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A new email phishing scam is reportedly making its way around frequent flyers’ inboxes.This time, hackers are posing as Delta Air Lines in an attempt to steal your information. And, as René’s Points reports, the scam looks pretty legit.The email is said to have the subject line “Your Delta SkyMiles Account will be closed,” and it asks the receiver to follow a link to “update your Delta SkyMiles account information.” The scammers are hoping you will click their bad link and provide them with some of your personal data....

Business class fares to Europe tend to run anywhere from $3,000-$6,000 depending on the season and destination. But per this FlyerTalk thread, some intrepid travelers have uncovered fares as low as $1,100 roundtrip on Star Alliance airlines throughout the next year.Fly United BusinessFirst from Europe for just $1,100 roundtrip!There are two catches, though. The first is that the fares are only being generated for trips originating in Europe. The second is that the only origin/destination where this seems to work is Copenhagen....

Family travel can create lasting shared memories and provide the platform not only for fun, but for bonds to grow even stronger, but I warn against confusing the term ‘family trip’ with ‘vacation’. Very often after a family trip you may feel like you actually really need a vacation as sleeping in and sitting back by the pool with a mai tai in hand may not happen when you are traveling with little kids....

Advertisements for hotel chains — and more specifically, loyalty programs — are nothing new. For Hilton in particular, the focus on advertising has been on its properties and offerings. However, Hilton’s now going the route of celebrity spokesperson in order to get its message to the consumer.In Hilton’s latest “Expect Better” campaign, the company is turning to Anna Kendrick to get its point across. “Using humor, consumer insights, and the multi-generational appeal of celebrity Anna Kendrick, Hilton will debut a new campaign tomorrow aimed at directly addressing the frustrations consumers face when booking their hotel stay,” Hilton said in a press release....

JetBlue just brought back the coveted All You Can Jet pass for a few lucky New Yorkers: three buskers who are going from the street to the sky.The pass is part of a promotion to raise awareness for VH1 Save the Music. JetBlue has been a partner for 10 years, raising more than $200,000 to help the foundation keep music education in public schools.Back in the day, JetBlue offered the month-long All You Can Jet pass to everyone, letting customers travel anywhere the airline flew for one flat fee (plus taxes)....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.With the exception of adding new premium economy awards to its charts, the American Airlines AAdvantage mileage program has only made relatively minor changes recently. This means that there are many ways to maximize your award tickets in the program, but to do so, you must know the ins and outs of what is (and isn’t) allowed when you go to redeem your miles....

It seems like half the year is already gone, and even with a lot of bucket-list travel under my belt so far - like my first trip to Australia and a remote island paradise in Brazil, as well a return to my beloved Dublin - I’m finding myself feeling antsy for adventure. Before I blink and the summer’s here, I want to lend you a little inspiration for your own vacation time, and remind myself of what’s special about my top choices for travel adventures in 2014....

As anyone who’s searched for AAdvantage award availability anytime recently knows, American Airlines isn’t known for being generous with award availability at the lowest “MileSAAver” levels. However, one concession that the airline has made for those stuck booking the more expensive AAnytime awards is free extra legroom “Main Cabin Extra” or preferred seating.But this week, through a simple website change, this perk ended for AAnytime award tickets booked on or after August 30th....

There a lot of reasons to like Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport. Yes, it’s one of the largest and busiest airports in Europe and the home base of SkyTeam partner KLM, but it’s much more than that. Schiphol is an AvGeek paradise. Not only does the place swarm with interesting airlines and aircraft — where else are you going to see an Airbus 340 flown by Surinam Airways, not to mention all those increasingly rare 747s in KLM’s beautiful blue colors?...

A few weeks ago we shared a poll with readers asking if they plan to keep or cancel their Uber accounts given the onslaught of negative news about the company in recent months.More than 1,600 of you voted. The results of that reader poll are in, and it seems like most TPG readers are continuing to use Uber regardless of bad press about the company’s questionable practices.As you’ll remember from a post that appeared on TPG last month, Uber has gone through some tough times at the corporate level since the beginning of the year....

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.Here’s your chance to ring in 2018 twice in one night — all courtesy of a private jet. Charter company PrivateFly is offering the chance to book a one-way flight from Sydney (SYD) to Honolulu (HNL) on board a Gulfstream G650ER long range private jet....

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.The nightmare envisioned in Samuel L. Jackson’s 2006 film, “Snakes on a Plane” has become a reality. On Sunday, passengers aboard Aeromexico’s Flight 231 from Torreon to Mexico City were disturbed by a slithery creature.University professor Indalecio Medina captured the video of the five-foot-long viper that dangled above passengers heads and said he captured the snake with a blanket, according to The Express....

If you have status with another airline, Southwest is no longer making a secret of the fact that it wants you to test out its A-List status and see how you like it.On Friday, Southwest detailed its status match challenge on its website for the first time, allowing flyers with status on another airline to register and try out its A-List status. The airline’s status match program isn’t new, but it previously wasn’t advertised — you had to call and find an agent who was familiar with the rules and knew how to enroll you in it....

TPG reader Moira writes:“I’m recently into points and took your advice and picked a goal to work towards. I am trying to go to the 2012 Olympics in London. My question is: What are your thoughts on using your points for high travel events (ie. World Cup, Olympics, Super Bowl etc)? I watched your clip yesterday about getting last minute award travel because airlines will open up unused seats for award booking as the date approaches....

“It’s not getting from A to B," American novelist David Balducci once said. “It’s not the beginning or the destination that counts. It’s the ride in between… This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It’s a living, breathing something – you just have to want to learn its rhythm.“Traveling across Europe is a coming-of-age fantasy for people across the globe – and the Interrail is the ticket to why so many European youth get to take such a trip....

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.Keeping your credit card information secure is a hot topic, especially during the busy holiday travel season. As travelers take to the roads to get to their destinations, credit card skimmers are increasingly becoming a problem, frequently encountered at gas station pumps....

Imagine you’ve booked a trip to Tokyo, planned out everything you wanted to see and do and the places you wanted to eat, only to find out your culinary wishes can’t come true because you don’t have one thing: a reservation.That’s where Tableall comes in. Japan is home to some of the world’s most exclusive — and notoriously difficult to book — restaurants, like Tempura Motoyoshi, Karyu, Higuchi and Sushi Arai, among others....

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.Uber seems to be rolling out new products all the time — whether that’s yachts for Art Basel, service between California and Mexico, on-demand helicopters or UberBoat in Istanbul. But now the ridesharing service is taking its modes of transportation to the next level with driverless cars....

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.While we’re a little misty-eyed from the winding down of this year’s summer seasonal routes, United’s giving us reason to smile as we look forward to summer 2019. FlightGlobal reports that the carrier will utilize Boeing 787 aircraft on “six international Atlantic routes” from its hub in Newark, beginning March 31, 2019....

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 weekend, “Saturday Night Live” took full advantage of its host Tom Hanks to hilariously spoof “Sully.” In the skit, Sully, played by Tom Hanks, once again takes to the skies but isn’t happy with being demoted from captain to first officer....