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Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Delta has been running some incredible award sales recently, including 24,000 SkyMiles round-trip to Europe; a slightly-better 22,000 SkyMiles round-trip to Europe; domestic flights from 10,000 miles round-trip; Mexico from 12,000 miles round-trip; Asia from 40,000 miles round-trip and Australia from 58,000 miles round-tripToday we have one of the most-impressive award sales yet: 30,000 SkyMiles round-trip to Hong Kong:At current TPG valuations, 30,000 SkyMiles are worth just $360....

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....

In a confrontation with American Airlines President Robert Isom in May, Transport Workers Union president John Samuelsen threatened the “bloodiest, ugliest battle that the United States labor movement ever saw.” In July, one of the union’s mechanics apparently took this rhetoric literally. Now, he’s facing up to 20 years of prison for his actions.As reported by the Miami Herald, Miami-based mechanic Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani was charged on Thursday with “willfully damaging, destroying or disabling an aircraft....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.One of the seldom-discussed perks of American Express’s range of OPEN business credit cards is that they offer a 3% discount on spending at Hyatt properties in the US (excluding Hyatt Place, Hyatt House and Hyatt Residence Club), up to savings of $500 per calendar year.As of January 1, 2013, however, Amex OPEN is going to up the discount to 5% up to $500 per calendar year – on spending up to $10,000....

Boeing has officially issued a safety message to operators of all 200 of its 737 MAX aircraft in service, advising how to handle the plane in an instance when erroneous data from a key sensor comes about. The statement, which was first reported by Bloomberg from an anonymous source on Tuesday night, comes just more than one week after Lion Air Flight 610, a Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, crashed off the coast of Indonesia, killing all 189 people on board....

“Reader Questions” are answered three days a week — Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays — by TPG Senior Writer Julian Mark Kheel.TPG reader Peyton sent us an email wondering if trip protection insurance might be a way for travelers to avoid paying hefty change fees for rebooking…[pullquote source=“TPG Reader Peyton”]If I purchase ‘trip protection’ when buying an airline ticket, would that mostly cover me if I had to rebook? I don’t mind paying a small fee for switching but the typical $200 is ridiculous....

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.The World of Hyatt program is already running a bonus points promotion that allows you to earn up to 60,000 additional points based on the number of eligible nights you stay at a Hyatt property through Nov....

El Al is set to continue its North American expansion in 2020 when the airline launches nonstop flights between Tel Aviv (TLV) and Chicago’s O-Hare (ORD) airport. While details are still very limited, Israeli business publication Globes has confirmed the new service.This isn’t the first time El Al has served the area. The airline ended service in 2007, leaving the city without a direct connection to Israel. With an estimated 291,000 Jewish residents, Chicago boasts a larger Jewish population than most Israeli cities....

A unique response given by United Airlines’ social media team to a passenger who requested to move to an empty seat after the doors were closed has gone viral.Most of us wouldn’t think twice about leaving a full row if so many coach seats were available on a flight, but United explained why these particular seats were different.For the latest travel news, deals, and points and miles tips please subscribe to The Points Guy daily email newsletterWith the advent of different classes of service in the economy cabin, the waters have been muddied a bit....

The TPG Awards will be back this December, and the team is hard at work preparing for a second, unforgettable show. But we need your help! Just like last year, we’ll be relying on your input to choose the winners of the Readers’ Choice awards, but we’re doing things a bit differently this time around. We’ve identified four awards with lengthy lists of possible initial candidates, so before we get to voting, we’re asking members of our TPG Lounge to help narrow them down....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Update: As of April 2013, Chase Ultimate Rewards has added Virgin Atlantic as a new airline transfer partner.Recently, Flyertalkers have reported having their Ultimate Rewards credit card accounts shut down and their points taken away for transferring points among Ultimate Rewards accounts as well as to frequent flyer accounts not belonging to them or their spouses.This prompted me to look more closely at the Terms and Conditions of the Ultimate Rewards program, and here’s what the T&C specifically related to points transfers say....

The next time you fly Korean Air, you may want to pay extra attention to the safety briefing – especially if you’re a K-Pop fan.Korean Air partnered with hit K-Pop group SuperM, in partnership with SM Entertainment, the largest entertainment company in Korea.An SM Entertainment songwriter created a song called “Let’s Go Everywhere,” which was later turned into a K-pop music video. By integrating safety rules into the music video, the safety video was created....

During the COVID-19 crisis, our team has temporarily ceased taking review trips. However, we have resumed the publication of new, previously unpublished flight, hotel and lounge reviews, from trips taken before the lockdown. To help keep you entertained — and maybe inspire you — we are also republishing a selection of our most popular reviews from 2019 and 2020, including the one below, which was originally published in August 2019. We hope this will help you choose once we’re all ready to start booking trips again....

Sunday night’s Super Blood Wolf Moon was one for the memory books. Although inclement weather plagued many parts of the world, plenty of stargazers still managed to brave the cold conditions to snap and share hundreds of stunning images from where they stood.https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs531XDg-OQ/A number of photographers created composite images compiling a number of photographs within a single frame in order to show the progression of the lunar eclipse.The “super blood wolf moon” phenomenon occurs when the moon is fully eclipsed by the earth while at the closest part of its orbit around our planet....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Breakfast is the most important meal of the day…especially when you’ve got a packed travel schedule of busy days. Often breakfast is the meal travelers skip most at hotels thanks to a lack of options and overpriced menus. However, many hotels and loyalty programs offer their members a variety of perks including free breakfast. Here are some ways you can start your day right at your hotel of choice....

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.Amex recently announced that Virgin America would be joining the Membership Rewards program, but they didn’t release what the transfer ratio would be (most airline partners transfer at 1:1)....

Parts of southern Europe and the Mediterranean were affected by two separate storm systems late last week. The storm systems brought with them heavy rain, strong winds and even a few tornadoes. And one tornado took direct aim at one of the largest airports in Turkey, Antalya Airport (AYT). Multiple videos taken at the airport show the tornado touching down, tracking across the busy airfield. Various sources are reporting that the tornado damaged aircraft, ground equipment and injured 12 passengers waiting to board an aircraft via airstairs....

You may not have heard of Bamboo Airways, but if the Vietnamese airline’s plans come to fruition, you will soon.Bamboo Airways is a newly launched carrier that’s beginning to enter the international market. The airline’s domestic expansion has been impressive, and it plans to use the introduction of the 787 to catapult it through its next growth spurt.The airline has committed to starting long-haul flights, including to destinations in the United States....

TPG Contributor Alex Pasquariello outlines five simple steps you can follow to protect yourself from Zika Virus in tropical destinations — and in your own backyard.Enter the Dog Days of Zika, this summer’s long, hot slog against our old arch nemesis, Aedes Aegypti, once the destroyer of empires, armies and in modern times, a threat to mankind’s finest athletes at the 2016 Summer Games. This is the same sucker, by the way, that spreads yellow fever, dengue and chikungunya — in fact, of all the viruses this particular mosquito transmits in its brief, bloody life, Zika may be the mildest....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Now through February 25, 2015, British Airways is currently offering a promotion where you can earn a 50% bonus when purchasing British Airways Avios, which they are calling their Best Ever Bonus.British Airways is currently offering a 50% bonus on purchased Avios.If you were to purchase the maximum amount of 35,000 Avios, you would receive a 17,500 bonus for a total of 52,500 British Airways Avios for $988, which come out to about 1....