As of January 18, 2012, Priority Club frequent guest loyalty program reward levels at approximately 25 percent of InterContinental hotel properties worldwide will increase. This means that — with the exception of Holiday Inn Club Vacations — there will be multiple reward night points levels within all InterContinental hotel brands. For example, Crowne Plaza hotels — which used to only have a 25,000-point level — has now added a 35,000-point level for certain properties. However, the Priority Club point level requirements for approximately 20 percent of InterContinental hotel properties are reportedly also decreasing, primarily at...

Earn 50 bonus Aeroplan frequent flier loyalty program miles just by registering your Costco and Aeroplan member account number via the Internet through January 29, 2012. To receive the 50 bonus Aeroplan frequent flier loyalty program miles, you must...

FlyerTalk member chrissxb has submitted a proposal to create a forum for The Gate weblog. Within that proposal is a discussion of a variety of comments regarding The Gate, including the fact that the Comments area of The Gate is currently disabled. For the record, I — as well as Internet Brands, the company which owns FlyerTalk — are and have been aware of this issue. We want for the Comments area to be enabled. However...

30-year-old United States Army sergeant first class Trey Scott Atwater — who is a demolitions expert and a member of the Green Berets — was arrested recently at Midland International Airport in Texas, causing an evacuation of that airport for approximately an hour. Sergeant Atwater — who claims that he did not notice the powerful C-4 explosives while packing his carry-on luggage — is being held on a federal charge of...

A vote by the TalkBoard pertaining to limiting the time FlyerTalk members may serve on the TalkBoard passed on December 26 2011. A FlyerTalk member is ineligible to be a candidate in a TalkBoard election if by the end of the election period he or she will have served on the TalkBoard for greater than...

Book a reservation from now through January 31, 2012 and stay any weekend night between January 9, 2012 and December 30, 2012, and you could save from 20 percent up to 33 percent on your stay at participating Hilton Worldwide properties around the world. Additionally, for each stay of at least two nights...

This is a bittersweet time of year for many FlyerTalk members as the qualification miles for elite status in their frequent traveler accounts — in many cases, anyway — have reset back to zero. Unless they have earned lifetime elite status, January 1 of each year represents the date where those FlyerTalk members who wish to attain continuous elite status must start all over again, concocting ways of earning elite qualification miles, whether by...

Register for the Hilton HHonors promotion for the first quarter of 2012 and you will earn 1,000 bonus Hilton HHonors frequent guest loyalty program points per night of an eligible stay, or 5,000 bonus Hilton HHonors points per eligible weekend stay of two nights or more at participating Hilton Worldwide hotels and resorts around the world from January 1, 2012 through March 31, 2012. A weekend stay is defined as...

As first reported here by The Gate, members of TalkBoard were voting on whether or not FlyerTalk should have a forum dedicated to Texas — and the vote was...