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In September 2025, we saw the Capital One mileage program add Japan Airlines Mileage Bank as its newest transfer partner. We’ve just seen the program introduce its second transfer bonus to the program since launch, and it could represent a good deal. However, it still won’t quite get you a 1:1 transfer ratio. Transfer Capital One miles to Japan Airlines with 30% bonus Between February 1 and February 28, 2026, the Capital One mileage program in the United States is offering a 30% bonus on points transfers to Japan Airlines Mileage Bank. Capital One miles convert into Japan Airlines miles at a…

Chase Ultimate Rewards has just launched its latest transfer bonus. While a 50% bonus sounds great, this isn’t an offer I’d get excited about, personally. Still, let’s cover the details. Chase offering 50% bonus on Marriott Bonvoy transfersBetween February 1 and February 28, 2026, you can receive a 50% bonus when you transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards points to Marriott Bonvoy.Chase Ultimate Rewards Marriott Bonvoy transfer bonusThis promotion is being offered on Chase’s end (in the United States), and is hard coded into the transfer ratio, meaning you should see the bonus at the time that you make the transfer. Points…

Feb. 1, 2026, © Leeham News: The Singapore Air Show begins on Feb. 3 local time (Feb. 2 in the US and Europe). LNA’s sister publication, AIN, is on site and will be reporting from the show. LNA will pick up selected stories. AIN’s coverage already is underway with some pre-show posts: AIN publishes a print edition “Air Show Daily” beginning on the first day. PDF versions will be available here. Past Air Show Dailies are currently available. Related source

For the fourth hotel stay of my Iceland to The Residence via Cambodia trip, I spent one night at the Courtyard by Marriott Reykjavik Keflavik Airport, a 150-room property that opened in 2020, located near the country’s major airport. I was alone on this stay — after an awesome five nights in Iceland, Ford had taken an evening flight back home, and I had an early flight the following morning to continue my review trip, so there was value in staying near the airport. Ultimately the Courtyard by Marriott is a perfectly pleasant hotel that’s in line with what you’d expect…

The first production representative MQ-25 taxied under its own power at Boeing’s facilities, following a series of rigorous ground trials over several months. Boeing and the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) announced on Jan. 30, 2026, that the production representative prototype of the MQ-25 Stingray unmanned refueling tanker has started taxi trials at MidAmerica Airport near St. Louis, Missouri, home of Boeing’s production facility. This is one of nine Stingrays that Boeing is building for the Navy “to be put through static, fatigue and flight tests to ensure durability and airworthiness,” said the company on Sep. 14, 2023,…

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The Type 076 is moving rapidly towards becoming the first ship with an EMALS catapult to operate combat drones, with the GJ-21 possibly being prepared for testing. China’s Type 076 Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) was recently spotted with a fully covered collaborative combat aircraft/unmanned combat  aerial vehicle (CCA/UCAV) in visuals that appeared on Jan. 31, 2026. Observers and analysts believe this is a mock-up of the GJ-21 naval UCAV. The ship is also captured in a video while being pushed into open waters by tugboats at the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai, suggesting it might be slated for its second round…

For a few years now, regulators in the United States have been proposing a common sense change that would make it easier to investigate aircraft incidents and accidents (and in turn, make flying safer). While there has been quite a bit of pushback from pilots, there’s some good news, as this change will finally be implemented. Cockpit voice recorder will start recording 12.5x longer One of the reasons that aviation is so safe is because we learn so much from every incident, to prevent something similar from happening in the future. This is largely thanks to flight data recorders (which…

While go arounds happen all the time, here’s an interaction you don’t often hear… United Express CRJ-700 blames go around on United 777 Airline Videos Live has both video and air traffic control communication of an unusual interaction that happened shortly after 12PM on Thursday, January 29, 2026, at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Specifically, a United Express Bombardier CRJ-700 operated by SkyWest was coming in to land after a short flight from Reno (RNO) as UA5899. At the last minute, the pilots performed a go around, which isn’t unusual as such. As the plane was climbing out, the air…

I’ve written broadly about my hotel pet peeves, as we all have our own preferences when staying at hotels. Regardless of whether we’re talking about luxury or limited service hotels, I appreciate a functional and well designed bathroom. There are certain hotel bathroom design choices that drive me bonkers, and leave me scratching my head. Along those lines, there was recently a national story about how hotel bathroom design keeps getting worse. I’d like to talk about that a bit, and then share the hotel bathroom design choices that frustrate me the most. Are hotels cutting costs on bathroom privacy?Big…