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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 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....

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.Like Alaska Airlines and most recently Southwest, Delta has been limiting the sale of economy seats, capping the number of passengers on each flight with the aim of enabling physical separation onboard. As with other carriers, American Airlines and United have been blocking seat selection, but if a flight is fully booked, agents will assign middle seats at the gate....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.During the 2012 London Olympic Games, Chase and Visa will be hosting a VIP Lounge located at 116 Pall Mall in London’s West End (between the Charing Cross Tube station and Buckingham Palace) where cardholders will get to meet Olympic athletes, enjoy food wine and beer, try celebrity chef Morimoto’s cuisine and enjoy free WiFi and 10 HDTV’s broadcasting various events....

In advance of the planned third runway expected to open by 2026, London Heathrow Airport (LHR) has unveiled a long-term masterplan to expand the airport to cope with the increased flights the third runway will bring.This plan, which has already been approved by the British parliament, is expected to be complete by 2050. A new runway bridge will be built over the M25 motorway which will provide spectacular views of the world’s biggest aircraft at Europe’s busiest airport while motorists drive underneath....

There may be no such thing as a free lunch. But for one lucky TPG reader, there will be such a thing as two free nights at any Hilton hotel in the world.Earlier this year, Hilton announced a new partnership with Lyft, where travelers can earn bonus Hilton Honors points on every ride by linking their Hilton and Lyft accounts. If you haven’t yet linked your accounts, do so before Nov....

London’s Heathrow Airport (LHR) was put on lockdown earlier today while airport authorities responded to a piece of suspicious luggage at a security checkpoint. The item lead to the security checkpoints at Terminal 2 to be locked down while police and sniffer dogs were deployed to investigate the item.Passengers took to Twitter to show the situation.Heathrow Airport’s official Twitter handle responded to stranded passengers, saying that Met police were on the case, and that “The safety of our passengers and colleagues is our absolute priority and we apologise to those passengers whose journeys were impacted as we responded to this incident....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Every year, I try to plan a special trip with my family. After traveling on my own so much, I welcome the thought of traveling with my parents. Although they have their own points and miles, after spending all year racking them up, being able to use them them to fly my parents in business and first class is all sorts of family fun....

[tpg_rating tpg-rating-score=“86” ground-experience=“8” cabin-seat=“20” amens-ife=“12” food-bev=“22” service=“24” pros=“Five-star ground experience, memorable food and a delightful crew.” cons=“Uncomfortable over-ear headphones and stingy Wi-Fi allotments.” /]Throughout this summer as TPG’s Reviews Intern, I’ve gotten the opportunity to fly some airlines that I never thought I’d get a chance to experience, let alone in a premium cabin. After some pretty incredible flights with Etihad and Garuda Indonesia, next up to bat was Thailand’s award-winning flag carrier....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available – View the current offers here - Southwest Rapid Rewards Premier Credit CardEarlier this year, the FAA announced it was easing slot restrictions at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), opening the door to additional options for travelers. For a market typically dominated by United Airlines, the opportunity for low-cost carriers to fly through EWR could mean good news for travelers. And with Southwest Airlines expanding its domestic route network, it looks like the carrier is answering the call by adding a new route from EWR to San Juan, Puerto Rico (SJU)....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.While Chase Ultimate Rewards is one of the most popular travel points programs around, no program is perfect. So we recently asked our TPG Lounge readers to sound off on the Ultimate Rewards features they’d love to see added, removed or changed. Here’s what they had to say. (Some responses have been lightly edited for style and clarity)....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.As we all sit around and wait for another lucrative transfer bonus from American Express such as recent 50% bonuses to British Airways and the historic (but seemingly long-gone) up-to-67% bonuses to Delta, there are still plenty of standard transfer options from which you can pull tremendous value from American Express’s points program, which is one of the reasons I value these points so highly and choose to accrue them instead of simply getting 2% back on a cash-back 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.United Airlines has closed gate C41 at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH). Bush — 41st President of the United States — was remembered today by family, friends and political leaders at his funeral service held at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC....

The gif below appears to be filmed by a pilot in flight. They knew from their displays that another plane was about to cross in the opposite direction above them, and were ready with a camera. The gif provides an astounding example of the vertical separation between commercial airliners high in the sky and the closing speeds at which they operate.Just watch, and if you’re like me, watch it on repeat....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.You can now use either your Marriott Rewards points or your Starwood Preferred Guest Starpoints to get super rare and exclusive ticket packages to Coachella.The music festival, held in Indio, California, is set for two weekends next month: April 13-15 and 20-22, and will feature huge names like Beyoncé, Eminem and The Weeknd, plus about five dozen other bands and performers....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.The Ink Plus Business Card from Chase routinely earns a high spot on TPG’s monthly list of top travel rewards credit card offers, thanks to lucrative bonus categories and a sign-up bonus of 60,000 points after spending $5,000 in the first three months. While that offer is already worth a whopping $1,260 based on TPG’s valuations, for a limited time you can nab an even higher sign-up bonus....

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.Turns out inflight Wi-Fi might cause more trouble than it’s worth ($1 to $20). At least, that was the case for travel blogger and YouTuber Josh Cahill when he took to Instagram to complain about the insufficient service midway through a Malaysia Air flight....

The Read House is offering up its infamously haunted Room 311 for select dates in October for those brave enough to book. These upcoming dates will be the only time this year the room will be available for the public to stay.Room 311 not only housed Al Capone on his way to Federal prison, but was also the site of the grizzly death of a woman named Annalisa Netherly. Some say she was murdered in the bathtub by a former lover, while others contend she died by suicide after a fit of jealous rage....

It’s always a good idea to carefully check your airline tickets for issues once they’re issued. You can catch — and correct for free within 24 hours — name misspellings, incorrect identification numbers or even booking the wrong date. Thankfully a TPG reader was diligent about checking her ticket, and by doing so, she caught an issue affecting tickets at the world’s largest airline.TPG reader Heather K. — a veteran of booking flights through the Chase travel portal — noticed something odd when she purchased an American Airlines ticket recently through the portal....

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....