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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.I usually ignore the Delta “sale” emails because they never really have anything interesting. However, this week I got the Valentine’s Day Flight Sale promotion, which surprisingly includes award flights. There are 11 city pairs that have 20,000 mile roundtrip awards (down from 25)....

“Reader Questions” are answered three days a week — Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays — by TPG Senior Writer Julian Mark Kheel.We have an excellent question today from TPG reader Bradley, who sent us a Facebook message asking…[pullquote source=“TPG Reader Bradley”]Does Canada qualify as an international itinerary for Oneworld Sapphire or Emerald lounge access?[/pullquote]Having elite status on one of the Big 3 legacy airlines means you also have additional status with that airline’s associated alliance — Oneworld, Star Alliance or SkyTeam....

On March 17, eight-week-old puppy Ren and his litter mate set out on an adventure and ended up a nightmare. The puppies’ breeder put them on a Delta flight from Virginia, which was supposed to stop over in Minneapolis (MSP) before landing in Boise (BOI) that evening.Instead, Ren’s new dad, Josh Schlaich, received a cryptic phone call Saturday evening from a “no-caller-ID” number, from someone claiming to be a Delta employee....

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.Yup, you read that right.On August 3, 2016, an Emirates Boeing 777 burst into flames as it was making its final approach into Dubai International Airport (DXB). Even though the investigation into the exact cause of the crash landing hasn’t yet been completed, the carrier was able to verify that all 282 passengers and 18 crew members on board had survived....

If you’re flying out of or through Taipei’s Taiwan Taoyuan Airport (TPE), swing by the EVA Air lounge to check out the extra-special attendant on site: a robot named Pepper. Here’s his intro video from last month:While this video shows him pulling a rolling suitcase, Pepper isn’t quite ready to help out around the quite hectic TPE check-in desks. Instead, it’s been assigned to the check-in desk between EVA Air’s Infinity lounge and Star lounge in TPE’s Terminal 2....

In a strange turn of events, the US government is now trying to convince airlines to ban passengers from checking large personal electronic devices in their luggage. The Federal Aviation Administration said that it’s urging airlines to ban the checking of large electronics due to the risk of them catching fire.This move from the FAA is ironic because the US government imposed its infamous electronics ban on on flights from select airports earlier this year, meaning passengers flying from select airports in the Middle East and Africa could not carry their large electronic devices on the plane....

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.FlyNYON, the helicopter company involved in last month’s deadly Manhattan East River crash, resumed operations on Sunday. Included in its product offering were doors-off flights, the same kind of flight that killed five people in a tragic March crash....

TPG reader Michael has a ton of points and would like to sell them:“I have over a million points (a mixture of United miles, American miles, Ultimate Rewards, Membership Rewards, British Airways Avios, Southwest points, StarPoints, US Airways miles, ANA and Delta SkyMiles). How can I sell the points without violating airlines’ user agreements? If I can sell them, how much can I get? How does the IRS look at the sale of points?...

Today, I want to share a story from TPG reader Heidi, who got stuck with an extra stop on her flight after misunderstanding the cancellation policy. Here’s what she had to say:I was recently planning a last-minute trip to Asia, and spent a few days watching airfare as I figured out my plans. During that time, the $620 non-stop SFO-PEK United flight I had my eye on shot up to $800, so feeling a bit panicked I booked a flight on Hainan Airlines with a connection in LAS for $470....

Time to grow out a bowl cut, don a puffy vest and defrost all your Eggos: Stranger Things is coming back, and, thanks to Lyft, you can experience a journey to the Upside Down without getting turned into a Barb-like extra-dimensional mucous cocoon.Continuing its tradition of theme weekends, the ride-share service is introducing two-day-only Stranger Things rides in Philadelphia and Los Angeles that will feature scary lighting and sound effects, seats controlled “telekinetically” by a malevolent entity, and a driver who vomits out slugs....

When Kristina Roth isn’t busy catching flights, she somehow manages to head up an all-female island.That’s right, an island for women only.Roth is the founder of SuperShe Island, a health-focused luxury destination off of Finland that’s exclusive to women. The 7.8-acre island is part of a wider business founded by Roth that includes a lifestyle blog and networking group. The former New Yorker purchased the private island in the Baltic after leaving her job as the CEO of a consultancy business in 2016....

My kids fly a lot, but meet the toddler who really flies a lot. In fact, he flies so much that American Airlines recently threw a celebration for him to celebrate his 100th flight at just 21 months old. Twenty-one month old Oliver isn’t trying to set kid flight records, but instead, he is just tagging along with his mom who has a job that requires a bunch of travel. He was born via in-vitro without a legal father, so going along for the ride with his mom (and sometimes a nanny), simply made the most sense for them to maximize family time together....

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.Just wanted to say Merry Christmas to all. For those who celebrate, I hope “Santa” brought you everything you wanted. I haven’t opened most presents yet, but I’ve already received an HD Flip camera, so expect lots of new rich video content in the new 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.I recently got interviewed by the New York Times and they just put the interview on their In Transit Blog. I also believe it’ll be in the print version of this Sunday’s Travel Section. I’ve been reading the NY Times Travel Section for years, so it’s really humbling to see my advice featured....

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.Today on its blog, the TSA released stats for the full year of 2016, including how many people were screened, how many bags were screened, the number of firearms discovered and more. All in all, 2016 was a very busy year for travel — the TSA screened more than 738 million passengers in total, which is about 43 million more passengers than in 2015....

Registration is now open for the 2013 Chicago Seminars in good old Elk Grove, Illinois, right outside Chicago.This year, the event will take place Friday-Sunday, October 11-13, again at the Holiday Inn Elk Grove Village near O’Hare. You can register here for $85 for the weekend, which includes the cost of attending, but not your accommodations or dinner.Rooms at the hotel will be available to book at a special rate in the coming weeks—there will be threads on FlyerTalk and MilePoint when they become available....

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 Saudi Arabian airline Flynas will begin hiring Saudi women to serve as co-pilots on its planes, it said in a statement.CEO Bandar Almohanna said that the new policy, possibly the first among commercial airlines in the strictly religious country, will let Saudi women do their part to help improve the Saudi economy, Bloomberg reported Tuesday....

The race to cover the world map is competitive among cell-phone carriers, and T-Mobile is pushing to be more travel-friendly for frequent globetrotters.T-Mobile announced that it is expanding its international coverage to 70 additional countries beginning July 22. Plus, the carrier is introducing a new flat-rate “daily data pass” option – and the price is reasonable in comparison to other carriers’ international plans.Through T-Mobile ONE, customers can get unlimited 2G data and texting in international countries at no extra cost through the Simple Global plan....

For this week’s Thursday Giveaway, we’re offering another social-media giveaway blitz on both Instagram and Twitter. The prize: two round-trip tickets in business class on Air Serbia’s new nonstop route between New York (JFK) and Belgrade (BEG).Air Serbia’s business-class cabin has 18 lie-flat seats.Air Serbia is a partner of Etihad and will begin its nonstop route between the US and Serbia with 5x weekly service starting today, June 23. In celebration of the new route, Air Serbia is giving one TPG reader two round-trip tickets in business class on a Jet Airways Airbus A330-200 for the 4,497-mile flight (coincidentally, Air Serbia used to be known as Jat Airways)....

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.Using your hard-earned points or miles for free flights (especially in premium classes) is a great way to make the most of your redemptions. However, occasionally an airline coding mistake could make this proposition even more lucrative, resulting in an award flight actually earning you miles....