flyer program models that work based on ...

There's a lot of complication to airline status, miles and points. For United's program, you need "Premier qualifying flights," literally legs of a flight. So to qualify for Silver this year ...

Over the holidays, my uncle-in-law asked my husband and I about our big year of travel: A honeymoon across Australia and New ...

European discount carrier Norse Atlantic Airways just announced a new California route for next summer from LAX to Athens.

It's the first test of the airport's "use-it-or-lose-it" formula adopted in the lease deal that ushered in the $6.1 billion terminal project.

Several flights to and from Washington D.C. have been canceled at the Columbia Metropolitan Airport (CAE) following a deadly ...

Some American Airlines flights in and out of the International Jetport were canceled Thursday after a deadly plane crash in ...

Looking for a shortcut to United Airlines MileagePlus Premier status? Here's how travelers with another airline status can ...