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BoardingArea’s 100+ travel bloggers fly the routes, stay in the hotels and test the cards. Now their answers come to ChatGPT, Claude and the AI you already use, checked every morning and linked back to the expert who wrote them.

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BoardingArea, Colorado Springs · Where BoardingArea bloggers wrote about in the last 48 hours (the last day named too few places to draw): 8 posts from 6 blogs naming 5 airports.
iArcs start at each blog’s home country; the network’s US home is Colorado Springs.
BoardingArea, Colorado Springs · Where BoardingArea bloggers wrote about in the last 48 hours (the last day named too few places to draw): 8 posts from 6 blogs naming 5 airports.
iArcs start at each blog’s home country; the network’s US home is Colorado Springs.

Who the experts are

Travel experts in 14 countries.

104 travel blogs, written by people who fly the routes, stay in the hotels and test the cards, each under their own name.

  1. United States71 blogs
  2. Mexico1 blog
  3. Canada4 blogs
  4. Brazil1 blog
  5. Spain3 blogs
  6. United Kingdom7 blogs
  7. France1 blog
  8. Germany4 blogs
  9. India2 blogs
  10. China2 blogs
  11. Indonesia1 blog
  12. South Korea1 blog
  13. Australia3 blogs
  14. Japan1 blog

2 blogs don’t say which country they’re based in.

From the network’s blog list. Every blog →

Every answer comes from someone who went. We check the numbers each morning, and every link goes back to them.

Ask your AI assistant.
The experts answer.

Works with ChatGPT and Claude. Add BoardingArea once and ask the way you already do. What we’ve checked comes back as a card, with the experts linked.

Card offers, checked first.

Every morning each card’s bonus is checked against the places that publish it. It’s marked verified only when they agree, and the link to apply goes to a blogger, not the bank.

What your points are worth.

The middle of the published valuations, next to the least the program itself will give you. Ask about a redemption and you’ll hear whether it beats both.

What people are reading.

The stories being read on several blogs at once, each blog measured against its own usual day. Nobody’s traffic is shown.

From the people who stayed.

Ask about a hotel or a seat and you get the bloggers who stayed there or flew it, in their own words, with a link to their post.

Recorded in ChatGPT, Sep 30
Recorded in Claude, Sep 30: verified, the dead link flagged, where to apply

This morning, at a glance.

Offers checked this morning.

A card’s bonus is shown only when its sources agree. Four of today’s:

Verified Sep 30, 2026 · every offer

  • American Express Platinum Card175,000 points 5 sources agree
  • Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant150,000 points 4 sources agree
  • Ink Business Preferred100,000 points 4 sources agree
  • Chase Sapphire Reserve100,000 points 4 sources agree

What a point is worth.

The middle of the published valuations, with the floor the program itself sets.

Amex Membership Rewards, Hilton Honors · verified Sep 30, 2026 · every value

floor 0.6¢
1.7¢Amex Membership Rewards, a point 1.5–2¢ across valuations · floor 0.6¢ (a statement credit, Amex's Cover Your Charges)
floor 0.2¢
0.4¢Hilton Honors, a point 0.35–0.5¢ across valuations · floor 0.2¢ (Amazon Shop with Points, 500 points to the dollar)

Promotions, and when they end.

Only the ones two sources agree on, matched promotion by promotion.

5 verified Sep 30, 2026 · every promotion

11days left

Radisson Rewards: 2,000 bonus points and save up to 20% off. Ends Oct 11, 2026.

The next 5 to end

  1. Radisson RewardsOct 11
  2. IHG One RewardsNov 4
  3. Marriott BonvoyDec 15
  4. Hilton HonorsDec 31
  5. IHG One RewardsDec 31

Who covered what.

This week’s stories, each as big as the number of blogs that wrote about it. Tap one to see who had it first.

The last 7 days: 124 stories, 35 on two or more blogs · all of them

What readers are reading.

Readers across the network, hour by hour, against the usual hour. A ratio, never a count.

Clicky, 105 blogs’ sites, the last 24 whole hours, Denver time · network analytics

1.0× usual 6 PM12 AM6 AM12 PM 2.3× the usual hour at 8 PM

How an answer is checked

One offer, from question to answer.

1

A question arrives.

“Is the Amex Platinum 175K offer still available?”

Is the Amex Platinum 175K offer still available?

2

The experts who cover it.

12 BoardingArea experts wrote about this card in the last four weeks, out of 104 blogs in the network.

One Mile at a Time, Frequent Miler, View from the Wing and 9 more

3

Checked that morning.

Checked the morning of Sep 30 against American Express’ own terms: 5 of 5 sources agree on 175,000 points. It catches figures that have moved, too. How this is checked

verified 175,000 points 5 of 5 agree

Caught in our 40-question test, Sep 30

Chase → Aeroplan transfer bonus

30%20%

An answer said 30%. The verified figure was 20%, and the answer said so.

4

The answer, linked to the expert.

You apply through a blogger’s page, never an issuer’s.

American Express Platinum Card

Bonus175,000points, up to
Spend$12,000in 6 months
Annual fee$895

verified Verified · 5 of 5 sources agree

Read and apply through Frequent Miler, One Mile at a Time, View from the Wing

As of Sep 30, 2026

How we know

verified

Source
BoardingArea bloggers' offer pages, the issuers' own pages and other published sources, read every morning (last 4:13 am MDT)
What it rests on
  • The issuer’s own page: “AS HIGH AS 175,000 Membership Rewards ® points after you spend $12,000 in purchases on your new Card within the first 6 months of Card Membership.”
  • Another published source: “Up to 175,000 points after $12,000 spend within 6 months.”
  • frequentmiler.com: “As high as 175K points after $12K spend in the first 6 months.”
  • onemileatatime.com: “You may be eligible for a welcome offer as high as 175,000 bonus Membership Rewards points after spending $12,000 within six months.”
  • viewfromthewing.com: “as high as 175,000 Membership Rewards® points after you spend $12,000 in eligible purchases on your new Card in your first 6 months of Card Membership.”
Checked by
5 of 5 sources: they agree

An offer is shown only when the issuer’s own page states it or two sources agree on it; each source’s words are above.

What the network covered this week.

Each bubble is a story, as big as the number of blogs that wrote about it. 124 stories in the last 7 days; 35 on two or more blogs. Point at one to see who had it first.

Updated every 10 minutes

  • Promotions and deals
  • Other news
  • Airlines and airports
  • Hotels
  • Cards

Only one blog noticed newest first

Pick a topic.

Ten things travellers ask about most. Each has its own page: what’s verified today, and what the experts wrote this week.

Add BoardingArea to your AI assistant.

  1. 1Pick your assistantChatGPT or Claude. Others are for developers.
  2. 2Add BoardingAreaPaste the address below. No account, free.
  3. 3Ask a travel questionAnswers name the expert, the date and link their own page.
  1. On chatgpt.com, open Plugins in the sidebar, press Add, then Create plugin.
  2. Name it BoardingArea and paste the address into the URL box. Set Authentication to No authentication, tick “I understand and want to continue”, press Create, then Connect BoardingArea.
  3. In a chat, press + and choose BoardingArea, then ask your question.ChatGPT’s message box with BoardingArea chosen and a question being typed
  4. When BoardingArea adds something new, open Settings → Plugins → BoardingArea and press Refresh.

Checked Sep 30, 2026 against OpenAI’s help: Plugins in ChatGPT.

Questions.

BoardingArea is a network of 100+ travel blogs, written by people who fly the routes, stay in the hotels and test the cards. Add it to your AI assistant and their answers come with your questions: the bloggers’ posts, and card offers, points values, transfer bonuses and promotions that have been checked.

Yes. There’s no account and no sign-up: add BoardingArea to your assistant and ask.

Card offers, points values, transfer bonuses and promotions. Every morning several published sources are read; a figure goes out only when the issuer states it or two independent sources agree, with its status and the date it was checked. Otherwise it says so and sends you to the bloggers covering it.

To the blogger’s own page, always: the post, or the blogger’s page for applying for a card. Never to an issuer’s application page, and never to a copy of the post.

ChatGPT and Claude, with the steps above. In ChatGPT: Plugins → Add → Create plugin, the address in the URL box, No authentication. In Claude: Customize → Connectors → Add custom connector. Assistants for developers such as Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code are on the Connect page, under For developers.

No accounts, no cookies, and not your questions or conversations. The index holds the network’s public posts; the analytics are site statistics shown only as shares and ratios. The privacy page has the detail.

BoardingArea, the network of travel and loyalty blogs. The posts belong to the bloggers who wrote them.

Email sean@frequentflyerservices.com with the page or the answer and what looks wrong. Every figure also has a "How we know" panel with its sources.