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Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.[tpg_rating tpg-rating-score=“78” ground-experience=“7” cabin-seat=“19” amens-ife=“13” food-bev=“18” service=“21” pros=“Amazing Wi-Fi and good IFE, great service, free meal” cons=“Surprisingly worn seats for a young plane, not a lot of room to work” /]I fly back and forth between the coasts often, since I live in New York but my family is in the San Francisco Bay Area. These frequent trips have led me to earn Alaska MVP elite status, and I’ve shied away from most other airlines on the five-plus-hour journeys....

American Airlines’ operations at New York’s Kennedy Airport (JFK) have taken quite a hit over the past few years. And Labor Day weekend’s schedule update was more bad news for New York-based American Airlines flyers.As reported by Enilria on the Airliners forum – and confirmed by TPG – around a dozen different American Airlines routes from JFK have been reduced or suspended starting in November 2019.Some of these cuts are necessary as American Airlines deals with the extended grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX, which has just been extended through December 3....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Update 11/8/2018: American Airlines expanded from the original six routes to add an additional 11:Austin (AUS) – Los Angeles (LAX)Los Angeles (LAX) – Portland (PDX)Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) – Fort Lauderdale (FLL)Orlando (MCO) – Pittsburgh (PIT)Las Vegas (LAS) – Los Angeles (LAX)Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) – New Orleans (MSY)Phoenix (PHX) – Las Vegas (LAS)Boston (BOS) – Greensboro, NC (GSO)Orlando (MCO) – Baltimore (BWI)Los Angeles (LAX) – Honolulu (HNL)Phoenix (PHX) – Honolulu (HNL)For months, Delta has been impressing mileage collectors with a stream of award flash sales....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Update 2/2/17: This offer has now been extended until February 22, 2017.Update 10/27/16: This post has been adjusted to clarify how the 30% points bonus works. If you spent $50,000 in the first year, you’d earn an additional 15,000 points; the bonus is based on spend rather than on the total number of points earned over the year....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.American Express has been on a roll with customer experience improvements recently. In June, they unveiled a tool to determine users’ eligibility for welcome bonuses before a hard-inquiry was performed on their credit report.Now, cardholders are reportedly receiving emails that tracks their progress toward meeting a new credit card’s minimum spend requirement.The example on Doctor of Credit showed an The Amex EveryDay® Credit Card from American Express, which had a $2,000 minimum spend requirement, and a quarter-filled bar showing that the account holder had spent $628 so far....

Boeing formally accepted responsibility Thursday for the crashes of two 737 MAX aircraft that led to a worldwide grounding of the airplanes.CEO Dennis Muilenburg posted a video statement on Twitter with a written summary, saying, “We at Boeing are sorry for the lives lost in the recent 737 accidents, and are relentlessly focused on safety to ensure tragedies like this never happen again.“The full statement referenced the preliminary report on the Ethiopian Air crash, and acknowledged the role in both accidents played by the MAX’s faulty Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, known as MCAS, which played a role in both crashes according to preliminary findings....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.TPG reader Adam is facing a frustrating situation:“I travel often for work but I have a difficult time reaching higher than Silver on Delta. I fly short distances and two-segment road trips often. Currently I have traveled 42 segments and have accrued 29,000 MQMs (Silver status) and I am not sure if I will reach Gold by end of this year....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Today TPG Contributor Jason Steele looks at the strengths and weaknesses of the prominent transferable points programs to help readers strategize when deciding where to bank their points and miles.Last month, Citi’s ThankYou Rewards became the fourth major transferable points program, joining Chase Ultimate Rewards (UR), American Express Membership Rewards (MR), and the Starwood Preferred Guest Program (SPG)....

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.Per this FlyerTalk thread, there are some lovely $300 one-way or $600-$700 round-trip deals right now from SFO and other Bay Area airports to Gotenburg, Sweden. Tickets must be purchased by February 23, and there is no advance purchase requirement (meaning you can fly to Europe tomorrow if you want!). Similar to last week’s LAX - Billund, Denmark fares, these flights can be purchased as one-way flights as well....

June 28 saw WorldPride head to New York City to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. TPG had their own special float in the parade which was, of course aviation themed. The TPG Boeing 747 “Equality Airlines” featured TPG staff and readers from around the world raising money for the Rainbow Road charity.To celebrate this special occasion, Virgin Atlantic organised a special one-off flight from London Heathrow (LHR) to New York (JFK) that was packed with as much LGTBQ+ pride as you could fit in one aircraft....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.During a recent trip to the Visa pour L’Image Perpignan photography festival in France, I transited through Barcelona. And while I usually end up staying on a friend’s couch while checking out the sights of Barcelona, this time there were a lot of us in town, so I opted to grab a hotel for the last night before flying back to Los Angeles....

I felt like I’d arrived at a super cool, progressive high school in the Virginia suburbs.After driving through subdivisions of huge cookie-cutter houses, I pulled up to a gatehouse, with two modern-looking buildings in the distance. I was directed into the visitor’s parking lot.I cleared security, and the guard took me over to a big map on the wall.“We have two buildings on this campus,” he said, pointing to the diagram....

Brand new to our Insider Series, where travel-industry professionals write about their work under pseudonyms, TPG Contributor “Marty McFly” is a pilot for a major American airline who has agreed to share how airline pilots are chosen and trained to fly the big birds.Have you ever thought about how complex an endeavor each airline flight really is? You’re riding in a machine that often weighs more than half a million pounds, carrying tens of thousands of gallons of fuel, in an environment that — without a thin layer of steel around you — isn’t particularly life-sustaining....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.In a recent episode of Jerry Seinfeld’s Netflix show “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” with guest John Mulaney, Seinfeld cracked open a can of worms that has long been a mysterious, yet tantalizing topic for credit card experts. His envy-provoking claim? That the American Express Centurion Card — also known as the Black Card — exists thanks to Seinfeld himself....

Lately, hotel and cruise companies have been doubling down on efforts to clean up one aspect of their business — single-use plastic. Last week, Virgin Voyages founder and CEO, Sir Richard Branson, reiterated his commitment to launching a cruise line that completely bans single-use plastics: not just straws but also water bottles and stirrers, shopping bags, condiment packets, to-go cups and other one-time-use items.The bold move comes at a time when many companies seem fixated on ridding the world of single-use plastics (or, at least, straws)....

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.Any Uber riders in the house? With the launch of Uber Rewards last year, loyal riders were given the opportunity to earn Uber cash credit. While it’s not a stunning amount, it’s a solid reward for riders in an otherwise reward-free program....

As we near the final month of our Prizeo campaign, we’ve decided to up the stakes.That’s right — for today, and today only, your donation to our Prizeo campaign can not only win you the grand prize of 1,000,000 True Blue JetBlue points but two round-trip flights in JetBlue Mint as well.JetBlue Mint, if you’re unfamiliar, is the winner of the 2018 TPG Award for best domestic premium cabin. We ranked mint, lauded for its unique (for the US domestic market) enclosed-suite “throne” seats, abundant storage space and trendy dining offerings, an 86/100 in our review, calling it one the best way to fly transcon in the US....

On Wednesday, JetBlue rolled out one of the most comprehensive coronavirus-response plans we’ve seen so far. The carrier detailed new cleaning procedures, mandating temperature checks for front-line employees, and, most impressive of all, offering up a costly guarantee that travelers won’t be seated directly next to a stranger, through at least July 6.It’s all part of the carrier’s sweeping safety initiative, which JetBlue president Joanna Geraghty hopes will help would-be travelers feel comfortable enough to book flights with the airline....

As you walk up to Emirates’ one and only A319, it looks more or less like any other single-aisle Airbus. Sure, the livery’s a bit subtle and the fuselage finish looks like it’s fresh from the factory floor, but by and large this is just an ordinary medium-haul jet. Until you step inside.Emirates operates a fleet exclusively made of wide-body planes, including a mix of Boeing 777s and Airbus A380s, so what’s this little Airbus A319 doing here?...