Trip Planning
Travel Into the Holidays With the Monos Suitcase ⚡
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It’s the Golden Age of Suitcases, in our opinion, because there has never been more choice available for picking a suitcase with wheels that fly, with personal and baggage carousel distinction.
What Is WhatsApp Web and How Do You Use It?
Using a keyboard is sooo much easier than being constricted to three inches to tap out that rant (or sharing how great that Popeye’s chicken sandwich really is).1
Cash App Is Offering 5% Discounts On Airbnb and Lyft
It’s easy to get stuck in the Venmo rut, but Cash, the Square-owned competitor, has always sweetened the pots by offering noticeable discounts to its users.
How To Use a Friend as an ATM Machine
Quite not like that, but if you’re interested in getting cold, hard cash, and avoiding ATM withdrawal fees, this might be the ticket.
Does Bringing Food on a Plane Count Toward the Carry-On Limit?
Presumably, this food is for eating. Because there are soooo many good reasons to bringing own food onboard to eat, instead of succumbing and paying for something three times more than it should.
How To Get Free Flight Cancellation for Flights Outside the U.S.
Verified: June 4, 2019This hack has been verified by our editors. Please note things may change.
Most travelers know it is possible to cancel a flight for free within 24 hours inside the U.S., but most don’t know it is also possible to do for flights departing outside the U.S.
Lufthansa, SWISS and Austrian To Offer Customer Service Through Messenger
Finally, a little bit of tech-forwardness. Twitter customer service is so dead.
The United Kingdom Opens Its Electronic Passport Gates To More Nationalities
Updated: May 20 & June 4, 2019Per an official statement, the electronic gates are open to citizens of the seven countries listed starting May 20. On June 4, our editors were able to independently verify that this was in effect at London Gatwick Airport (LGW), where customs officers were actively redirecting qualifying passengers toward the ePassport gates.
One Mile at a Time recently reported this fortuitous change in the UK’s immigration process: Starting June 2019, the automated e-gates at immigration in all UK airports will be available to passport holders from seven new countries, including the U.S.
The countries included on the list are:
- Australia
- Canada
- Japan
- New Zealand
- Singapore
- South Korea
- United States
It is already available to UK, EU, EEA or Swiss passports. It is not known if the new countries will kick in on June 1, or sometime later during the month of June.
Essentially, this means these citizens are now eligible to use the ePassport gates, which use biometric scanning and a camera to get through immigration instead of speaking to a live, customs officer.
Though the UK has a Registered Traveller program through which select passport holders were able to use these (for a cost, like a whopping £70 or $96.83 USD per year), that simply won’t be the case anymore.
(Portugal already offers this service to electronic passport holders, and I was able to use this recently while exiting the country. Hong Kong also offers this to its residents. I’d love to see more and more countries begin to offer this, instead of jumping in a ginormous, inefficient line.)
Probably a countermeasure against Brexit, or something.
