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The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, is finding himself in hot water over a series of charter jet flights he took during the last several months. Now he is willing to pay back the cost of some of the private flights he took, but only for a small fraction of the total cost.According to a Politico investigation, the Secretary has flown on at least 26 private jet flights since May, using aircraft such as Embraer’s ERJ-135LR and Bombadier’s Learjet 60 at a cost of more than $400,000, including over $56,000 in one week alone....

Check out the week in travel contests and sweepstakes for your chance to win trips to China, Saint Lucia or Fiji, a chance to see the 2015 Super Bowl or a foodie getaway to California.Win a trip to Saint Lucia. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock.Win A Trip To Saint Lucia From Yahoo TravelTo celebrate Wellness Month, Yahoo Travel is giving away two trips for two to Saint Lucia. The prize trip includes roundtrip flights for two on JetBlue and accommodation at the The BodyHoliday and Anse Chastanet resorts for six nights in total....

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 ongoing skirmish over Delta’s discount for National Rifle Association members and Georgia lawmakers who want to end its sales tax exemption on jet fuel is over a sale of only 13 tickets.Delta, which decided to end its group ticket discount for NRA members in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, told TPG that during the entirety of the discount program, only 13 tickets were purchased using the discount....

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.In case you missed it, earlier this month, Delta announced it was launching its premium economy product, Premium, beginning in fall 2017. Here we are just a few weeks later, and it looks like the carrier is switching up its original plans a bit by changing the name of the new product from Premium to Premium Select....

In December 2015, AccorHotels announced its plan to acquire Fairmont Hotels & Resorts. Including its Fairmont, Raffles and Swissôtel brands, the FHRI company cost Accor 46.7 million new shares and a cash payment of $840 million. Since the announcement, however, there hadn’t been many updates on the loyalty front. Now, almost two years to the date since the original news, the two have announced that Fairmont President’s Club will be folded into Le Club AccorHotels, effective July 2, 2018....

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.Rental car loyalty programs aren’t known for being the most rewarding in the industry. However, there are some sweet spots if you know where to look. And National Car Rental’s Emerald Club is a great example, since it often offers a very rewarding perk: One Two Free....

There are two types of fliers. Those who love the opportunity to watch bad movies, cry while watching bad movies, drink like they’re 21 again, and approach their strange, isolated time in the sky with a laissez-faire attitude. These are amiable folks, probably relaxed, probably reading a magazine, probably heading to Tulum for summer break.And then there are those people who glue their butts to their aisle seat, fire up their laptops, and type frantically as though they’re paid $100 per word....

My most recent round-the-world trip was one of my longest yet, first bringing me from Newark (EWR) to London (LHR) on Air India, on to Kuala Lumpur (KUL) on Malaysia’s A350 and finally to Sydney (SYD) on an MH A330, where I caught a flight on Singapore’s new A380 to Changi Airport (SIN). From there, I had a couple days to get to Toulouse, France (TLS) for the delivery flight of Qatar Airways’ first A350-1000....

Window or aisle? The question has been a topic of debate for decades. It’s so important that every TPG staffer’s bio indicates what their preferred seating choice is. Would you rather sit by the window and have amazing views of the Earth down below or have the freedom to stretch your legs into the aisle and go to the bathroom whenever you please?Now those who prefer the aisle seat may have another argument against the pr-window crowd....

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how I was so very bummed I missed the chance to get two tickets to the Ryder Cup for just 20,000 total SPG points via a SPG Moments opportunity. While I think that going to the Ryder Cup would actually be a ton of fun, I didn’t want the tickets for myself. I wanted them for my dad who has had attending that golf tournament on his radar for-ev-er....

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.Prince Harry and Meghan Markle did more for Britain than add modern touches to a centuries-old institution: Their royal wedding helped push traffic to Heathrow Airport, giving it its busiest May on record.Heathrow (LHR) announced Monday that 6....

From time to time I mention that my husband has some various elite status levels (mostly hotel) that he gets primarily through work travel. I’m sure you can all put 1 + 1 together to come up with the fact that means he is gone a fair amount from the home for work travel. For the most part, I choose to view the situation in a positive manner and focus on the facts that:A....

Every couple has that one “spot” that holds a special place in the history of their romance. For Austin Mann and Esther Havens, it’s the Starbucks at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS). Yes, the very same coffee kiosk where bleary-eyed travelers down shots of espresso before catching a connecting flight is where the couple first started to fall in love… and where Mann popped the question.Why an airport Starbucks? Both Mann and Havens are lucky enough to make their careers as travel photographers, working largely with nonprofit organizations in developing countries....

Are you a fan of Marriott hotels? Well, make sure that you’re getting points for telling the world about your favorite hotel brand. Marriott Rewards has an ongoing “Reward a Friend” referral program which allows members to earn up to 50,000 points per calendar year for referring new members to stay with Marriott.The only catch is that the referral points are awarded based on the number of stays by those you refer to the program....

Southwest is currently running a one-day sale today for 35% off select flights on May 22nd, May 30-31, June 5-6, July 4-5. The discount is only for Wanna Get Away Fares, which are Southwest’s lowest fares already. Since this is a one-day sale all travel must be booked today 5/15/2012. To get the code automatically applied, search via this link and make the SUMMER12 should be pre-populated in the promo code box....

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.In a rare shopping portal bonus appearance, United is offering MileagePlus shoppers a fantastic 8 miles per dollar on Apple purchases. This increased offer is good for today (Friday, March 10) only. To take advantage, go to the MileagePlus Shopping Apple page, click the Shop now option and make sure to purchase through the window that opens....

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.Last week, American Airlines shared its plans to hire workers to aid the TSA in the screening process at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, and now United Airlines has announced that it too would join the effort to help speed up the security lines at major airports....

At the end of May, a man caused Delta Flight 1156 from Portland (PDX) to Atlanta (ATL) to divert to Tulsa, Oklahoma (TUL) after behaving unruly while in flight. Now, that man has pleaded guilty to a federal assault charge regarding the incident — and it’ll cost him.According to the Associated Press, 29-year-old Bolutife Olorunda of Vancouver, Washington, owes Delta $9,118 for the cost of diverting the flight after pleading guilty to a federal assault charge....

The US National Park Service has announced its fee-free days for visiting National Parks in 2018. The Park Service will allow the public to enter all 417 National Parks for free on four days next year.Entrance fees will be waived on the following days next year:January 15 — Martin Luther King, Jr. DayApril 21 — First Day of National Park WeekSeptember 22 — National Public Lands DayNovember 11 — Veterans DayAlthough only 118 of the parks charge entrance fees, some of them can be a bit pricey....

In 2013, FlixBus launched in Germany and since then, the coach bus company has been disrupting conventional European travel (i.e. trains from European city to European city). Fast forward to today, and Europe’s largest bus network is launching in the United States with the goal of changing long-distance travel.The low-cost alternative to Europe’s train system, which some equate to Megabus in the US, is setting its sights on the West Coast with its introduction in the US....