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During the COVID-19 crisis, our team has temporarily ceased taking review trips. However, we are publishing new flight, hotel and lounge reviews, from trips taken before the lockdown. We have also been publishing a selection of our most popular reviews from the past year. We hope this will help you choose once we’re all ready to start booking trips again.Bear in mind that for the foreseeable future, service on board will be greatly reduced to lower the risk of contamination, and that the ground experience — with lounges closed or without food and amenities — will also be very different from what was available before the pandemic....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Love the NBA as much as you love a good award redemption? TPG Contributor J. Keith van Straaten understands. Following his Football Frenzy and Baseball Binge earlier this year, here’s his way to see a whole lot of basketball for not that many points and miles. (All arena photos are courtesy of each venue.)If you’ve ever wanted an itinerary that would let you see all 30 National Basketball Association teams in three weeks for around 100,000 points and miles, you need look no further....

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....

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.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, which allows you to cancel flights without penalty by 11pm Eastern Time within one day of booking. Remember: Fares may disappear quickly, so book right away and take advantage of Orbitz’s courtesy cancellation if you’re unable to travel....

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....

TAP Air Portugal has been making a big push in the United States, adding flights to new destinations around the country — with more on the way — and upgrading aircraft throughout North America, with new additions including the Airbus A330neo and A321LR.Now, the carrier hopes to expand its Miles & Go loyalty program beyond the 280,000 U.S. members enrolled today, with growth to the elite ranks as well. And the easiest way to accomplish that?...

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.I was looking for a cheap flight back home from O’Hare (ORD) to Los Angeles (LAX), and that proved difficult, until a one-way I was tracking on Google Flights came down in price. The downside was that it didn’t leave until after 10:30pm, but that wasn’t enough of a deterrent.The Boeing 737 at O’Hare that will take me home to Los Angeles....

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We have a favorite wing restaurant that we are patrons of once a week. Seeing the owner struggle to stay afloat over the last few weeks has had a big impact on me. In less than a week, the owner was putting out calls on social media to support the business as she was already having to lay off staff who had been with her for years. (shoutout to H&J Wings & Things in Newnan, Georgia)....

Love them or hate them, small plastic bathroom amenity bottles are vanishing from an ever-growing number of hotel rooms. In May 2018, both Marriott and IHG announced plans to ditch the mini-bottles at certain brands.Now the InterContinental Hotels Group is announcing the end of mini-bottles at all of its hotels. The hotel group will transition its entire portfolio of almost 843,000 guest rooms to “bulk-size bathroom amenities.” The process is expected to be completed by mid-2021....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available – View the current offers hereThose of you who log into Ultimaterewards.com or follow the Chase Sapphire Facebook page might have noticed the start of a special campaign today called “Catch The Points Guy.”This summer I got the opportunity to partner up with Chase Sapphire on a fun campaign designed to help people maximize their Chase Sapphire Preferred cards and Ultimate Rewards points....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.All this week TPG contributor Jason Steele took us through the basics of Maximizing Prepaid and Reload Cards for Points and Miles with a series on the topic including Maximizing Reload Cards for Points and Miles: Vanilla vs. Green Dot vs. PayPal vs. REloadit and Maximizing Prepaid and Reloadable Cards for Points and Miles: Reloadable Strengths and Weaknesses....

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.Occasionally an opportunity to earn bonus miles or points will come up that’s a bit different than the standard offers most flyers are aware of....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Citi is a TPG advertising partnerExisting users of the Citi AAdvantage Platinum Select World Elite Mastercard learned on Tuesday that the card will soon be getting a refresh. For the first time, the co-branded American Airlines credit card from Citi will offer bonus categories beyond extra points on purchases with the airline itself, plus an additional flight discount benefit....

Have you always dreamed of free Starbucks? Well, you could be in luck. As part of its 2018 holiday promotion, the mega coffee chain is giving customers the opportunity to win free Starbucks for life, as well as other prizes.With the promotion, you can win one of the following 10 prizes: Starbucks for Life; Starbucks for a Year; Starbucks for Six Months; Starbucks for Three Months; Starbucks for a Month; 1,000 Bonus Stars; 500 Bonus Stars; 250 Bonus Stars; 125 Bonus Stars; and Starbucks for Life Coffee Collection....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Priority Pass continues to expand its offering in the US in the form of restaurants instead on lounges. Johnny Rockets at Syracuse Hancock International Airport (SYR) has been added to the Priority Pass network.The restaurant is located post-security in Concourse B and is open from 10:30am through the last flight departure, although Priority Pass says it’s only open until 7:00pm....

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.Gameway announced Thursday that Priority Pass members will now have access to its video game lounges in the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW).Gameway lounges are a relatively new addition to DFW. While it’s not the “luxe” experience you’ll find in a Centurion Lounge, the gaming lounges definitely serve up some quality, entertainment to pass the time....

Southwest Airlines says its bottom line has taken a hit due to the groundings of the Boeing 737 MAX planes, as well as a dispute with mechanics and weather-related problems.Those factors caused about 9,400 flight cancellations for the airline, and Southwest predicts that its profits for the first quarter of 2019, which ends Sunday, will take a $150 million hit due to those interruptions.Southwest flies the largest fleet of Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes in the US, with 34 of the plane model....

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 second episode of Talking Points features Kristin Lemkau, chief marketing officer at JPMorgan Chase, and Sarah Silbert, TPG’s senior credit cards editor. Lemkau tells The Points Guy about the marketing and evolution of the Chase Sapphire products and what customers can expect from Sapphire lounges....