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Earlier this year American, United and Virgin America engaged in an all out battle for the Dallas and Chicago trans-continental (LA/San Francisco routes), offering lucrative double elite mile bonuses.“While they all expired in September, American just re-instated their promotion for all AAdvantage members living in Illinois or Texas. Details:Your miles will add up quickly with this great promotion! Not only that, but this offer allows you to qualify or re-qualify for AAdvantage Gold®, AAdvantage Platinum® or AAdvantage Executive Platinum® status faster than ever....

Yesterday I was on the verge of hitting 16,000 Twitter followers so I decided to hold another Twitter Giveaway. In order to participate you had to be sure to follow me on Twitter, and then retweet my special 16,000-point giveaway tweet:“About to hit 16k followers, which means a giveaway! Follow and retweet by 11:59pm ET today to enter 16k Amex point giveaway. #tpg16k”I had 970 retweets and was able to reach over 16,460 followers!...

Meteorologists are predicting another nor’easter to hit the mid-Atlantic region Wednesday and Thursday, Accuweather reports.The winter storm is expected to bring snow from New Jersey to Maine, with some parts of New England seeing one to two feet of snow, which means more possible widespread travel disruptions this week. The northern suburbs of Baltimore to the inner cities of Philadelphia, New York City and Boston are all expected to receive significant snow accumulation, Accuweather predicts....

If you’ve been dreaming about visiting the enchanted nation of Wakanda, now is your chance. Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL) is now offering nonstop flights to the Kingdom of Wakanda, the fictional East African nation at the center of Marvel’s Black Panther film.The airport tweeted a photo on Monday of a digitally altered gate screen with a departure flight to the fictional country.Although the ATL flight isn’t really going to Wakanda, Black Panther fans were still excited about the airport’s homage to film....

A British Airways flight from London Heathrow (LHR) to Calgary (YYC) was forced to make an emergency landing in a small town in Nunavut in the far north of Canada,on Wednesday night, after fumes began to fill the cockpit.The pilots at the helm of flight BA103 had to deploy their oxygen masks after a reported “electrical burning” smell emanated from the flight deck, according to Airlive. The flight declared an emergency and diverted to nearby Iqaluit Airport (YFB), where the pilots of the Boeing 787-9 executed a safe emergency landing just before 7:00pm local time....

US Airways just loaded some competitive roundtrip business class fares to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:$2,005 total roundtrip from JFK (via Charlotte) = 10,471 base miles, plus class of service bonus depending on where you bank your miles$2,005 total roundtrip from Miami (via Charlotte) = 10,688 base miles, plus class of service bonus depending on where you bank your miles$2,191 total roundtrip from LAX (via Charlotte) = 13,638 base miles, plus class of service bonus depending on where you bank your milesThese book into A class for the domestic legs and Z class for the international portion....

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.A China Eastern Airlines flight attendant may have been fired by the carrier after her boyfriend proposed to her – on the job.On May 19, the unnamed flight attendant was working on Flight MU2329 from Xian (XIY) to Yinchuan (INC) when her boyfriend of four years got down on one knee in the aisle, about a half-hour after takeoff....

Ever struggled to find a power plug in an airport? Or how about struggling to find that outlet under an economy seat? Perhaps one of your travel pet peeves is finding a convenient power outlet in a hotel room?There’s a new technology that’s hoping to solve these pain points. I found out about IDEAL Industries’ “PowerPuck” this week at the IATA World Passenger Symposium, and I personally can’t wait to see this put into practice across the travel world....

Machu Picchu may be one of Peru’s most incredible destinations, but you should definitely plan some time to explore the Sacred Valley while you’re in the neighborhood. This area —which includes the Andean mountains and the valley surrounding the Urubamba River — once formed the epicenter of the Inca Empire. From harrowing mountain peaks and rural villages to roaming llamas and alpacas, here’s everything you need to know about visiting Peru’s legendary Sacred Valley....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here – Premier Rewards Gold Card from American ExpressAs I reported last week, I recently flew to Madrid to surprise a friend for her 30th birthday and got the chance to check out Iberia’s new business class aboard the A330. The way I got to fly business class was that I had purchased a roundtrip ticket earlier this summer on American Airlines’ website that included my Air Berlin business class flight from Berlin to New York JFK in August, and booked the return on Iberia from New York JFK to Madrid, all for the relatively decent price of $2,476....

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.My husband and I are very close to heading off for London and Dublin for a little while (a few days in each city), and would love any recommendations of “can’t miss” things to do, see, eat, etc....

We are just weeks away from the busy holiday travel season when tons of families will hit the skies…yes, I said just weeks away. Crazy. Many of those families that will be lining up at the airport are ones who don’t travel that frequently, so it can be an extra anxiety ridden and stressful experience for anyone that either isn’t prepared or simply doesn’t know what to expect. This is totally understandable as there are so many nuances for everything from getting through security, to the boarding process, and more....

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.With this year’s nightmarish stories of doctors getting dragged off oversold planes and unaccompanied minors being left at the gate, it wouldn’t be crazy to assume that airline bumping is on the rise. But according to the Department of Transportation, that presumption is wrong....

Everybody knows at least one person who’s terrible at taking a break from work. According to Project: Time Off, an organization that tracks the work vs. vacation habits of Americans, employees across the country left 662 million unused vacation days on the table in 2016. That’s a whole lot of sightseeing hours — 5,296,000,000 to be exact, if we’re being kind and estimating an eight-hour workday.As a reminder to those perpetual office-dwellers that there is life outside of work, JetBlue has come up with a line of “office souvenirs” it hopes will poke fun at the problem and inspire those people to turn PDFs into PTO....

Most hotel loyalty programs adjust the points price (aka category or tier) of some individual properties at least once per year. In many cases the number of points per night charged is at least loosely tied to the average rate that property draws, so when hotel upgrades are made or demand for the hotel increases or decreases or for several other reasons, that hotel may become one that needs to move up or down in points price as rates fluctuate accordingly....

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 when you thought this strange, strange world we live in couldn’t get any weirder, orange snow is covering mountains and regions of Eastern Europe, including Russia, Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine. See for yourself: A post shared by Cultura Colectiva Noticias (@culturacolectivanoticias) on Mar 27, 2018 at 8:22am PDT...

The guest list for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding just opened up to the public…sort of.The royal duo announced today that 2,640 members of the general public would be invited inside the grounds at Windsor Castle to see them and their famous guests arrive and depart the May 19 ceremony.According to the statement from Kensington Palace, the royal couple wants their “wedding day to be shaped so as to allow members of the public to feel part of the celebrations, too....

Update 10/13/16: Southwest announced that it will begin its Fort Lauderdale (FLL) to Varadero (VRA) service on November 13, 2016, as well as its FLL and Tampa (TPA) service to Havana (HAV) on December 12, 2016. Now through November 20, 2016, the carrier is offering a promotional starting prices of $59 one-way on nonstop flights to and from Cuba for travel between November 13, 2016 and April 24, 2017 — including all inaugural flights....

Possibly the most American of holidays, Thanksgiving has also become a huge export. Wherever in the world you are this November 23, you’re likely to find a hotel where Norman Rockwell–like tableaus of turkey and trimmings take over dining tables. Others spice up traditional Thanksgiving offerings with local twists. Here are some of our top picks for a home-away-from-home holiday:Courtesy Cliveden HotelCliveden House, Berkshire, UKThanksgiving at Downtown Abbey might have looked like the five-course feast (about $76 per person) at this stately Italianate pile in the British countryside, now a Relais & Chateaux property set on 376 acres of protected parkland....

If you have any Hilton stays coming up - especially 2-night weekend stays, you should know about the following three promotions:1) As I wrote about earlier, you can earn 1,000 bonus points per night and 5,000 per weekend stay until March 31, 2012.2) You can get another 1,000 points if you book your 2012 weekend stay through this link by January 31, 2012 (note: this is a pre-loaded rate, so make sure you aren’t paying extra for the points)....