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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....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here – Citi / AAdvantage Executive World Elite MastercardEnter to win this week’s Thursday Giveaway for your chance to win a $500 gift card from American Airlines. This gift card is valid for any flights or vacation packages booked through American Airlines. Use your winnings to book a last minute Labor Day Weekend trip, or plan ahead and pick a new destination for a fall getaway....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Each time I fire up United.com to search for an award flight to or from Europe, there’s one airline in particular that appears more often than not: LOT Polish Airlines.Poland’s flag carrier is without a doubt one of the most generous Star Alliance airlines when it comes to releasing premium-cabin award space, but with a 2-2-2 arrangement in business class and a requirement to backtrack a bit (by first flying from Western Europe to Warsaw) to get home, I hadn’t been especially eager to give LOT a try....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Traveling to far-off lands and exotic countries is incredible, but seeing an impoverished child selling souvenirs or begging for money can really tug on you heartstrings. Here, TPG International Contributor Lori Zaino offers some charity organizations and ways to help make a difference in kids’ lives around the world. (All photos are by author unless otherwise specified).Research Charity Options Ahead Of TimeAt TPG, we believe supporting organizations that keep families together (or help children through vocational programs and education) is a positive alternative to orphanage tourism or giving change to begging children....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.For the third time in less than two weeks, the Northeast is preparing for another nor’easter. Winter Storm Skylar, which is making its way to the region, is expected to pack a punch with heavy snow, damaging winds and potential blizzard conditions and flooding — especially in coastal New England.Skylar will have the largest impact on coastal New England when it’s expected to make landfall Tuesday morning, with the brunt of the storm lasting through Tuesday evening....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Using HotelTonight is one of the easiest ways to book a last-minute hotel stay for less. The one thing the app always had going against it though, was the lack of a loyalty program — and oftentimes, hotels won’t allow travelers to earn credit on stays booked through HotelTonight. That’s all about to change, however, as the company just announced its new “loyalty program” of sorts, HT Perks....

Mandatory mask policies. Blocked middle seats. Massive flight cuts.The coronavirus has upended nearly everything about the way airlines operate these days. But beyond service cuts, social distancing and new cabin cleaning protocols, the pandemic has also forced the airlines to rethink not only how they fly, but where they fly — with international routes slashed and domestic routes rejiggered.Initially, airlines had little choice. By late April, the number of passengers being screened at U....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.One of my favorite ways to spend points is to experience places that I could otherwise never afford with cash. The Miraval family of resorts firmly fall into that category of somewhere we probably wouldn’t pay for with dollars, but loved with points. World of Hyatt points funded our anniversary stay at the Miraval Arizona earlier this year, and we enjoyed it so much that we have kept a very close eye on the progress of the forthcoming 220-acre Miraval Austin set in the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve....

Way back on Episode 2 of our Miles Away podcast, TPG Family editor Summer Hull (aka Mommy Points) shared some incredibly useful tips for planning a ski trip during peak dates. But what if you don’t mind waiting to hit the slopes until later in the season? Or, in some cases, actually prefer it.Today, Summer’s back to chat spring skiing with long-time TPG contributor Jason Steele. While Summer’s a frequent visitor to Colorado, Jason actually lives there, and has extensive experience at many of the region’s top resorts....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available - Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American ExpressOne 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....

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 all the positive ways award travel has affected their lives. That being said, while I love hearing about your successes, I think there’s also a lot we can learn by sharing our mistakes, and I’m calling on readers to send in your most egregious and woeful travel failures....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.TPG Reader Patrick emailed me to ask about which credit card to use during a road trip:“I’m planning a cross-country road trip in May-June of this year, driving from Los Angeles to New York and back. I have a Citi AAdvantage Amex and Mastercard that I use for everything - gas, food, bills, etc. I also use the Marriott Rewards Premier Credit Card (for Marriott stays and paying my timeshare yearly dues)....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Material girls, rejoice. You can now stay the night at Madonna’s former luxury home in London via HomeAway.Located in South Kensington, Madonna and her now ex-husband, director Guy Ritchie, owned and lived in the “Queen’s Gate Mews” flat from 1999-2003 – the singer’s “Music” era, for reference – before trading it out for a bigger property. Scenes from the 2004 action film “Layer Cake” featuring Daniel Craig were also filmed in the apartment....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.We often say here at TPG that the most valuable points and miles are flexible points and miles. That is, we prefer a rewards program that lets you transfer points to multiple airline and hotel partners in addition to using them to purchase travel directly.On Wednesday morning, Barclays — which recently re-branded from Barclaycard — announced its brand new Arrival Premier World Elite Mastercard, which offers transfer partners for the first time and 2 miles per dollar on all purchases....

I had planned a Saturday night in Chicago and was looking for a hotel near Michigan Avenue, the city’s most famous thoroughfare. The Gwen is part of the Luxury Collection, one of the few brands in the Marriott portfolio whose properties evoke a sense of place. So I was excited when I saw decent rates for the hotel at around $150. I decided to check out the 311-room property, which is named after the Chicago sculptor Gwen Lux....

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries announced Tuesday morning that it would buy Bombardier’s cash-strapped regional jet division, the maker of the CRJ series of airplanes that does the bulk of regional flying in the US. The jets will be produced until 2020.The Japanese company agreed to pay $550 million to Bombardier and assume an additional $200 million of the Canadian manufacturer’s existing debt. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2020....

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 boost your account balance. Fortunately, 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. You can also purchase miles directly from an airline.Today, American Airlines released a new buy miles promotion to celebrate the AAdvantage program’s 35th anniversary: 35% off and up to 15,000 bonus miles when you buy AA miles....

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.If you have elite status at one airline but want to move your business elsewhere, status matches and challenges are a popular way to make the move without having to start all over at a new carrier. All three major legacy carriers — American, Delta and United — have varying flavors of status match challenges which allow you to immediately earn elite status and keep it with a vastly reduced amount of flying in a short period, as long as you can show you already have status at a competing carrier....