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To celebrate Rocketmiles’ new partnership with Alaska Airlines, Mileage Plan members who are first-time Rocketmiles users will receive 3,000 bonus miles upon their first Rocketmiles hotel booking, in addition to the usual earnings of 1,000 to 5,000 miles for each hotel night booked through Rocketmiles.Rocketmiles is a hotel search engine and booking app that works with premium hotel and resort partners around the globe to offer customers who book rooms the perk of earning bonus miles with Aeroplan, Air France/KLM, American Airlines, Delta, Etihad, Frontier, Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue, Qatar, Southwest, Turkish Airlines, United, US Airways, Virgin America - and now Alaska Airlines, as well....

The Museum of Ice Cream (aka every Instagrammer’s dream) is slated to open a fourth location in Miami this December — right in time for Art Basel. The pop-up “museum” has made its way to major cities around the country after a very well-received opening in New York City in 2016. Its mission, according to MOIC, is to “design environments that bring people together and provoke imagination.“The museum acts as a selfie-haven, complete with millennial-pink walls, ice cream sandwich swings, a sprinkle pool and dangling ice cream cone lights — just to name a few of the selfie-friendly features....

Update 3: All tickets for UA flight 747 have sold out. Congrats to anyone who was able to book!Update 2: It looks like the first-class cabin has completely sold out, leaving economy plus or economy as your only options on this flight. As of 3:45pm ET, this is what availability looks like in the main cabin:Update 1: United flight 747 from SFO - HNL is now bookable, and seats are going fast....

Update 4/25/17 12:05pm: A TSA spokesman said there are “no imminent” plans to add any other nations to the electronics ban, according to Bloomberg. The spokesman added that the agency is continuously assessing security directives based on intelligence, but as of this update, there are no changes coming in the immediate future.When the electronics ban was first announced, people traveling from the listed 10 airports in eight countries in the Middle East and Africa have had to come up with alternatives for using their large electronics on flights to the US....

Virgin America announced a partnership today with Joie de Vivre hotels, a unique California boutique hotel chain. The promotion, spelled out here, allows Virgin Elevate members to double dip when staying at Joie de Vivre hotels for the rest of this year- meaning you can earn both Elevate and “Joy of Life” club points.As far as Virgin’s hotel partnerships, I’d say this one is more generous than Hilton (which gives 1 Elevate point per $2 spent) and less generous than Morgans Hotel Group which gives a standard 1,000 Elevate points per stay (unless your hotel stays are routinely over $1,000/ stay- then the Joie de Vivre partnership would be your best bet)....

Airlines will try just about anything to engage with customers on social media. In fact, Facebook or Twitter can sometimes even be the quickest and easiest way to communicate with airlines’ customer service teams.The latest example? This poetic Facebook exchange with Norwegian Air.A passenger named Gus was dissatisfied with his flying experience, so he vented his frustrations in couplets on the carrier’s Facebook page:Not to be upstaged, Norwegian’s customer service team responded in verse, too:Further down in the thread, the Norwegian team asks Gus to message them privately with his booking information, leaving us all on a cliffhanger as to how this poetic exchange ends....

Our “Your Layover Guide” series features airports and destinations around the world where you’re likely to be stuck between flights, offering tips on navigating and spending time in the airport, as well as some things to do if you find yourself with time to explore the nearby city. Today, TPG Contributor (and Philly native) Adam Erace guides us through Philadelphia International Airport.Like the city itself, Philly International (PHL) is one of the biggest, busiest airports in the country, but compared to, say, O’Hare or JFK, it maintains a cozy, manageable feel....

2018 marks New Orleans’ Tricentennial — 300 years since Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville sailed 100 miles up the Mississippi River and founded the city of La Nouvelle-Orléans. In celebration, the city is hosting cultural events all year long, events that capture the melting pot that makes up the city’s cultural makeup. New Orleans has been preparing for its 300th anniversary with massive projects like a brand-new airport terminal, the announcement of a Four Seasons Hotel, expanding the streetcar line and many other city-wide projects....

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: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available – United MileagePlus Explorer CardThe Dreamliner is one of the comfiest ways to get from A to B. It’s always a bonus when a carrier announces that it will begin flying a Dreamliner on a route that isn’t typically serviced by a 787....

There’s an airplane painted like a salmon, carrying 10,000 pounds of salmon, landing from the home of salmon. It’s just another Friday at the Seattle airport — actually, it’s Friday, May 18, when the airline brought in from Alaska the first run of Copper River Salmon. It’s a yearly ritual for aviation geeks in the area, and for seafood lovers.On Friday, Alaska Air Cargo delivered 32,000 pounds of Wild Copper River salmon to Seattle in the first shipment of the season, using several flights....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here: The Business Gold Rewards Card from American Express OPEN, Premier Rewards Gold Card from American ExpressOffer expired on September 12, 2012:Amex periodically runs 75,000 “one day only” offers for the Business Gold Rewards card and today, September 12, 2012 looks like one of them!Limited-Time Offer: Get 75,000 bonus points when you spend $10,000 in your first 4 months of Card membership....

An airport employee fatally stabbed a coworker at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) on Thursday morning.The Philadelphia Police Department says the incident occurred in the airport’s Terminal E.“Preliminary reports are stating that there was a stabbing at Gate E6 in the secure area between two employees,” Philadelphia Police told TPG. “One victim was transported to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and pronounced dead. One male is in police custody. No passengers were involved....

Each Saturday, we round up news stories that you might have missed from the week before, plus a few new stories. If you’re an avid TPG reader, you’ll want to skip ahead to the new stuff. Here’s the top miles, points and travel news you might have missed on TPG this week.5 Summer Reads for Aviation EnthusiastsIf you’re a passionate AvGeek, you might want to pick up these books.Baggage Handler at Honolulu Airport Shamed for Tossing BagsTwitter reacted to the handler carelessly tossing bags down a metal chute....

A friend emailed me today “Does this seem sort of silly to you?I went online to change seats on my Continental flight EWR-SEA next week- look at the options and the prices!”. To which I replied “Snag the cheap upgrade- now!".Back on topic, it doesn’t take an economics genius to realize that it doesn’t make much sense to price first class lower than an exit-row coach seat. Or does it? I guess on one hand, dangling cheap first class upgrades is a surefire way to start building loyalty with non-status customers who are used to receiving no special perks....

Boeing took a big concrete step toward the launch of its new middle market (NMA) 797 aircraft on Wednesday.The plane builder will finish accepting proposals from manufacturers for engine designs for the new double-aisle aircraft by the end of day. CFM International, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls Royce are all reportedly bidding to ink the deal. Boeing has asked the engine manufacturers to submit designs that burn 25% less fuel per pound of thrust than the older turbine engines on its 757 aircraft, The Air Current reports....

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.Gordon Ramsay, the celebrity chef best known for hurling expletives at reality show contestants, is looking to further make his mark in the United States. Ramsey, who is originally from Scotland, has entranced audiences with his over-the-top personality and explosive temper — as seen on Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen — for over a dozen seasons....

Not even gold status will get you upgraded with Delta. After a stunning gold-medal win for the US men’s curling team, Delta missed the easy opportunity for a PR win. Instead, the airline denied the curling team an upgrade on their trip home from Pyeongchang.Team USA’s win in curling — the first for an American team in the sport — left the men riding high, with gold medals draped around their necks....

Amtrak train No. 501 was going nearly three times its speed limit when it derailed off a bridge onto traffic on a busy interstate Monday morning, killing at least three and injuring over 100, officials said.“Preliminary indications are that the train was traveling 80 miles per hour in a 30-mile-per-hour track,” National Transportation Safety Board member Bella Dinh-Zarr said late Monday night.The train was on its inaugural journey on a new route for the Cascades Seattle-to-Portland route when it jumped the rails and fell onto Interstate 5 around 7:45am PT....

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.If you have a surplus of TrueBlue points and you’d like them to go to good use, consider donating them to charity. JetBlue for Good, the airline’s platform for social and corporate responsibility, will match your donation (up to 1 million points)....

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.To celebrate the new Haneda routes (DTW/LAX), Delta is offering triple flown miles for BusinessElite and double flown miles for coach. And unlike past promos where only expensive coach fares qualified- any published coach fare is eligible; including L, U, T....