Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.If you read many other frequent flyer blogs, I’m sure you’ve heard that Chase recently inserted “Limited Time Offer” into their marketing copy for the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card. While this isn’t completely newsworthy - I mean all of these credit card offers are technically “limited time offers,” it was weird that they randomly added it out of the blue....
This is a family-centric travel site where most of the trips we take and talk about include kiddos, but I’m also all for the kid-free vacation. If you have the luxury of taking some trips without the little ones along for the ride, I think everyone is the better for it. The kids get some time to bond with grandparents, cousins, etc. and the parents get a chance to breathe and be more than just mom or dad for a minute or two....
Flying out of New York City? You can now sidestep Manhattan’s gridlock and take a helicopter to any of the city’s three airports.BLADE, which launched helicopter transports from Manhattan to New York’s JFK Airport in March, announced on Wednesday that it expanded its service to all airports in the NYC area, including New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport and LaGuardia Airport in Queens.The new routes, called BLADE Continuous, are between LaGuardia and Manhattan’s Downtown/Wall Street Heliport, and passengers can reach Newark by helicopter from BLADE Lounge East (East 34th Street Heliport)....
The blue waters of French Polynesia are a postcard-worthy sight, and Tahiti regularly appears on many travelers’ bucket lists. Unfortunately, getting there using points and miles isn’t all that easy, thanks to limited flight options and hit-or-miss award availability. This is especially true in business class. In fact, our research of over 120,000 data points from earlier this year found that your overall chance of a successful, business-class award search is (at best) 2....
Being overloaded makes humans do funny things. Our focus narrows on the task at hand, tunnel vision sets in and it becomes difficult to notice other things. Our brain shuts out other senses and our hearing is the first to go.Have you been driving your car on the motorway in heavy rain, only to realize minutes later that your indicator was flashing away? In hindsight, it was obvious that it was still flashing, but due to being so focused on the road ahead, you missed this obvious sign....
Reader Questions are answered twice a week by TPG Senior Points & Miles Contributor Ethan Steinberg.Unless you spend significantly more money to purchase flexible or refundable airfare, the majority of plane tickets on most major airlines are not refundable (after the 24-hour window mandated by the U.S. Department of Transportation). TPG reader Steve wants to know if he can get a refund when the airline changes his schedule …[pullquote source=“TPG READER STEVE”]I bought a round-trip ticket from JFK to San Diego for my mother-in-law....
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 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....
View this post on Instagram The new LGA! New York LaGuardia terminal B eastern concourse (2018), by HOK. #airportarchitecture A post shared by Airport Architecture (@airportarchitecture) on Dec 1, 2018 at 12:54pm PST View this post on Instagram View this post on Instagram The new LGA! New York LaGuardia terminal B eastern concourse (2018), by HOK. #airportarchitecture A post shared by Airport Architecture (@airportarchitecture) on Dec 1, 2018 at 12:54pm PST...
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.Just in time for the winter shopping season, Chase is offering a Chase Pay promotion. This promotion gives you 1,500 Chase Ultimate Rewards points if you use Chase Pay with a qualified card five times between October 1 and December 31, 2018....
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.So how’s United’s Polaris rollout coming along? Heh… we’re getting there. Slowly.More than three years have now passed since United CEO Oscar Munoz unveiled the carrier’s much-improved business-class product. This week, Patrick Quayle, UA’s Vice President of International Network, confirmed that the carrier is on track to hit a major milestone by the end of 2019....
With the timeline for re-entry into service unclear and the aircraft grounded worldwide, many airlines have made the decision to store their Boeing 737 MAXes at secondary airports and desert-storage facilities rather than allow them to take up space at major airports. Though reports indicated that the Boeing 737 MAX could re-enter service as soon as this June, airlines do not seem to be as confident in that timeline. Last week, Southwest Airlines and American Airlines announced that the plane would be removed from schedules through the busy summer travel season....
My first interest in Las Vegas took root fifty plus years ago when I was a teenager. Two movies, Viva, Las Vegas and the original Ocean’s Eleven planted a seed of interest in me for this part mystical, part mythical city of illusion.The movies highlighted a city of excitement, energy, excess, exuberance and fun. One starred beautiful, young people, Elvis and Ann Margaret, surrounded by more beautiful and young people doing what young and beautiful people do....
Despite the huge reduction in demand for passenger flights over the past few months, the requirement to transport freight still exists. As there are fewer passengers, airlines are turning to freight to make a profit on the flights that they are operating.With fewer flights operating between key cities, the cargo space onboard these limited services are now sold for a premium. Bananas from South America, fish from Norway and lobsters from Alaska all need transporting rapidly to reach the supermarket shelves as fresh as customers expect....
Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.On Friday I wrote that Chase might be changing the Hyatt Visa offering this week, but unfortunately I didn’t have the details at the time. The Hyatt Visa was on my “to do” list for a while, so I went ahead and applied because I didn’t want to lose out on the sign-up bonus of two free nights in a suite, which to me is worth at least $1,000....
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.If you have a license from a select few states, that piece of plastic will soon no longer be enough identification to get you past TSA security checkpoints. And at airports all across the US this week, the TSA is posting signs to remind you of that....
You may have noticed some changes on the site over the past few weeks and today we’re excited to launch the full redesign of the TPG website on both desktop and mobile.This new look won’t have any affect on the functionality of our site, but instead, it should make our site easier to read. This change isn’t random, but it came from conversations with our readers about what you all liked and disliked about the TPG digital experience....
It’s been 23 days since the United States federal government entered a partial shut down, now the longest in the nation’s history. As a result, thousands of government employees have either been working without pay or have been furloughed. Among them: most of the Federal Aviation Administration’s 3,000 safety inspectors.But according to the Associated Press, the FAA has announced that it has brought back approximately 500 furloughed inspectors, with more expected to return to work soon....
Passengers aboard a United Airlines flight bound for Hong Kong from Newark (EWR) were stranded for more than 14 hours at a frigid Canadian airfield after the flight diverted after just four hours in the air. While diversions are rare, flights are usually back up and airborne in a matter of a hours. However, United Airlines flight UA179 experienced another complication as the flight prepared to take off following the diversion....
Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Following a brief layover visit to Beijing, it was time to continue my trip home to New York from Singapore after my flight to Changi on the world’s longest flight. The first leg was onboard Air China’s new 787-9 Dreamliner, while my final flight was operated by the airline’s Boeing 747-8 — easily one of my favorite wide-body planes....
