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.
Author: Alice Clark
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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.
