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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....

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....

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.This has the potential to be an exceptional addition to the World of Hyatt program. As announced on Hyatt’s earnings call Wednesday morning, the chain shared plans to add Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH) as a loyalty partner, enabling members to earn and redeem Hyatt points at 500+ independently owned properties.The new program addition, expected to launch later this year, will require that members book SLH stays through Hyatt....

For any aviation geek, the sight of aircraft tails lined up at Los Angeles International Airport’s Tom Bradley International Terminal is iconic. At any given moment you can see liveries from around the world including British Airways, Singapore Airlines, Emirates and Air France widebodies lined up together.For countries around the world, big and small, having an airline of their own has served as a symbol of national pride and economic strength....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.One of the items on my to-do list for early 2015 was to take advantage of the annual $200 airline fee credit that comes with The Platinum Card® from American Express or The Business Platinum Card® from American Express cards. Using the full $200 credit allowed per calendar year really helps offset a chunk of the annual fees on these cards for us, but it also takes some strategy to maximize the value of the credit....

The polar vortex’s icy temperatures are slamming into the Midwest and churning toward the East Coast, leaving thousands of flight cancellations in its path. But despite this travel strife that flyers usually associate with winter weather, there is at least one bright spot to flying in the cold.Planes actually fly best when the air temperature is low. (If flights aren’t canceled due to snow, ice or wind, that is).Even though Chicago is colder than Antarctica right now, and people in Iowa have been advised to “avoid taking deep breaths, and minimize talking” outside because it is so frigid there, the intense Arctic blast is bringing great conditions for a flight, if not for the snow....

This story first appeared on our content partner Live from a Lounge, an aviation-focused blog based in India. The story appears on our site largely as it appeared on Live from a Lounge. Here is a link to the original post: SpiceJet adds daily Mumbai — Hong Kong flightsBack in April 2019, SpiceJet put out a press release announcing that it would launch flights from Mumbai to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Hong Kong; Colombo, Sri Lanka; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Kathmandu, Nepal, by the end of May....

JetBoo — er, JetBlue — is feeling festive this Halloween. On Oct. 31, 2018, for one-day only, JetBlue is giving flyers something sweet to eat — full-size candy bars on select flights.On more than 900 flights this Halloween, JetBlue will be serving more than 100,000 pieces of full-size candy. More specifically, JetBlue will be serving full-size Twizzlers and Starbust on board its flights on Oct. 31, during snack service.Not flying this Halloween with JetBlue?...

A healthy young American couple have died suddenly while on vacation in Fiji, according to the US State Department.David and Michelle Paul, of Fort Worth, Texas, were on a long-anticipated vacation on the tropical island when they came down with an illness one day before they were to fly home. Whatever they were stricken with moved quickly, and both died within days of each other in Fiji.In a statement, the US embassy for Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga and Tuvalu said it had no reason to believe at the moment that the Pauls’ deaths were evidence of a threat to public health, and that it was working with local authorities to determine what killed the couple....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Happy pumpkin spice latte season! Starbucks launched a new promotion Monday, offering up to 475 Bonus Stars for reloading $20 or more into your account on the official Starbucks app via Chase Pay.The promotion is valid between October 29 and December 12, 2018 and the Bonus Stars earning rate is as follows:1x: Your first $20+ reload via Chase Pay will earn you 125 Bonus Stars....

Update (Jan. 15, 2020): Royal Air Maroc’s Oneworld membership to begin in April 1Royal Air Maroc will join the Oneworld alliance on March 31, 2020, according to a report from French publication Air Journal, making it the alliance’s first on the African continent.“Our systems were at a higher level which facilitated their alignment with those of the Alliance; but also through the great efforts made by our teams, who were mobilized to make this grandiose project a success for Royal Air Maroc and for the Kingdom," Hamid Addou, CEO of Royal Air Maroc, said in a statement translated from French....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.We recently asked our TPG Lounge readers if they’ve been to a hotel they loved this year and if so, how they booked it. Here’s a look at some of our favorite answers, organized in no particular order by hotel brand. (Some responses have been lightly edited for style and clarity).SPG/MarriottWhether you’re planning an epic family vacation, a business trip or a romantic getaway, SPG and Marriott hotels — now part of the same loyalty program — definitely offer a wide range of exceptional hotels to choose from....

Next time you’re traveling through Toronto you might have a new dining option in your terminal. That’s because Uber Eats, Toronto Pearson and HMSHost have partnered to bring Uber Eats delivery to Toronto Pearson Airport’s (YYZ) Terminal 3.Deliveries are set to begin in the third quarter of 2019 to gates B22–B41 and C30–C36 in Terminal 3. Travelers in Terminal 3 will be able to order food from HMSHost restaurants including Caplansky’s Deli, Paramount Fine Foods, Smoke’s Burritorie, Smashburger or Fionn MacCools for delivery....

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. In this case, Orbitz or Expedia have cheap rates, but Priceline is selling this deal at the cheapest available prices....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Since Marriott announced its acquisition of SPG in late 2016, many diehard SPG loyalists like TPG began counting down the days to what we assumed was the impending demise of our beloved program. But on Monday, Marriott announced the full details of the new loyalty program, and while there are certainly winners and losers, we can rest easy knowing that many of our favorite perks like generous airline transfers will remain the same....

Travelers will have a unique opportunity to stay at properties across the globe for free in the coming weeks. Beginning on November 19th and running through November 25th, those willing to be creative and adventurous have the option to exchange goods or services for accommodations across the globe in a program called Barter Week. Accommodations vary as do the goods and services requested by hosts. This is the first year the worldwide program....