Sometimes it pays to avoid highways with electronic tolls — especially when renting a car. After driving around Texas while conscientiously avoiding all the electronic toll gates in order to not be required to pay a $14.75 “convenience” fee, FlyerTalk member Jorgen eventually received a bill from Avis for $1.30 in actual tolls plus a $14.75 convenience fee. Although being fairly certain that Jorgen did not pass through any electronic toll collection points...

Starting today, take advantage of The Great Getaway sale of 2012 at participating hotel and resort properties of Hilton Worldwide by booking your reservation by July 23, 2012 and concluding your last stay by September 30, 2012 — although different regions have their own availability and terms, as posted at the official Internet web site of Hilton...

A popular promotion which was first reported here last year at The Gate is returning for an encore: the first 100,000 Club Carlson Gold Points frequent guest loyalty program members who complete the registration for the Big Night Giveaway Promotion will receive 50,000 bonus Gold Points after the completion of his or her qualifying stay at any Radisson or Radisson Blu hotel property worldwide from May 15, 2012 through July 15, 2012, which is the date by when check-out of a qualifying stay must be completed — and FlyerTalk members are excited about this upcoming promotion. Bonus Gold Points are...

Only $345.00 more is needed before midnight Pacific Daylight Time tonight to reach the revised goal of $6,000.00 worth of donations to the Jason Dahl scholarship fund. Will FlyerTalk members come through with this challenge? Everyone who donates will be entered into a...

You sit in that uncomfortable chair located at the desk in your hotel room suffering through accessing that unbearably slow Internet service for which you paid an exorbitant amount of money — and even then, plugging in your laptop computer or smartphone device is a chore because of the elusive electrical outlet. The poor lighting in the room does not help in finding it — unless you count that really bright light from the illuminated sign located outside your hotel room window which the curtains are unable to completely block out. Does this scenario sound familiar? Can you relate to it, or at least portions of it? FlyerTalk has collaborated with Frequent Business Traveler magazine on...

Donate to the Jason Dahl scholarship fund and you will be entered into a drawing for you and a friend to have a chance to win the opportunity to ride in the oldest surviving aircraft flown by American Airlines, a 1931 Stinson SM-6000-B Trimotor airplane, also known as Ship #NC-11153. The ride will be donated by Greg Herrick in whose private collection the vintage airplane resides. The goal is to collect a minimum of $3,000.00 for this very worthwhile charity — and your chances of winning this ride could be better than your chances of getting upgraded on certain flights, as the odds are approximately one in 510. FlyerTalk members once again not only answered the call but already significantly exceeded the goal, as the scholarship drive is now at $5,025.00 — and if a minimum of $6,000.00 is raised before May 11, 2012, the owner of the Stinson Tri-Motor aircraft will add another passenger to the ride. If you are the raffle winner...

American Airlines — which currently sports the oldest livery for an airline in the United States — is considering the first major modernization of its livery since the 1930s. One notable reason for the consideration is that the fuselage of the new Boeing 787 “Dreamliner” aircraft — the first of which is scheduled to be delivered to American Airlines sometime in 2014 — is comprised of composite plastic materials that cannot be polished similarly to the aluminum exterior of other aircraft. The polished metal look is an integral part of the current livery of the fleet of aircraft of American Airlines. There is also the question...

There are those FlyerTalk members who believe that “bloggers” are ruining FlyerTalk by posting little-known and obscure offers publicly to the point where too many people take advantage of those offers, causing them to end sooner than later — especially if the offers are in error in some form. Further, they especially eschew the practice of some of the “bloggers” who...

You will receive your choice of Mercedes-Benz vehicles if you open a certificate of deposit account with a minimum balance of $1,000,000.00 at C1 Bank for five years. You get to choose from one of the following 2012 Mercedes-Benz models...