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Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Priority Pass is the lounge membership program, long known for granting members access to more than 1,200 airport lounges across the globe. In recent months, Priority Pass has expanded its offering to include discounts at restaurants. Now, the membership-based Priority Pass is expanding its airport footprint yet again — this time, with offers.Priority Pass offers grant members access to specially negotiated discounts at airports across the world....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Earning airline miles using the traditional method (actually flying) is just one way to add to your account balance. While it’s increasingly harder to earn miles from flying, airlines make it relatively easy to accrue miles without flying — whether through top credit card offers or by utilizing shopping portals and dining reward programs. If these methods leave you short of your travel goals, you can also purchase miles directly from an airline....

Cobranded store credit cards are far from new, however, the past few years have seen a resurgence of these cards, especially in conjunction with new store loyalty programs. Now, Sephora has announced the introduction of three cobranded store credit cards, including one with travel benefits, to accompany the store’s loyalty program.Sephora is one of the largest cosmetic retailers in the world. Sephora is known for specializing in higher-end products and a more customer-oriented experience....

View this post on Instagram Nashville International concourse C corridor (opened 1987) by Robert Lamb Hart, and Gresham Smith. #airportarchitecture A post shared by Airport Architecture (@airportarchitecture) on Jun 11, 2019 at 7:21am PDT View this post on Instagram View this post on Instagram Nashville International concourse C corridor (opened 1987) by Robert Lamb Hart, and Gresham Smith. #airportarchitecture A post shared by Airport Architecture (@airportarchitecture) on Jun 11, 2019 at 7:21am PDT

Sign up for our daily newsletterEmail addressSign upI would like to subscribe to The Points Guy newsletters and special email promotions. The Points Guy will not share or sell your email. See privacy policy.A Southwest gate agent at John Wayne Airport is under fire for poking fun of a five-year-old girl’s name after checking her boarding pass. Traci Redford claims that the employee mocked her daughter, Abcde (pronounced Ab-Si-Dee), when she laughed with her fellow employees in front of the young girl who happened to be preboarding due to being epileptic....

For those hoping to grab a seat on Boeing’s longest-range Dreamliner, you’ll soon have another option: WestJet. Boeing just delivered the first of 10 incoming Dreamliners to the airline’s hometown of Calgary, with the 787-9 configured with 320 seats across economy, premium and business cabins. The first Dreamliner will fly guests domestically on Toronto (YYZ)/Calgary (YYC) routes starting Feb. 20 to assist with crew familiarization before the first international service from Calgary to London–Gatwick (LGW) on April 28....

Passengers who book a flight with Spirit Airlines might not get the most legroom or free refreshments, but they are pretty much guaranteed to arrive on time, according to new data.The Department of Transportation’s Air Travel Consumer Report named Spirit Airlines the No. 1 airline for on-time arrivals for the month of October in the US. This is the first time the budget airline has achieved this milestone.For the month of October, 89% of Spirit’s flight arrived on-time at the 361 airports surveyed by DOT....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.The big news today from Chase was that all its Ink cards for small businesses, including the Ink Plus and Ink Bold as well as the Ink Business Cash Credit Card and Ink Classic, will now be Visa Signatures.While those of us who have had any of these cards for a while now will keep the World MasterCard versions of them until they expire, all new Ink cardholders will receive Visa Signatures....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.The end of last year saw a slew of promotions for purchasing points and miles, including a 100% bonus offer from United and a 25% discount from SPG.American was also offering a bonus of up to 60% and it even extended the promotion to January 4. On the heels of the expiration of that offer, the AAdvantage program just announced a new bonus of up to 50%, a great way to kick off the new year....

James Corden, the host of the Late Late Show, has upped the ante with his newest bit: a spinoff of his wildly popular ‘Carpool Karaoke,’ which features famous singers hopping into his car, chatting and sporadically bursting into song.In a new video spotted on Point me to the Plane lasting a full nineteen minutes, James Corden’s flight to Los Angeles is canceled, whereupon he hits up buddy Kanye West and his Sunday Service choir to hitch a ride on a 767, thus giving birth to ‘Airpool Karaoke....

Missed your chance to buy this island off the coast of England? No problem. Now an entire abandoned village is up for sale in New Zealand. And at just $1.8 million, it’s a steal. (No seriously, that’s less than the average New York City apartment.)(Photo courtesy of Trade Me Limited.)Lake Waitaki Village on New Zealand’s South Island — renowned for its lakes, mountains and glaciers — was built in the 1930s as housing for laborers working on the Waitaki Dam....

You can now check-in using facial recognition technology at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA) as part of China’s rollout of biometric systems.According to the Civil Aviation Administration of China, SHA revealed self-service kiosks powered by facial recognition technology on Monday for flight and baggage check-in, security clearance and boarding. Several airports in China already use facial recognition, but Shanghai’s new system is the first fully automated one.The airport’s first airline to adopt the system is Spring Airlines, a Shanghai-based low-cost carrier....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.2012 has been a pretty busy year in the travel world - between airline mergers, airline “operational” challenges, elite status program changes and a slew of new credit cards and bonuses, here are the 15 things in the miles/points universal that I’m thankful for this year. (Check out my 2011 list to see what I was jazzed about last year)....

Gone are the days when a hotel gym consisted of nothing but a treadmill, an elliptical machine and some dumbbells forgotten in the corner. Nowadays, in order to attract guests who don’t want to miss their workouts on the road, hotels have upped their fitness game big time — the trend is so huge that high-end fitness chain Equinox actually plans to open its own hotels starting in 2018.Until then, there are plenty of options for health-conscious travelers that you can visit right now....

American Airlines’ premium-cabin passengers will be able to pre-order their meals on more flights starting next month.Beginning March 11, American will expand its pre-order option to include American Eagle flights that have a first-class cabin and fly on routes of 900 miles or more.American said the move will make it the first airline to allow passengers to pre-order meals on both regional and mainline routes.Sign up for the free daily TPG newsletter for more airline news....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.An important part of maximizing your travel is making sure your vacation time doesn’t get used up in transit. In this post, TPG Senior Points & Miles Correspondent Nick Ewen offers his tips for how to get around once you’ve reached your destination.There are a lot of considerations that go into trip planning. Points and miles enthusiasts naturally focus much of their efforts on crafting the perfect award ticket and finding the best free hotel room....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here: Citi AAdvantage Executive World Elite MastercardCiti is a TPG Advertising Partner.American Airlines recently reorganized its credit card agreements, signing on with both Citi and Barclaycard. This hopefully will prove to be great for customers, as the two banks compete for the same market with high sign-up bonuses and excellent perks.For those looking for a fast-track to elite status, the options for making progress through credit card spend have been a bit slim so far....

The Federal Aviation Administration said civilian flights from the U.S. can once again overfly the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, a move that comes as military tensions between the U.S. and Iran have ratcheted down.The FAA cited Iranian military de-escalation as the reason for the change.“The FAA assesses there is sufficiently reduced risk of Iranian military miscalculation or misidentification that could affect U.S. civil aviation operations in the overwater airspace above the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman,” the agency said in a statement....

Qatar Airways is bringing its incredibly popular Qsuite business class seat to another sector of its fleet.Seatmaps show that the airline is set to introduce Qsuite on its 777-200LR next month. Starting June 2, Qatar will start flying its first Qsuite-equipped 777-200LR between Doha (DOH) and Houston (IAH).Since there’s only one 777-200LR with the Qsuite cabin, the aircraft will operate every other day. On the opposite days the route will be serviced by a 777-300ER with Qatar’s old business class....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.If you were to refer to the “Houston Express” to someone in casual conversation, there’s a good chance they’d think of a passenger train from the golden age of rail travel. But to those of us who are #AvGeeks, the Houston Express is something else entirely, one of the most storied flights to ever exist — a nonstop (on a chartered 747 no less!...