Alberto Riva

3 days ago | upgradedpoints.com | Alberto Riva

The Accor hotel chain, owner of some celebrated brands plus a slew of midscale properties, has a promotion offering a 50% bonus when converting some airline miles to its ALL – Accor Live Limitless points, available for a limited time. Let’s look at whether this promotion might make sense for you. French-based Accor is the largest hotel chain in Europe, boasting more than 5,100 hotels in 110 countries worldwide.

5 days ago | upgradedpoints.com | Alberto Riva

In this week’s roundup of airline news, stories from the past 7 days that didn’t get their own story range from legacy network airlines to low-cost upstarts, and we’re covering the globe. Let’s start our tour of the air travel world. United Airlines, the second U.S. legacy airline to report first-quarter financial results after Delta Air Lines, had a net income of $387 million, compared to a net loss of $124 million in the same period in 2024.

1 week ago | upgradedpoints.com | Alberto Riva

Level, the low-cost, long-haul airline of the IAG group headed by British Airways and Iberia, is in the process of becoming its own independent carrier. So far, it had been simply a brand operated by Iberia — in Level colors but with Iberia planes and crews. A consequence of this transition is that passengers who booked Level flights through American Airlines in May may be rebooked on a different airline in the same loyalty ecosystem.

1 week ago | upgradedpoints.com | Alberto Riva

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1 week ago | upgradedpoints.com | Alberto Riva

Google Flights is far and away the best search engine for flights, but it has lacked an important feature: It does not allow users to filter out basic economy. That has been the 1 true limitation of an otherwise very useful site. Now, that’s changing. Google has introduced filters that let users weed out basic economy fares when searching for a flight. Not everybody can see them, though. It appears to still be a test, and you may not be in the target audience. Let’s look at how this works in practice.