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Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Pack your (not too heavy) bags, because you’re off to Europe this fall! Low-cost carrier WOW Air flies from Boston (BOS) and Baltimore (BWI), arriving at Iceland’s one and only international airport, Keflavik (KEF). WOW recently made headlines offering $99+ fares to KEF, and although availability isn’t quite as good as it once was, there are still great deals to be had....

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.France’s Château de Versailles will soon add another event of historic proportions to its repertoire.The iconic royal retreat has seen the reign of several kings named Louis, had visits from the Pope, witnessed one very famous treaty and will soon host its very first electronic music rave, Versailles Electro....

JetBlue Business Card overviewThe JetBlue Business Card delivers a tremendous sign-up bonus of 100,000 points, a great return on JetBlue purchases and a 5,000-point anniversary bonus that helps justify the card’s $99 annual fee. Small business owners can add additional cards for employees at no extra cost. And with a free checked baggage allowance, 10% rebate on award redemptions and 50% savings on eligible inflight purchases, this makes the JetBlue Business Card highly valuable for the airline’s loyal flyers, even for infrequent travelers....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Now through December 10, 2014, Hyatt Gold Passport is running a promotion offering up to a 30% bonus on purchased points. While a 30% bonus is pretty standard for Hyatt buy-points promos, the current offer is better than past promotions, since the bonus isn’t tiered based on how many points you purchase. You can score the 30% bonus when buying as few as 5,000 points....

It’s been a hectic day in Venezuela to say the least. National Assembly President Juan Guaido — the opposition leader — declared himself President of Venezuela, an act that was quickly followed by recognition from the Organization of American States, and from the US government. The swearing in and subsequent announcements led to immediate backlash from President Nicolás Maduro, who has not stepped down. In a statement addressing a crowd outside the presidential palace, Maduro ordered all US embassy personnel out of the country within 72 hours....

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.This story has been updated with the exact times of the service outage.Between 8pm EST on Monday, November 18 and 9am EST on Tuesday, November 19, customers will be unable to book new tickets or change existing reservations as Air Canada migrates to a new reservation system....

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.Just days after British Airways made waves by flying a Boeing 747 sporting the 1960s-vintage livery of its predecessor BOAC, another airline revealed an airplane painted to resemble the jets of days gone by.Austrian Airlines has unveiled its vintage-style Airbus A320, painted in the company’s 1980s colors, which joins the ranks of other airplanes crossing European and American skies today but looking like they’re out of a documentary from decades ago....

British Airways pilots have reached a new pay agreement just in time for the winter holidays.Terms of the new contract have not yet been made public, but the union said 90% of its members voted to approve the proposal.Earlier this year, British Airways pilots temporarily grounded the whole airline when they walked off the job.The demonstration happened amid a contract dispute, in which the British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) was pushing BA to increase its members’ wages....

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, Orbitz or Priceline, which allows you to cancel flights without penalty 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....

[tpg_rating tpg-rating-score=“77” ground-experience=“8” cabin-seat=“15” amens-ife=“8” food-bev=“23” service=“23” pros=“Optional inflight luxury upgrades; great service; timely flights.” cons=“Advance seat selection costs a lot; terrible, pricey Wi-Fi; uncomfortable armrest design; poor-quality headphones.” /]A recent trip to the United Arab Emirates gave me the opportunity to review Swiss Airlines’ service from New York-JFK to Zurich, as well as a connection from Zurich to Dubai. I’ve flown United Airlines for the majority of my life, but my growing familiarity with the Star Alliance program as a whole has me branching out to new partner airlines....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Airport hotels are notorious for being run-down at worst and bland at best, but the Hyatt Regency, one of the newest properties near LAX, provided the opportunity to break the mold.The history of the hotel is a little complicated: The hotel was a Hyatt Regency in the 1960s, more recently became the Concourse Hotel at Los Angeles International Airport, and then, in October 2016, was taken over by Hyatt as its first fully branded hotel near the airport, giving it a $75 million renovation that was completed in January 2017....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Valentine’s Day is coming up quickly, and if you plan on purchasing flowers, candy, jewelry or other gifts for your loved ones, make sure to do so via an online shopping portal to earn extra points.Why You Should Use a PortalIf you’re not familiar with portals, here’s a little info on what they are and why you should use them....

Travel envy– it affects the best of us. Especially on social media. However, one of the most infuriating aspects of this envy is arguably when you come across a picture of a place that looks interesting but have no idea where it is, or how you could get there yourself.Enter EasyJet’s new travel app feature: Look&Book. Launched Oct. 16, Look&Book boasts the ability to not only find where a picture was taken, but how to book the closest EasyJet flight available to that location....

There’s a new private plane service on the market and it wants you to rethink how you get from Point A to B. BlackBird gives you the option to create your own flight, or join someone else’s if there is an open seat. Boasting a fleet of around 600 aircraft and 700 commercially-certified pilots, the company pairs aircraft owners, pilots and flyers through a simple app — think Airbnb meets Uber....

You now have a winter 2019-2020 escape plan, courtesy of Air Canada. The airline announced this week that it will operate seasonal service between Toronto (YYZ) and Honolulu (HNL) next winter with a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.Air Canada’s New Air Canada Signature Class cabin on the 787 Dreamliner (Photo courtesy of Air Canada)There are other options to the Aloha State from east coast of North America, but flying nearly 4,700 miles aboard a Dreamliner will be alluring to AvGeeks....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Hopefully you went ahead and told all of your friends to apply for a Chase Sapphire Reserve while the referral bonus promotion was ongoing — as of today, all that’s left is a sterile webpage and a few dusty memories.A TPG reader notified us that the CSR refer-a-friend link now offers up a simple, somber message: “Thank you for visiting Chase....

Not able to get that special someone their very own helicopter for Christmas? Well, we have the next best thing. BLADE, the upscale, on-demand helicopter service taking people from New York to the city’s summer playground in the Hamptons, has just released the new Unlimited pass, which means you can gift your loved ones (or let’s be honest, yourself) a whole summer’s worth of helicopter and seaplane flights between Manhattan and six Hamptons destinations....

The pilot of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 that crashed shortly after takeoff on Sunday, killing all 157 on board, reported that he was having problems controlling the Boeing 737 MAX and wanted to return to the origin airport.According to Ethiopian Airlines’ CEO Tewolde Gebremariam, the pilot’s conversations with air traffic controllers showed that he didn’t indicate other external issues with the aircraft, such as a bird strike. As told to The Wall Street Journal, Gebremariam instead said that the pilot told ATC he was having “flight-control problems....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.One of the first airline lounges I ever visited was the Continental Presidents Club at Newark Airport (EWR), just after the security checkpoint at Terminal C. I remember it feeling crowded and a bit less inspiring than I had imagined, but with free snacks and drinks, it clearly beat waiting to board in the gate area, as I had done for years....