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Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.The first major winter storm of the year is sweeping across the South and into the Midwest United States, with the Northeast in the cross-hairs for a snowy Thursday and Friday. The storm is named “Avery” by The Weather Channel — but the National Weather Service remains adamant that winter storms not be named. And the storm threatens to hamper travel through the Midwest and Northeast over the next few days....

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.American Airlines is in the midst of revolutionizing its domestic fleet, in good ways and bad. While it has retrofitted more than 600 aircraft with high-speed Wi-Fi, it’s also retrofitting the interiors of some of them with more seats, and less legroom....

American Airlines is stepping up its on-board economy food by partnering with Zoës Kitchen to stock fresh sandwiches, wraps and snacks. The new meals take flight today (Dec. 1, 2018) on domestic flights longer than 1,100 miles — or about three hours.Passengers will have the following options for qualifying morning flights:Breakfast Sandwich: Turkey bacon, egg slices and tomato topped with baby arugula on a waffle brioche bun with Calabrian pepper aioli ($8....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Israel, home to three major world religions, is a destination on many travelers’ bucket lists — and for good reason. The country has lots to offer, from miles of sandy beaches and a nightlife scene in Tel Aviv that rivals New York City’s to countless UNESCO World Heritage sites and some of the best hummus money can buy....

Get ready to embrace your inner child: LEGOLAND New York is slated to open in Goshen, New York in Spring 2020 and its play passes are now on sale.While the park isn’t yet open, what’s cool about buying this pass now is that it also includes an invite to visit LEGOLAND New York resort before it even opens for a preview event. There’s not a firm opening date for the park just yet, but spring 2020 is the target....

Whenever you receive anything from a company during the year that’s worth a total of more than $600, you may receive a 1099-MISC tax form claiming its value as “other income.” This year, several of the major credit card issuers including Amex and Chase are sending these forms to card holders in response to referral bonuses they were granted.This in and of itself is new; these issuers haven’t regularly sent out 1099s for referral bonuses in the past....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.It was not cheap for Chase to acquire all of their shiny new (often Millennial) Sapphire Reserve cardmembers, especially back when they were handing out 100,000 points worth $1,500 in travel booked through Chase to everyone who was approved and hit the spending requirement. I’ve numbers like 5 - 7 years, on average, for the bank to make that acquisition cost back, assuming that folks even keep the card for that long....

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.Today is effectively the final day to apply for 100,000 bonus points on the Chase Sapphire Reserve, since the offer expires tomorrow (Sunday) and you can only do it in a Chase branch to get the 100,000 points....

File this one under better safe than sorry.A concerned citizen called 911 to report a plane crash after passing by Delbert Holsinger’s lifelike wrecked ultralight Halloween display.The witness’ call prompted the fire department and the State Highway Patrol to respond to the front yard wreckage, erected by the 85-year-old at his home in Pickerington, Ohio, for the holiday. The ultralight is strategically placed around a tree with a skeleton and witch hanging out of the cockpit....

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: As the travel industry reopens following COVID-19 shutdowns, TPG suggests that you talk to your doctor, follow health officials’ guidance and research local travel restrictions before booking that next trip. We will be here to help you prepare, whether it is next month or next year....

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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 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....

Delta is phasing in yet another of its highly rated Airbus A350s on a European route through its headquarters in Atlanta. According to Routes Online, Delta will slot in an A350-900XWB on one of its three daily flights between Atlanta (ATL) and Amsterdam (AMS) beginning on Sept. 1, 2019.Since launching its business-class Delta One Suites in November 2017, Delta has been busy adding new Airbus A350 routes featuring what is likely the best business-class cabin on a US airline....

Late spring and summer bring hot weather and with it, thunderstorm season in the US. If you’ve been delayed in your travels in the past month or so, you already know that. With some 40,000 thunderstorms annually around the world, pilots are dodging them daily. Here’s how they assess thunderstorm threats and adjust their flight plans accordingly.Pilots call thunderstorms “CB,” which refers to cumulonimbus clouds.According to the FAA’s weather guide for pilots, a thunderstorm is not an object, but more akin to a process that develops within cumulonimbus clouds....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Last week, British Airways announced a 50% off “sale” on award tickets. However, there were two main caveats - only on British Airways flights and excluding international business and first class. The exclusion of premium cabins killed the deal for me, however there are a lot of people who redeem for coach awards so I thought I’d do some analysis on whether this deal makes sense since British Airways imposes substantial surcharges and fees on award tickets....

Citi is a TPG advertising partnerSome of us laud the bicycle’s dual purpose, as both a transportation and fitness tool. Others don’t. Or they simply don’t want to work up a sweat on the way to the office — and who can blame them for that.Whatever your reason for wanting to cut back on the effort required to ride to work, Citi Bike’s got your back with a new pedal-assist electric bike....

Presumably, Singapore Airlines had been feeling some pressure since United Airlines recently launched its nonstop route between Singapore (SIN) and San Francisco (SFO), as the carrier didn’t yet have a nonstop flight to the US from its namesake country. Now, Singapore Airlines is officially announcing plans to launch nonstop service between SFO and SIN starting October 23, 2016.The new route will be serviced by an Airbus A350-900 aircraft, which has 253 seats in three classes — 42 in business, 24 in premium economy and 187 in economy....

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.It’s the rare occasion any of us will ever be jealous of a bird. About 12 hours into a Singapore Airlines flight SQ322 from Singapore (SIN) to London (LHR), a bird was found perched on a seat in the carrier’s famous business class....

Editor’s note: During the COVID-19 crisis, our team has temporarily ceased taking review trips. However, we are publishing new flight, hotel and lounge reviews, from trips taken before the lockdown. We have also been publishing a selection of our most popular reviews from the past year. We hope this will help you choose once we’re all ready to start booking trips again.Bear in mind that for the foreseeable future, service on board will be greatly reduced to lower the risk of contamination, and that the ground experience — with lounges closed or without food and amenities — will also be very different from what was available before the pandemic....

For at least the second time in a month, United Airlines is accusing its staff of engaging in fraud. This time, the airline says a handful of its FAs are brokering deals to sell the best trips to international destinations to their coworkers, a practice prohibited by United.“Over the past few months, many of you have voiced concerns about illicit trip brokering,” P. Douglas McKeen, the airline’s senior VP of labor relations, wrote in an internal memo sent to all of United’s 26,000 flight attendants and reviewed by TPG....