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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.Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here - Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American Express, Starwood Preferred Guest® Business Credit Card from American Express While I think the Hyatt card is a better deal (the equivalent of 60,000 Starwood points if you use the two Hyatt nights at top tier hotels) because they don’t require any spend to get the bonus, the Starwood card does offer incredible flexibility because of their generous airline transfer ratios....

Singapore Airlines made global headlines last year when it relaunched its Newark-Singapore flight. The 9,534-mile flight allowed the carrier to reclaim the title of having the “world’s longest flight,” bumping Qatar Airways and its 9,032-mile Doha-Auckland, New Zealand, flight out of the top spot.Another title shift could happen in the coming years if Qantas Airways decides to push ahead with its “Project Sunrise” flights. The Australian carrier made headlines of its own this fall as it tested several ultra-long flights to Sydney – including from New York and from London – to great fanfare....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Now through October 19, 2016, the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express and the Starwood Preferred Guest Business Credit Card are offering a sign-up bonus of two free nights at Category 1-5 Starwood properties rather than the usual 25,000 points. To qualify for this offer, you’ll need to spend $3,000 on the personal card within the first three months from account opening, and $5,000 in the first three months on the business card....

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.The US government’s partial shutdown took a major toll on the world’s busiest airport on Monday.Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport (ATL) continued to warn airline passengers on Tuesday to leave at least three hours to get through security checkpoints for domestic flights, following TSA’s advice....

A total of 13 men have been arrested by Moroccan authorities following the grizzly slaying of two young Scandinavian backpackers. The bodies of the two young women, Maren Ueland (28) of Norway and Louisa Jespersen (24) of Denmark, were found in an unguarded region of the Atlas Mountains. The two women were visiting Morocco to hike the mountains, a popular destination in the North African country.Initially, four men were arrested and are believed to have committed the atrocities....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.A ski trip to a luxurious mountainside resort can be a spendy vacation, but TPG Contributor Lane Nieset reminds us that cashing in your hotel points can smooth out the moguls and bring six of the world’s most fabulous, redemption-friendly ski destinations within closer reach. Be sure to see the bottom of this post for suggestions of credit cards that will help you hit the slopes in style this winter....

The deals sound too good to be true: $3,000 for a first-class, round-trip ticket from a US airport to Madrid — nearly half what you’d find on an airline’s own site. Or the same price for a business-class seat to Australia. Or $2,700 round-trip to Paris, in the front of the plane.But are the sites advertising these fares — sites like BusinessClassGuru, PassportPremiere, and YourBusinessFlights — legit? Do airlines accept their tickets?...

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.One of the things I love most about being The Points Guy is getting to hear stories from readers about how award travel has affected their lives — the exotic vacations they’ve planned, the trips they’ve made to be with family and friends, the premium seats and suites they’ve experienced and so much more, all made possible by points and miles....

Cathay Pacific Airways is trimming capacity to the U.S. this winter, with San Francisco and Washington seeing reductions.The Oneworld alliance carrier will reduce capacity to San Francisco (SFO) and Washington Dulles (IAD) by shifting to smaller aircraft on both routes this winter. One of the airline’s three daily flights to San Francisco will shift to an Airbus A350-900 with 280 seats from a Boeing 777-300ER with up to 294 seats, according to Cirium schedules....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Want to see the latest flight deals as soon as they’re published? Follow The Points Guy on Facebook and Twitter, and subscribe to text message alerts from our deals feed, @tpg_alerts.Airfare deals are typically only available on limited dates. We recommend that you use Google Flights to find dates to fly, then book through an online travel agency, such as Orbitz or Expedia, which allows you to cancel flights without penalty by 11pm Eastern Time within one day of booking....

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.Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Airfare deals are typically only available on limited dates. We recommend you use Google Flights to find dates to fly, then book through an online travel agency such as Orbitz or Expedia, which allows you to cancel flights without penalty by 11pm Eastern Time within one day of booking....

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.Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Good news if you’re looking for a deal to Mexican or Caribbean beach destinations and have some Delta SkyMiles burning a hole in your pocket....

As far as Sky Clubs go, the expansive Terminal F location at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is tough to beat. It made the cut in our recent list of best Delta Sky Club lounges, and as of this week there’s even more reason to swing by.Delta’s Terminal F Sky Deck was temporarily closed while an all-weather roof was added in 2019. (Photo by Scott Mayerowitz/The Points Guy)The Sky Deck portion of the lounge has recently been closed, with guests treated to the signage above indicating that renovations were underway....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Since the Starwood-Marriott merger was finalized, the process of integrating the brands has been fairly swift. Almost immediately after the announcement, members (including Ritz-Carlton) could link their accounts, allowing elites to status match with the other chain, transfer points between them and, a bit later down the line, get reciprocal earning on co-branded cards. And now, we have another sign of integration, as for the first time, the three are offering the same promotion, giving members a chance to earn bonus points no matter which brand they’re staying at....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Established in 2003, ASmallWorld (ASW) is a membership-based program that gets you tangible travel and lifestyle benefits. It describes itself as “the global community with a shared passion for the good life.” Up until recently, these benefits mostly revolved around networking opportunities. However, that’s not the case anymore, as the company has recently expanded some of its premium membership options....

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.Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.For those who favor the simplicity of earning cash back rather than points or miles that can be used to book award travel, the Capital One Savor Cash Rewards Credit Card is a great pick....

Loyalty in the travel industry is a very strange beast.For most airline, hotel and car rental programs the clock resets on January 1 and travelers find themselves scrambling to requalify for the following year.Sure, there are some lifetime elite status tiers that can be hit. But generally, you are only as valuable to a company as your business during the past 12 months.That relationship is now even more tenuous with most of the world staying at home to avoid the spread of the novel coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.With baseball season in full swing, fans across the country are lining up to see their favorite teams in action. For most, a trip to the ballpark means nothing more than watching the game. But we have one opportunity in particular to call out — this summer you can use your Starpoints to transform your game day into an all-inclusive home run, complete with luxury seating, behind-the-scenes access and more....

Istanbul has been topping jetsetters’ hot lists for a few years now. With historic palaces and mosques, a beautiful waterfront, trendy neighborhoods and an up-and-coming restaurant scene, Turkey’s biggest city is one of the world’s most fascinating destinations. So if you haven’t had a chance to visit Istanbul yet, now is the time…and it’s easier than ever to use your miles to get there.As a follow-up to his installments on strategies to get to Tokyo using miles and how to book awards to Sydney using miles, I asked TPG Special Contributor Eric Rosen to put together a handy guide for using miles to get to Istanbul....

We’re in the midst of a tectonic shift when it comes to the three cabins that make up most long-haul aircraft. While it used to be economy, business and first class for many airlines, first class has fallen out of favor in many parts of the world and business class cabins have improved immensely. Add in the rollout of premium economy, and today the lineup looks more like economy, premium economy and business class....