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Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here – British Airways Visa Signature CardBritish Airways announced that the first route to be serviced by its new A380 aircraft will be Los Angeles (LAX) - London Heathrow (LHR) beginning October 15, 2013. The second destination, Hong Kong, will be added on November 15, 2013. British Airways will be the first UK-based airline (not there are that many) to fly the A380....

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 want to go to London from now until April 12, check out Delta.com. They have all-in total roundtrip fares from $349 from NYC (April 1-3 for example, thanks to TPG reader Adam)) or $530 from Los Angeles....

Today is the day we’ve all been waiting for: American Express Small Business Saturday. I’ve written about it a couple times, will keep this short- basically register every single one of your Amex cards- including additional cardholders on your Amex issued cards (Bluebird, Corporate, prepaid and gift cards are ineligible, unfortunately) here and then spend $25 at a small business that accepts Amex and you’ll automatically get a statement credit of up to $25....

Day 1 of Hilton’s Free Night Twitter Scavenger Hunt seemed like a big success - of the 100 free nights given away, so far 10 TPG readers have reported success. That’s a pretty nice proportion of the winners in my opinion and I’d like to see that increase as we move into the next cities!Tuesday’s scavenger hunt will be in London and it looks to be a little more complicated than DC - you need to show up to the hotel in your pajamas (I mean pyjamas!...

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here – IHG Rewards Club Select Credit Card, Citi Hilton HHonors Reserve CardChase has been offering a sign-up bonus of 70,000 points for the IHG Rewards Club Select Credit Card after you spend $2,000 in the first three months. While there have been targeted offers for 80,000 points from time to time, 70,000 points is the best one currently available; however, the offer is set to expire tomorrow (Tuesday, March 31), after which it will likely revert to the standard offer of 60,000 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.After traveling more than 8,000 miles (albeit in first class), I was thrilled to check into my room at the Grand Hyatt Tokyo, Roppongi and finally take a breather. While the rooms were small and the views weren’t all that great, it was still nice to be staying in the center of all the action....

Timeshares can often be a topic of scorn, humor or even horror - especially if aggressive sales people constantly hound you with sales calls.However, they can not only open up a new world of affordable vacation options and earn you valuable points and miles at the same time.Marriott Vacation ClubThe Marriott Vacation Club timeshare program.Along with their thousands of hotels around the world, Marriott has a timeshare sales program offering benefits when you purchase a Marriott Vacation Club resale timeshare listed for sale by its owner via a listing agreement with the company and its affiliates....

Click here to donate to our fellow citizens in Puerto Rico who need our help.Last Thursday, I traveled to Puerto Rico to cover relief flights and JetBlue’s operations at San Juan’s Luis Muñoz Marín Airport (SJU). While the airport is back up and running, with dozens of daily flights, Puerto Rico clearly felt like an island still reeling from a record-breaking hurricane and crumbling infrastructure.I began my journey to San Juan on United Flight 1523 from Newark....

The new ANA award chart is slated to go live today (though the booking site seems to be down when I tried it this morning), so I want to dig a little deeper into some of the different award chart prices since ANA is both a Star Alliance member and a American Express Membership Rewards transfer partner. I know it takes some extra time and patience to learn a bit about some of these foreign frequent flyer programs, but I consider it an essential intermediate step in the miles and points world if you want to learn how to take your family around the world for much less....

20th-century science-fiction authors imagined a future where we cohabited with humanoid robots, and they were right. But they did not imagine one thing: that the first places where humans and humanoids interacted would be airports.Robots now do things like scan boarding passes and provide duty free shopping advice. For many people, this will be the very first chance to interact in an everyday context with robots designed to mimic human behavior....

Last week, we shared the great news that United Airlines was once again displaying Singapore award availability on its website, making it much easier to search for — and book — MileagePlus awards.At the time, Singapore Airlines was still restricting access to its best business and first-class awards as it’s done for years, limiting the latest premium products to members redeeming miles from the carrier’s own KrisFlyer program. As a result, anyone looking to redeem miles for business or first class on the Airbus A350, Airbus A380 or Boeing 777-300ER would need to book directly through Singapore, rather than using a partner program, like United MileagePlus or Aeroplan....

As you may already know, I flew the infamous Spirit Airlines for the first time earlier this month, and wrote a post about the interesting experience here. To avoid some of the fees that can make a cheap Spirit Airlines trip much more expensive (including a $100 last minute carry-on fee), I brought my own food and drink, let Spirit assign my seat, printed my own boarding pass, and packed in a big purse instead of my normal roller bag....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here – Chase Sapphire ReserveWhen the Chase Sapphire Reserve launched last month, it quickly became one of the most talked-about credit cards in recent memory. Points and miles hobbyists everywhere were quick to apply for the card with eyes set on the sky-high 100,000-point sign-up bonus and its superior perks. The card was so popular that Chase actually ran out of the embedded metal cards — some new cardmembers received plastic cards to use temporarily, but they’ll get metal replacements once they’re back in stock....

Update 8/28/18: United has confirmed that Boutique Air flights earn miles in the MileagePlus program. Additionally, you’ll be able to redeem miles for these flights to TEX, however awards aren’t appearing just yet. See this page for current earning rates.I learned a new airport code today! It’s TEX, and while Google Flights will probably insist that you must be trying to type “Texas” in the destination field, TEX is in fact code for Telluride Regional Airport, a tiny field just six miles from Telluride (and its namesake ski area) in Colorado....

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.You book a $13,000 first-class ticket from Chicago (ORD) to Tokyo (NRT), have a blast at the Polaris Lounge then board United’s three-cabin 777-200, where a flight attendant asks what you’d like to drink just before departure. Perhaps you order an Old Fashioned — an arguably sophisticated drink for a US-based airline — and then it arrives....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available – United MileagePlus Explorer CardFinding that your United mileage balance is well short of what you need for a dream vacation? If you’re lucky, you’ll be one of the 100 MileagePlus members who end up with a seven-digit balance thanks to United’s Billion Mile Giveaway.Starting Monday, each eligible purchase made on a Chase-issued MileagePlus credit card will earn one entry into United’s contest to give away a total of 1,000,000,000 miles....

American Airlines and Delta currently offer a true premium-economy product on select international flights, matching the offerings available with select foreign carriers. United’s been mum on the topic of premium economy, though — until today.In a memo to employees, the carrier finally shared its plans to launch a product later this year, called United Premium Plus. According to the note, the new seats will be available “on select international flights,” and will include upgraded dining and dinnerware, free booze, an amenity kit and a Saks Fifth Avenue blanket and pillow....

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.Instrument approaches are nothing new in the aviation industry; planes have been able to operate in rain or shine for decades. Landing instrument aids help align the airplane with the runway and proper descent path, and let the pilot take command at some point prior to touching down....

The following is not legal advice. Contact an attorney who is an international legal consultant if you have questions regarding this article.Not knowing what might happen next makes travel exciting. At the same time, this spontaneity can lead to stupidity. When I watch the hit series, Locked Up Abroad, on the National Geographic Channel, I have empathy for travelers doing time in foreign prisons — it’s also very easy to criticize their decisions and declare that this could not happen to me....

A 15-year-old girl collapsed on a flight from London Heathrow (LHR) to Nice, France (NCE), and later died after she ate a baguette from a Pret-a-Manger cafe at LHR and had an allergic reaction.A lawsuit on the matter will begin in West London Coroner’s Court on Monday.Natasha Ednan-Laperouse collapsed on her British Airways flight on July 17, 2016, after eating an artichoke, olive and tapenade baguette from the grab-and-go restaurant in Heathrow’s Terminal 5....