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This summer we welcomed four fantastic interns in our New York office. They’ve had a chance to learn and write about the travel industry in New York and far beyond — one very lucky intern even got to spend a week on the road on TPG’s dime. This fall, we’d like to offer similar opportunities to a new group of interns. We guarantee it’ll be an adventure!If you’re a college student (currently a sophomore, junior, senior or graduate student) who attends school in the greater New York City area and meets the requirements below, please email a resume and brief introduction, along with the internship you’re applying for, to internships@thepointsguy....

There are some fun travel contests and sweepstakes going on around the web this week. Here are TPG’s top picks to win great travel prizes!Win a luxury getaway for two.Win A Luxury Vacation For Two: American Airlines is sponsoring a contest where you could win a luxury getaway for two people, including two First Class tickets (in the form of AA or US Airways miles), a seven-night stay at any hotel within the Hilton Portfolio, and a Hasselblad Stellar camera to explore the continent of your choice....

Some of my favorite awards have been the ones I booked for other people, like taking my mom to Easter Island a few years ago, or treating my dad to a VIP experience at a Knicks game with Starpoints last year. Today, TPG Senior Points & Miles Correspondent Jason Steele shares his own experiences of booking award travel for others, and explains how you can do the same.My family and I have plenty of points and miles in our accounts, but we don’t always have time to travel far or often enough to make good use of them....

Uber announced this week that it would be investing in bicycle and scooter sharing company, Lime. Lime stated it raised $335 million in a recent fundraising round with Uber “making a sizable investment.“Ride-hailing giant Uber now plans on making Lime scooters available to rent through its mobile app.In April, Uber acquired bike-sharing company JUMP Bikes — integrating the electric bikes into the app with plans to expand the bike-sharing options to other cities....

During my recent vacation to Greece with friends, we hired a great driver in Athens named Makis Dedes (email: limogr@otrenet.gr), and booked an amazing tour of the Acropolis from a guide named Laura (of Yasoo Greece). I learned so much from Laura – not only about the history of Greece, but also about the best way to visit this world-class site, and I thought I’d pass along a few tips if you’re headed to Athens for some sightseeing....

Alaska Airlines is tightening its policy for passengers traveling with emotional support and psychiatric service animals.The carrier announced on Thursday that it’s getting set to implement the new policy for new reservations beginning next month. For tickets purchased after May 1, 2018, passengers traveling with emotional support or psychiatric service animals must provide animal health and behavioral documents, as well as a signed document from a medical doctor or mental health professional....

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.Earn 2,500 for coach and 5,000 for Envoy bookings on the US Airways’ new Charlotte to Dublin route. This isn’t a really amazing promo, but I figured I’d mention it, especially since I was in Dublin in December for my year-end mileage run and had a blast....

Gilbert Gottfried is as uncompromising as a packer as he is as a comic. The actor/voiceover artist/stand-up comedian, who has appeared in “Problem Child” and “Beverly Hills Cop 2," dispenses some packing advice you might want to ignore. Here, the former voice of Aflac opens up about his best trip ever, packing as much as possible and how he’s been treated by the TSA.What’s the best trip you’ve ever taken?Years ago, the MGM Grand had an airline and if you were on a television show, they flew you out and it was amazing....

When Wyndham Rewards switched from a traditional tiered award chart over to a flat 15,000 point per night redemption program earlier this month there was much confusion over how this applied to their all-inclusive properties. Wyndham has six all-inclusive properties under the Viva Wyndham Resort collection and they were pricing online at the 15,000 point level on dates that had availability - even for a family of two adults and two children!...

Check out the week in travel contests and sweepstakes for your chance to win Hawaiian Airlines miles, a $5,000 Visa gift card towards your next vacation, and trips to Puerto Vallarta, Disney Resorts, New York, London, Paris or Rome.Win 140,000 Hawaiian Air Miles From Hawaiian AirlinesYou could win 140,000 Hawaiian Air miles. Shutterstock.Win Hawaiian Air Miles and take your dream trip to Hawaii just by taking a short quiz about what you would do on a vacation in Hawaii....

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.Yesterday I wrote about $349 fares to London from JFK and I would have expected they’d be gone by now, but they aren’t. In fact, I just priced out a JFK-LHR (through Amsterdam on the way there and nonstop on the way home) from April 1-3 and it came out $10 cheaper for a grand total of $339....

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.Don’t yet have a Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer account? Now’s a great time to sign up. For a limited-time, Singapore is offering new KrisFlyer members 500 free miles when you join.To get your 500 free miles, go to the Join KrisFlyer page and enter your personal information....

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 11/18/16: Unfortunately, this promo is no longer available if you haven’t yet signed up.Budweiser continues its “Give a Damn. Don’t Drive Drunk.” campaign in partnership with Lyft, offering $10 off your next ride this Friday (November 18) or Saturday (November 19) night in order to discourage drunk driving....

“Reader Questions” are answered twice a week by TPG Associate Editor Brendan Dorsey.Points are a currency. They hold monetary value and can be redeemed for goods and services that you can also pay for in cash. So what happens when you owe someone points? TPG reader Dick wonders how he can “pay” someone back in points…[pullquote source=“TPG Reader Dick”]I owe someone 24,000 SPG points. They want me to pay them back in Hilton points, I cannot find any reasonable conversion chart....

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.Thanks to a new partnership between Panasonic and Flight Level Media (FLM), you’ll soon be able to send updates to your loved ones from the air via a Facebook Message-like app free of charge.While it’s technically not like the typical Facebook experience, the new in-flight posting app will allow passengers to post an unlimited number of free messages — including airspeed, altitude and other data specific to your flight in real-time — from 30,000 feet....

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.Between April 1 and June 30, Priority Club is rewarding their members with up to 15,000 points. To put this in perspective, a free night at a top tier hotel is 40,000 points, so this promotion is a nice little bump, but nothing to get wildly excited about....

Last week, TPG Special Contributor Eric Rosen got to try out Singapore Airlines’ new premium economy on a flight from Singapore to Hong Kong — here’s his review of the experience.Singapore’s new premium economy debuted in August.Earlier this spring, Singapore Airlines made news when it announced it would finally be adding a premium economy class to its long-haul fleet. Though Singapore is widely acknowledged to be among the top (if not the top) airlines flying these days, thanks to nicely outfitted cabins and stellar service, it’s been dragging its feet over adding premium economy, which many of its competitors already offer....

Here’s a recap of the interesting points and miles news from the week.Turkish Air Miles&Smiles has two great offers in February.Turkish Airlines Miles & Smiles Offers 50% Bonus Miles and 25% Off Awards: The Turkish Airlines Miles & Smiles Program has two offers for flights taken in February 2014. You can earn 50% bonus on award miles on select domestic and international flights, and Turkish Airlines also has select destinations discounted to 25% off when purchased with miles....

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.Surprise: Americans are historically bad at taking time off — and a recent survey indicates that summer 2017 will be no better.According to Generali Global Assistance’s annual “summer holiday plans” survey, the average American vacation length will be about 1....

This week, TPG Editor-in-Chief Zach Honig is exploring the Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX) in Hamburg, Germany, where he had a chance to check out a mock-up of Airbus’ Airspace cabin on the brand new A330neo.Airbus has been working on its next-generation A330neo for quite some time now, with the program first announced at the Farnborough Air Show in 2014. Like with the latest A320, neo stands for New Engine Option, and the A330neo represents a huge step up in fuel efficiency, with a reported 14% improvement in fuel burn per seat....