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Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.A couple weeks ago, the AAdvantage eShopping portal offered an amazing deal shopping bonus of 35 miles per dollar spent when shopping with eBags. eBags has a huge selection of items including luggage, handbags, laptop cases, and accessories like sunglasses, wallets, hats and watches so it was easy to find a bunch of things to order…and I might have gone a little overboard!...

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.TPG Contributor Katie Genter recently flew an open-jaw itinerary from Austin (AUS) to Kuala Lumpur (KUL) with a return trip from Jakarta (CGK). Her return from Tokyo’s Narita Airport (NRT) to Chicago O’Hare (ORD) was on a Japan Airlines 777-300ER. Read on for her impressions of JAL’s economy-class experience. (All photos are by the author.)Although JAL didn’t make TPG’s list of the top airlines to fly international economy, I’d heard good things about JAL’s economy class — especially the spacious seating on the 777-300ER — and was excited to check it out for myself....

South African Airways is bringing its new Airbus A350 aircraft to Europe. As of February, South African’s existing route to Frankfurt will get the A350 aircraft — the airline’s second destination to get the new plane.As reported by One Mile at a Time, the carrier’s A350 will fly between Johannesburg (JNB) and Frankfurt (FRA) as of February 7, 2020. The A350-operated flight will fly on the following schedule:SA260 Johannesburg (JNB) 8:25 p....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Several TPG staffers recently took off for Vegas Uncork’d. With their Chase Sapphire Preferred cards, they were given special access to events, where they were able to rub shoulders with some of the biggest names in the culinary world. Read on for some food- and travel-centric conversation, as told by TPG Associate Editor Emily McNutt.A couple weeks ago, Team TPG took off for Vegas with our Chase Sapphire Preferred cards in-hand....

Buckle up. What follows is a tale of the stars and universe aligning perfectly to give my family the best mistake-fare trip that ever was — and arguably ever will be.In 2015, I was stationed just outside of Tokyo on active duty in the Navy. I was just three years into becoming a points-and-miles fanatic but had developed a fairly comprehensive award-travel system and spent a lot of free time on it....

If you received a silent phone call (or several) from Hawaii last week, it was probably a butt dial. Or, more specifically, a foot dial.Last Thursday, a gecko made a few house calls to everyone in the recent call history of Ke Kai Ola, the Marine Mammal Center hospital and education center that cares for Hawaiian monk seals, according to AP News.One of the recipients of these calls was Claire Simeone, marine mammal veterinarian and director of Ke Kai Ola, who was at lunch when the calls from the center started coming through....

A photo of an egg sandwich went viral last week (because this is the world we now live in) after a passenger onboard a Jetstar flight shared his snack on the internet. While Howard Priestly from Perth had low expectations for the Australian low-cost carrier, he did not expect his $9 sandwich to be so unappetizing.“It was just inedible,” Priestley told The West Australian. “The thing was basically devoid of filling other than a perfunctory smear of margarine, a tiny bit of lettuce and a bit of egg....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.The end of 2012 is fast approaching, and though I’m in a great position with my elite status qualification - Executive Platinum on American and Platinum on both United and Delta - I have burned through quite a few of my American AAdvantage miles lately, so I have been putting together a strategy to get my balance back up so I can put more of those miles to use flying Oneworld partners like British Airways and Cathay - and who knows, maybe even a trip on Qantas next year if I get down to Australia....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.TPG reader Donald tweeted me to ask@thepointsguy – “Do any credit cards offer bonuses for pharmacy purchases?“I always advocate maximizing the points you earn on each purchase, and with healthcare costs going through the roof, it makes sense to pay close attention to which card you use on pharmacy purchases. There’s one card that does offer a bonus for spending at pharmacies: the Citi Hilton HHonors Visa Signature Card offers three points per dollar spent on drugstore purchases....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here – The Platinum Card® from American ExpressAfter several delays and a near-miss from Hurricane Irma, the Park Hyatt St. Kitts finally opened its doors to guests on November 1, 2017. Based on the experience of one TPG contributor, the resort struggled to get out of the gates early on, with dismal occupancy rates during what should have been a busy time of the year....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Las Vegas caters to high-rollers, and there are plenty of suite options along The Strip. Today, TPG Contributor Peter Rothbart highlights several opportunities for award travelers to experience Sin City in style.Las Vegas offers an incredibly wide range of hotel options. On an average night, you can probably find rooms for anywhere from $20 to $20,000, sometimes separated by only a few blocks....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Ever since I reached Platinum Medallion status with Delta last year, I’ve been thinking about how I’d re-qualify (or maybe even go for Diamond) this year. I knew that I’d be relying heavily on buying discounted business-class fares on partner airlines to meet both the Medallion Qualification Mile and Medallion Qualification Dollar requirements for Medallion status.Sometimes the stars align and a great flight deal appears — such as business-class fares on SkyTeam partner Aeromexico between New York (JFK) and Santiago, Chile (SCL), with a stop in Mexico City (MEX) for under $1,000 round-trip....

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.An Air India flight attendant was injured Monday morning after falling out the door of a parked Boeing 777 aircraft at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (BOM).The cabin crew was prepping the aircraft for boarding for its flight to New Delhi (DEL) when the flight attendant, Harsha Lobo, 52, fell onto the tarmac while the step ladder was being attached....

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.On Monday, Cathay Pacific published a — what many thought to be — too-good-to-be-true mistake fare. For less than $1,000, Cathay was showing round-trip business-class and first-class fares between Asia and the US. If you were one of the lucky buyers, Cathay Pacific is starting your 2019 off with good news....

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....

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.Delta employees don’t really celebrate Valentine’s Day. Instead, they celebrate Profit Sharing Day. Thursday is a particularly impressive one, with a cool $1.3 billion being distributed across the company’s 86,000+ full-time employees. Said another way, it’s a whopping 14% bonus on an employee’s base pay....

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 DoubleTree Hilton in Hull, England, has offered 28 homeless people free rooms and meals on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day following a controversial cancellation by the nearby Britannia Royal hotel.The original booking was made by Raise the Roof Hull homeless project....

Severe winds have been gusting across New England and the mid-Atlantic, causing flight delays and even cancellations. At New York-JFK, pilots and airlines received this data to review during their preflight preparations:METAR information for New York-JFK. Image via AviationWeather.gov, modified by author.The output shows plenty of visibility, blue skies and no thunderstorms (or snowstorms, for that matter). However, it’s a touch windy, with gusts up to 56 miles per hour. That’s going to stir up all sorts of dust and trash on the New York City streets....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Offer expired September 3, 2013.I’ve earned hundreds of thousands of Starpoints over the years and my favorite way to use them is with Cash & Points awards. I generally feel like it gives you the most bang for your buck - especially when staying at higher end properties in Europe.The great thing about Cash & Points is that the cash value is pegged in dollars and most taxes and fees are included....

We’re always on the lookout for Hi Fly’s A380. That’s because that particular A380 aircraft was originally owned by Singapore Airlines, which means it’s still equipped with Singapore Suites in first class. Hi Fly contracts out the plane on a “wet lease” basis — meaning both the plane and crew are from Hi Fly — so it can pop up pretty much anywhere in the world on behalf of almost any carrier....