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TPG Contributor Roger Morris knows wine. Here, he outlines seven loyalty programs that are game-changers for wine enthusiasts everywhere.American wineries don’t want you to just buy a bottle of their wine — they want you buy cases of it. And not just when you first visit their tasting rooms.Enter the loyalty program. While most producers keep their wine clubs simple, relying on a set number of periodic wine shipments, a steady flow of news from the winery and the promise of additional bonuses and discounts for repeat orders, some wineries have established innovative programs that go beyond the standard 15 percent discount....

Westgate Resorts has a tradition of giving military families a free vacation to celebrate its annual Military Weekend in Orlando. Sign-up for the free vacation begins today, Nov. 11, 2019, at 9 a.m. EST on a first come, first served basis. The first 1,500 eligible respondents will receive a three-day, two-night vacation from May 8–10, 2020, at the Westgate Vacation Villas Resort & Spa or the Westgate Town Center Resort & Spa in Kissimmee, Florida....

Aeroflot is about to introduce a new business class with enclosed suites on flights to the U.S. — and the airplanes with the new biz product will also look different on the outside. Russia’s flag carrier and Delta Air Lines partner is brightening up the look of its aircraft, with a new livery that will debut soon on the first of its Airbus A350 aircraft.In photos posted by Frenchpainter and JetPhotos on Twitter, the airline’s first-ever A350 can be seen outside the Airbus plant in Toulouse sporting a bright white livery....

Today I want to share a story from TPG reader Vanessa, who planned a quick trip to New York for a concert:My husband and I were on a date night a few weeks back, and he was telling me how he had just discovered a great musician named Leon Bridges. As we listened to Leon in the car, I decided to look up his tour dates, but he wasn’t stopping anytime soon near our home in Tampa, Florida, so I gave up the hunt....

Most intercontinental airliners offer at least two classes of service — business and economy, at a minimum — with the world’s largest airlines operating three classes or more. There are a handful of planes with only a business-class cabin floating around, however, though they’re few and far between. Until recently, SAS offered such a product, and Singapore discontinued its nonstop all-biz Newark-SIN flight, but British Airways still flies an all-biz plane on long-haul trips, as does La Compagnie....

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 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 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 11:00pm Eastern Time within one day of booking....

In Delta’s world, a seat isn’t just a seat, it’s a marketing opportunity. It’s a chance to brand something so that it sticks with you long after arrival, and it becomes easy to recommend to others. Delta has been quite intentional about its use of phrasing when selling seats. and according to the airline’s chief financial officer Paul Jacobson, you can expect even more segmentation in the years to come.Jacobson, who presented this week at the Raymond James Institutional Investors Conference, said Delta’s branded fares initiative continues to exceed the company’s early expectations, and per a Raymond James report sent to investors, Delta “sees further upside as leisure travelers are still in the education/understanding phase....

View this post on Instagram Delta’s new A350 “flagship”, due to enter passenger service on 30 October ✈️ A post shared by Ned Russell (@airbus777) on Oct 18, 2017 at 3:49am PDT View this post on Instagram View this post on Instagram Delta’s new A350 “flagship”, due to enter passenger service on 30 October ✈️ A post shared by Ned Russell (@airbus777) on Oct 18, 2017 at 3:49am 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.The holiday season is one of the busiest times of the year to travel. In the days leading up to and following the Christmas holiday, millions of travelers will pass through the departure halls of the world’s airports....

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.You can currently earn up to 70,000 SkyMiles thanks to elevated welcome offers available with the Gold Delta SkyMiles and Platinum Delta SkyMiles Amex cards, and it just so happens that the Delta Reserve is also offering an increased bonus....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers hereHere’s another great opportunity to buy United miles on the cheap! The airline is once again offering a bonus when you purchase MileagePlus miles — this current promo’s available today through 11:59pm CDT on Monday, August 15. If you do purchase miles during this timeframe, though, you can earn up to a 100% bonus.This appears to be a tiered offer, with bonuses ranging from 25% to 100% depending on how many miles you buy....

Our big winter family vacation this year was a trip up north that included staying five nights at the perfectly located Westin Whistler. We have stayed here before so pretty much knew what to expect, but since it has been four years since I last covered this hotel, I’ll do an update of our impressions of the property this time around. If you are interested in this sort of trip, here are some other posts about our trip as well as a video on how to save money on a trip to Whistler with some shots inside the hotel!...

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.Just yesterday, The Points Guy reported that the National Park Service would waive park fees at its parks that remained open. But, today, in response to conditions on the ground, some popular national parks, like Great Smoky Mountains National Park, are closing to the public....

One of Arizona’s most famous overlooks is no longer free for gawking. Effective immediately, the city of Page has instituted a “parking fee” to stop to see – and photograph – Horseshoe Bend, a landmark in the American southwest and part of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Parking fees are $10 per car and $5 per motorcycle, while commercial vans or buses are $35 (up to 14 passengers), $70 (up to 35 passengers), and $140 (over 35 passengers)....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.The Ink Bold with Ultimate Rewards card, which currently offers 50,000 points when you spend $5,000 within 3 months, is the Chase Sapphire Preferred business card equivalent. This means you can use these Ultimate Rewards points to transfer instantly at 1:1 ratios to United, Continental, British Airways, Korean Airlines, Hyatt, Priority Club, Marriott and Amtrak. This sign-up bonus alone is enough points for two roundtrip coach awards or one way in business to Europe - not bad for a card with no annual fee for the first year ($95 thereafter)....

One of the most unusual routes operated by any commercial airline is returning this summer. Russian airline Yakutia is resuming nonstop service to Anchorage, Alaska, from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport (PKC), located on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far-east region of Russia. The nonstop service won’t be around for long, though. The carrier plans to fly round-trip flights offered on just three dates later this summer.Yakutia is an airline based Yakutsk, Russia, a city of about 300,000 inhabitants....

Editor’s note: This post has been updated with the new card offers. It was originally published on May 8, 2019.If you have the good fortune of living in or frequently traveling to a JetBlue hub, such as Boston, New York (JFK) or Fort Lauderdale, you may want to consider signing up for one of the carrier’s two credit cards.The JetBlue Plus Card comes with a 40,000-point sign-up bonus after spending $1,000 in the first 90 days and paying the annual fee....

Jakarta’s infamous traffic saved this man’s life.Sony Setiawan, an Indonesian man who works for the country’s finance ministry, was booked to fly on Monday’s ill-fated Lion Air flight JT610, which crashed in the Java Sea minutes after takeoff, but he got stuck in traffic and missed the flight.“I usually take (Flight) JT610 — my friends and I always take this plane,” the man told AFP on Monday. Setiawan says that he was stuck on a toll road for hours trying to get to Jakarta’s Soekarno–Hatta International Airport (CKG) to make the flight, which left for Pangkal Pinang (PGK) at 6:20am local time....