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‘Tis the season for year-end status promotions. Hot on the heels of Emirates’ latest promo is Qatar Airways, which has launched a mileage earning promotion that may have you thinking twice about your Middle Eastern carrier of choice. New Privilege Club members can sign up for an account and register for this promo in order to earn 10,000 bonus Qmiles in Premium Class or 5,000 bonus Qmiles in Economy Class upon your first flight....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Each Saturday, we round up news stories that you may have missed from the week before, including several that already appeared on The Points Guy, and some more that we haven’t covered yet. If you’re an avid TPG reader, scroll down for the new stuff. Here’s the top miles, points and travel news you may have missed this week....

Each Saturday, we round up the top miles, points and travel news that you might have missed on TPG this week. Here’s what you need to know:6 of the worst types of travelersThe best cards for travelers in the Amex and Chase lineups offer great bonuses and great redemption options. (Image by DuKai photographer / Getty Images)After 27 years in the business, TPG credit cards editor Benét Wilson is clear on the types of passengers she hates to encounter on an airplane....

Grab three of your closest friends because in just three short years you’ll (allegedly) be able to see the world from a different perspective at the first ever luxury space hotel, the Aurora Station. The company is projected to launch in 2021, with its first guest-accompanied trip in 2022. If you’re used to flying at 35,000 feet, get ready to test the air at a height of 200 miles (1,056,000 feet) above the Earth’s surface....

A lack of travel companion should never be a reason for passing up a once-in-a-lifetime trip abroad. As long as you exercise caution when traveling solo, the experience of backpacking through Europe or touring exotic locales in Thailand will reward you with countless memories (and Instagram photos). In fact, more people are traveling solo than ever, according to a new report from Airbnb.Emerging hotspots include destinations like Buenos Aires, Toronto and Oslo with solo travelers booking anywhere from 14% to 27% of available Airbnbs....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.The new 12,500-square-foot Centurion Lounge at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) makes great use of a previously vacant upper wing of Terminal D, utilizing the space with both taste and efficiency. This lounge is family-friendly, with a sound-proof children’s room and changing facilities in the bathrooms.The lounge opens Thursday, September 27, a tiny bit ahead of its anticipated October debut....

Vail Resorts announced Friday that the group, which operates ski resorts across the globe, will acquire two major Australian ski resorts pending regulatory approval. Vail Resorts currently owns and operates Vail, Breckenridge and Keystone resorts in the US and will acquire Falls Creek Alpine Resort and Hotham Ski Resort, both of which are located in Victoria, Australia, roughly halfway between Melbourne and Canberra. This will be Vail Resorts’ second and third Australian ski areas, having added Perisher Ski Resort, the largest ski area in the southern hemisphere, to the group’s portfolio in 2015....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available – View the current offers here.“Reader Questions” are answered twice a week — Mondays and Fridays — by TPG Senior Writer Julian Mark Kheel.Any parent will tell you that while sometimes challenging, having a child is an amazingly rewarding, life-altering, heart-warming experience. And also enormously expensive. So TPG reader Chris wants to know if he should try to earn credit card rewards on a common child care expense, even if it comes with a fee…[pullquote source=“TPG Reader Chris”]If a day care charges 2% for using a credit card, which card should I use?...

Next time you’re chowing down at 35,000 feet, you might catch a glimpse of your meal’s manufacture date and discover that your produce and protein were put into that little plastic tub months ago — maybe even more than a year before your flight.Don’t worry.According to Randy Worobo, a professor of food safety and food microbiology at Cornell University’s Department of Food Science, “if [food]’s been properly packaged with moisture barriers — very good packaging that prevents moisture loss during storage — it’s totally fine,” Worobo said....

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 ExpressThis is the richest deal I’ve ever seen for the Starwood Amex, which is my favorite points earning credit card (full write up coming shortly)....

Back in August, American Airlines AAdvantage members noticed that five award partners were suddenly available for booking online (Cathay Pacific, Malaysian, SriLankan, Qatar and LATAM). When AA discovered this, the functionality was quickly removed and an AA spokesperson noted that the website “incorrectly displayed award bookings.“But that statement ended with a pledge:Making more award partners bookable on aa.com is something that our customers continually ask for, so please rest assured that we are working towards this....

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.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. However, if you’re using The Platinum Card® from American Express, you’ll need to book directly with the airline or through the Amex Travel portal to get 5x MR points....

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 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.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. However, if you’re using The Platinum Card® from American Express, you’ll need to book directly with the airline or through the Amex Travel portal to get 5x MR points....

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....

Delta Air Lines is expanding its lineup in Boston with nonstop service to Miami.The service will begin Dec. 21, Delta announced, with two daily round-trip flights on Airbus A320 aircraft.The addition continues a recent growth spurt for Delta in Boston, where it is increasingly battling JetBlue – the current top carrier.Delta has added numerous new Boston routes during the past year, including flights to destinations like Chicago O’Hare, Cleveland, Newark Liberty and Washington Reagan National....

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.Discover Deals is no longer available as of November 1, 2018.This page includes information about Discover cards that are not currently available on The Points Guy and may be out of date.Looks like price protection isn’t the only Discover Card perk that’s expiring on Halloween....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.American Express just launched the “Refer a Business” program, which rewards those who hold an Amex business credit card and refer someone to open that card with a special link. If you have the Business Gold Rewards Card from American Express OPEN, The Business Platinum Card from American Express OPEN or another eligible card, this could be a relatively easy way to boost your points balance — and a nice complement to its existing Refer a Friend program for personal cards....

Angled flat seats in business are becoming more of a novelty than a normality. One of the carriers that still has this product in its premium cabin is EgyptAir, which currently has a long-haul fleet of eight Boeing 777s and 10 Airbus A330s.The airline ordered six Boeing 787 Dreamliners in 2017 to replace the aging aircraft. The new birds will soon come into service this year and Routes Online has found that it will feature a new business class product....