Boston Getting 2 Story Centurion Lounge, How To Fight Against Alaska's Phantom Award Space & Gift Card Tampering Ring Busted

January 31, 2025
Mark Ostermann

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January 31, 2025
Mark Ostermann

Travel on Point(s) is an independent, advertising-supported website. This site is part of an affiliate sales network and receives compensation for sending traffic to partner sites like Creditcards.com and Bankrate.com. This compensation does not impact how or where products appear on this site. Travel on Point(s) has not reviewed all available credit card offers on this site. Reviews, analyses & recommendations are the author’s alone and have not been reviewed, endorsed, or approved by any partner entities.

ToP Roundup

In this series I will share articles I found interesting from all over the web. These will be articles about miles, points, travel, finance and everything in-between. Hopefully this ToP Roundup series will give you some interesting tidbits and new information you may have missed during the week. If you see anything out there that you think others may find of interest please feel free to share it with me at Mark@travel-on-points.com.

Man tampered with hundreds of gift cards at Schnucks stores for Chinese crime ring, police say – St Louis Post Dispatch

Glad to see them on top of this fraud. It seems like it usually goes on years before anyone takes an interest in things like this. Hopefully more stores adopt Kroger's anti tampering display.

Boston Will Get the Newest Amex Centurion Lounge – Thrifty Traveler

This place looks like it will be pretty sweet. Nice to see Amex make this one of the larger locations too. I know everyone is tired of how small they made their lounges early on.

Southwest Is A Real Airline, New Marriott Bonvoy Offers, Alaska Partner Headaches & Flying 800+ MPH! – 20 Min Travel

The Alaska Airlines phantom space is becoming a bigger and bigger issue. We share some tips how to fight against it and hopefully avoid stranded transfers. I hope you enjoy this week's episode.