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Southwest Airlines flight attendant Rene Steinaker has filed a lawsuit against the carrier, accusing two pilots of hiding a camera in an aircraft lavatory, livestreaming the activity and watching it in the cockpit on Feb. 27, 2017, according to a filing in the federal court for the District of Arizona. The alleged incident happened on a Southwest Airlines flight from Pittsburgh to Phoenix on Feb. 27, 2017.In the lawsuit filing, first reported by the Arizona Republic, Steinaker said the pilot, Capt....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.It’s a stormy day in the Northeast, and to ease pressure on travelers heading through the area, four airlines just released travel change fee waivers for flights today.If you’re flying to/from the affected airports, you can utilize these change fee waivers to rebook yourself on a different date. Or, if you’re just connecting through the area, you can use these change fee waivers to reroute yourself through different airports or on different dates....

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.Editor’s note: This post was updated with additional information regarding a delay in construction. This post was originally published on June 26, 2018.London Heathrow’s plan to add a third runway has been delayed, pushing the project deadline from 2026 to 2028-2029....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Sometimes you can turn a vacation disaster into an unexpected gift. A vacation that was supposed to take us to the Maldives ended up bringing us to the Big Apple. No, NYC isn’t the Maldives, but our four nights in the Park Hyatt brand’s global flagship property were fantastic.BookingBoth my wife and I had signed up for the previous version of Hyatt’s cobranded Visa card, while the sign-up bonus was still two free nights at any Hyatt property in the world after you spent $2,000 within the first three months....

Another day, another monumental postponement blamed on the US government shutdown. Shortly after Alaska decided to push the launch of its flights from Paine Field – Snohomish County Airport (PAE) in Everett, Washington, from Feb. 11, 2019, to (at least) March 4, 2019, Delta has confirmed to TPG that it too will suffer a major delay.Not quite ready for takeoff thanks to the US government shutdownThe airline had previously scheduled for Jan....

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.There’s a new JetBlue airplane wearing a special livery, this time to celebrate the Boston Bruins hockey team. The airline revealed the special-colors plane, looking very different from the usual white-and-blue, at Boston Logan International Airport on Monday, as the Bruins compete in the NHL Eastern Conference Finals....

Update: As of 7:10pm local time (2:10pm ET), operations have resumed at LGW.All flights to and from London’s Gatwick Airport (LGW) remain suspended on Wednesday evening local time, as the airport is reporting “an air traffic control systems issue” in its control tower.At 5:47pm London time (12:47pm ET), the airport tweeted that all flights were suspended. The airport said it was working with Air Navigation Solutions (ANS), which provides the airport with air traffic control, to solve the issue....

Wedding season is in full swing, and there’s a good chance you’ve got a few to attend this summer. Considering the cost of gifts on top of airfare and hotels, wedding expenses can add up quickly, especially if you’re involved in the wedding party (or if you’re the one getting married). To help offset some of those costs, TPG contributor Lori Zaino guides us through the easiest ways to earn points and miles for the legion of wedding expenditures....

A 43-year-old El Al flight attendant has been in a coma for 10-days after contracting measles, CNN reported Wednesday. She’s thought to have contracted the virus in either Israel or New York, two places where measles cases have been appearing at a rapid rate in 2019.The hospitalization of the flight attendant is due to encephalitis, or brain swelling, which is a well-known and potentially fatal complication of measles. Although she was administered the Measles Mumps and Rubella (MMR) shot as a child, she only received one round of the vaccinations — leaving her at 93% immunity rather than the standard 97%....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.When it comes to top travel rewards credit cards, one of my favorite ways to save money and earn bonus points is by using Amex Offers. If you’re currently planning your fall trips and have at least one American Express card, you may want to check your account to see if you’re targeted for two new offers that just appeared....

The epic run of bad news for the troubled Boeing 737 MAX aircraft continues.On Friday, Reuters and the New York Times reported that a Boeing pilot found problems with a critical flight system two years before a pair of fatal crashes forced a worldwide grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX.346 people died in the October 2018 crash of Lion Air Flight 610 and the March 2019 crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.At the beginning of each November, the same question comes my way repeatedly and in many varieties. No matter how it is worded, the question is basically the same:“I’m miles short of re-qualifying for airline status. I am considering undertaking in order to re-qualify. Do you have any tips, and what do you think?“Yes readers, it is that time of the year when rational, intelligent people all of a sudden turn illogical in the pursuit of airline status....

This spring is a monumental one for New York City. Following the opening of Hudson Yards in March, the new Statue of Liberty Museum on Liberty Island is slated to open on May 16.The museum will be a big deal for tourists and New Yorkers — especially kids — who want to learn about Lady Liberty. Since 9/11, 80% of the more than 4.3 million visitors to Liberty Island are unable to access the museum inside the statue’s pedestal due to security restrictions....

As part of United’s December 1 Polaris launch, the airline opened its very first dedicated airport lounge at Chicago’s O’Hare airport (ORD). It’s easily the best lounge operated by a US carrier anywhere in the world, and I really enjoyed my four-hour visit. But one of the lounge’s most notable amenities hadn’t quite rolled out during my visit last month — a sit-down dining service, where guests can order appetizers, entrees and desserts off an a-la-carte menu....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.It’s not uncommon for large companies to issue smartphones to their employees, and to offer internal apps aimed at boosting efficiency. United Airlines does both.While various departments issue iPhones, it’s flight attendants you’ll see using them most. They have loads of information at their fingertips — frequent flyer status, which customers ordered special meals, who has a tight connection, and so on....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Earning airline miles using the traditional method (actually flying) is just one way to add to your account balance. While it’s increasingly harder to earn miles from flying, airlines make it relatively easy to accrue miles without flying — whether through top credit card offers or by utilizing shopping portals and dining reward programs. If these methods leave you short of your travel goals, you can also purchase miles directly from an airline....

Strange and utterly weird tourism campaigns (and online trolls, for that matter) aren’t news to us here. So our interest was piqued when we came across Vienna’s new ad effort, which hopes to lure prospective visitors with terrible reviews.Confused? So were we.According to Quartz, the city’s tourism board is highlighting some of the worst reviews they’ve received as part of their “Unrating Vienna” campaign. The ads plastered all over Austria’s capital city feature legitimate reviews from tourists who were, well, not too pleased with their experience....

Flying is an odd concept. You turn up at a glorified shopping center to make your way down a narrow corridor into a massive metal tube with 300 other people. That metal tube is then pressurized, accelerated down a 9,843 foot strip of concrete and launched seven miles up into the air. You then spend the next 12 hours hurtling through the sky at 550 mph before two people who you’ve never met have the job of bringing that metal tube safely back down to earth....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Before you get too busy with holiday commitments, family obligations and other end-of-year business, you should ensure you’ve crossed your proverbial “t"s and dotted your “i"s when it comes to your points and miles. Today, I’ll give a rundown of the top award travel tasks you need to complete by the end of 2016 to make sure you maximize your loyalty portfolio....

United Airlines has been sued by a passenger for not refunding a ticket for a flight that was canceled during the coronavirus outbreak.Passenger Jacob Rudolph alleged that United refused his request for a refund for flights he purchased from the airline that the carrier ultimately canceled.Rudolph – a Minnesota police officer, according to the New York Post – purchased three tickets at a cost of about $1,500 for his family to fly from Minneapolis/St....