Mastercard Black Card overview The Mastercard® Black Card™ is a premium card with decent benefits to elevate your travels. Perks include a $100 annual airline credit, reimbursement for your Global Entry or TSA PreCheck application fee and a Priority Pass Select membership. The card earns 1 point per dollar on all transactions, and points can…

London’s Heathrow Airport (LHR) will submit a proposal for a third runway to the U.K. government this summer. The airport aims to have flights take off from said runway within the next decade. The privately funded expansion will be part of a multibillion-pound investment that will also revamp LHR’s terminals 1 and 5 to increase…

Over the past several years, Barclays has made big changes to its lineup of credit cards. The biggest shift is how the United Kingdom-based company is now focusing on cobranded cards, with partners like JetBlue and Wyndham. For consumers, that means the end of Barclays’ own flexible card products, like the now-departed Barclays Arrival Plus…

Japan seems to be on everyone’s travel wish list this year. The country is home to some of the world’s best hotels and restaurants, fascinating cultural experiences and famous natural phenomena, including the annual cherry blossom season. And though it requires a long and often expensive flight (or two) to get there from the U.S.,…

Year after year, more hotels open than one can possibly imagine, from sky-high stunners set in impossibly tall buildings to off-the-beaten-path boutique hotels, and from sprawling beachside all-inclusive resorts to new iterations of the points brands we all know and love. Here at TPG, the travel team spends the first month of the year pulling…

Gastrointestinal illnesses are on the upswing this winter. Norovirus is chief among them, raising concerns for many travelers — particularly cruisers — that they might end up on the toilet instead of a sun lounger on their next vacation. Although cruises account for fewer than 1% of all annual norovirus cases in the United States,…

I’m a longtime fan of Mobile Passport Control. The app saved me from a lifetime of extensive customs lines when it seemed like I wouldn’t be able to receive Global Entry. When friends and family are traveling internationally, I consistently advise them to download the free app. However, in the last year, I’ve been getting…

Rewind a quarter-century, and it was an unglamorous time for air travel in the U.S. Some two decades after Congress deregulated the industry, gone were the glory days of inflight service at the likes of Pan Am; few passengers held rosy views of the large network airlines, from Delta, American and United to other since-shuttered…

I generally divide my credit card perks into two categories: annual statement credits or lounge access that I actively try and use to enhance my travel experience, and travel insurance and purchase protection, which I hope to never need but appreciate being able to count on when I do. But if you have a credit…

If you hold an American passport, you’re probably used to traveling internationally with relative ease. You may be surprised, then, to learn that several countries still require Americans to jump through some hoops to visit. As of February, at least 15 countries require American citizens to obtain either a tourist visa or other form of…