The Travel Signal is a news feed for people who care about airline and hotel loyalty programs. It reads 10 travel-loyalty blogs, throws away the listicles and affiliate roundups, merges duplicate coverage of the same event into one item, and publishes what is left.
It exists because the useful travel-points reporting is real and the volume around it is not. Ten blogs will cover one Hyatt award chart change in a week, and eight of those posts are the same paragraph with a different credit-card link at the bottom.
Kenneth Ballenegger built and runs The Travel Signal. Editorial judgement about what is news and what is filler is made by a language model working to a written rule set, not by a person reading every post. Corrections are made by a person. Both of those facts are on the record here because a reader deserves to know which parts of a page a human touched.
Not the original article. Each story is our own write-up of what the sources report: what changed, who it applies to, the dates and numbers that matter, and why it matters, with the key facts up top. Where a story is about a promotion, a program page or a booking tool, it links to that page on the provider's own site, and it links to every source. The intent is to tell you whether the news matters to you and then send you to whoever reported it.
The feed re-reads its sources every 30 minutes. The site is rendered from a database on each request, so what you see is current as of the last pass.
It has no affiliate links and no card-referral revenue. It does not rank credit cards. It does not promise you a deal will still be live when you click.
