We didn’t invent frequent flyer programs. Just the news about them.
The trusted ecosystem powering how millions of travelers learn about, discuss, and maximize loyalty programs.
Helping travelers understand and maximize frequent flyer programs since 1986.
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Creator Platform
The platform behind BoardingArea and the voices of travel loyalty.
Powering BoardingArea and its network of creators with secure, high-performance publishing infrastructure, editorial support, technical services, and audience tools purpose-built for travel media.
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Advertising & Partnerships
Connecting brands with the world’s most engaged travelers.
Creating integrated advertising, sponsorship, and partnership opportunities that help travel brands reach influential, high-value audiences across trusted content, communities, and emerging media channels.
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Audience Intelligence
Turning decades of traveler behavior into actionable insight.
Leveraging forty years of loyalty expertise, audience data, and industry relationships to understand what frequent flyers value, identify emerging trends, and help partners stay ahead of the market.
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AI & Answer Engines
Building the future of travel discovery.
Developing AI-native publishing products, conversational search experiences, and answer engines that help travelers find trusted information through questions, not keywords.
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Community & Distribution
Connecting content with travelers wherever they are.
Expanding reach through newsletters, social channels, syndication, messaging platforms, and emerging AI surfaces to help brands and creators build deeper relationships with audiences.
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Innovation Lab
Experimenting with what’s next in travel media and loyalty.
Incubating new products, platforms, and experiences—from personalized news and membership concepts to loyalty tools and future-facing traveler technologies.
Eleven properties. One audience.
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BoardingArea
Flagship blog network.
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Freddie Awards
The industry’s loyalty-program awards.
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WebFlyer
The original frequent flyer website.
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FlyerTalk
The original online community for frequent flyers (sold).
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InsideFlyer
Global consumer portal, six languages.
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milepoint
An answer engine for frequent flyer questions.
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Mileslink
The daily wire of miles + points movement.
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MilesBuzz
Fast-turn news and alerts.
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Seat 5A
Cabin-level reviews and premium intel.
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BAM
Blogger Ad Manager — ad management for travel bloggers.
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BoardingAI
A frequent flyer innovation studio.
The Intelligence Brief
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The BoardingArea Advantage: What Managed Publishing Looks Like at Scale
How our hosting stack absorbs traffic spikes on high-value redemption stories without a single dropped page.
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The Premium Card Wars: Reaching High-Spend Travelers with Precision
Why the miles-and-points audience remains the most efficient channel for premium card issuers.
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Forty Years, One Focus: A Look Inside the Frequent Flyer Network
The largest and most influential collection of websites targeted at road warriors — how the network operates.
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The First Answer Engine Built for Frequent Flyers
With Milepoint, BoardingArea is retiring the search box for a chatbot that answers loyalty questions in plain language — with citations back to the bloggers who wrote the source material.
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Personalizing Content for the Future: The Launch of Mileslink
A new intelligence platform for frequent flyers — Personalized Packs, unique Voices, and continuous signal monitoring to help travelers stay informed without information overload.
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InsideFlyer.com Returns as the Daily Brief for Frequent Flyers
One-minute reads on the topics travelers care about, each with a clear bottom line — and a path back to the source.
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The Best Frequent Flyer Programs of 2026: Inside This Year’s Freddie Awards
The travelers have voted. Air Canada Aeroplan, Air France-KLM Flying Blue, and Air India Maharaja Club headline a 2026 Freddie Awards class that reshapes the global loyalty map.
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Milepoint Goes Dutch: A First Step Toward a Global Answer Engine
With milepoint.nl now live, the frequent flyer answer engine begins its international rollout — starting with local Dutch sources and a roadmap that points to French and Portuguese editions.
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The Mileage Calculator Returns: A WebFlyer Original Comes Back Online
First launched in the mid-1990s as a breakthrough tool for frequent flyers, the WebFlyer mileage calculator went dark for years — then returned, updated and rebuilt, in April 2026.
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The Glossary Returns: WebFlyer Rebuilds the Dictionary for Frequent Flyers
Created in 1995 to decode a new language, the WebFlyer glossary became the reference every traveler borrowed from. In 2026, it returns with new terms, deeper context, and a wink to the community.
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A Lifetime Achievement Award for the Man Who Never Worked in the Industry
In 2023, Global Flight recognized Randy Petersen with its first-ever Lifetime Achievement award — a rare honor for someone who built the industry from the outside.
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An Industry Achievement Award at the Mega Awards
In 2015, Airline Information honored Randy Petersen with an Industry Achievement Award at its Mega Awards — another early recognition of an outsider’s influence on travel loyalty.
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Frequent Flyer Services is for the frequent flyer. For over forty years we’ve built platforms where the world’s leading frequent flyers, travel bloggers, advertisers, and readers meet to learn and discuss the topics of miles + points.
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