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There’s just a few days left, but if you have a Mastercard, you’re eligible for a couple discounts on reservations made on Air Canada until June 30 (Saturday) for travel between now and December 14, 2012.First, you’ve got to register your card by June 30 to get a special promo code. Then go to aircanada.com/priceless to use your code on new reservations for one of the following two offers.Offer 1: 15% off flights between Canada and New YorkSave 15% on any Air Canada published Economy or Executive Classfare with promo code between Canada and New York City including LaGuardia, JFK and Newark....

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.US Airways just loves to give out bonus miles - whether it’s their yearly Grand Slam promotion or their frequent buy-mile promos - it’s not very difficult to rack up tons of Dividend Miles. The great thing about US Airways miles is that you can redeem on Star Alliance partners and they have some amazing redemptions, like 90,000 miles roundtrip in business class to North Asia and 110,000 miles in business class roundtrip to Australia/New Zealand - as well as off-peak awards....

American Airlines revealed its quarterly earnings Thursday morning. While these earnings exceeded analyst expectations, its pre-tax earnings dropped nearly in half compared to the same period in 2017, due to increased fuel costs.In his opening remarks on the investor earnings call, AA CEO Doug Parker said this had been the “most challenging quarter” since the merger with US Airways. This was in part due to the 3,000+ flight cancellations the airline experienced when its wholly-owned subsidiary PSA Airlines had to ground thousands if flights because of a computer system failure....

Former Air Canada Altitude Super Elite traveler Eric Wong is elite no more. And he’s suing Air Canada because of it.Wong, an IT consultant who frequently travels across the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia for his job, has consistently flown enough to earn top elite status with Air Canada since 2012, a status conferred on travelers who annually fly more than 100,000 miles with the airline. Wong also is a points and miles enthusiast who participated in Air Canada’s “Earn Your Wings” promotion, which helped him earn collectible badges, bonus miles and additional perks that made him a high-profile Air Canada passenger....

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.As of Tuesday, Airbnb hosts who use August Smart Locks and Keypads will be able to generate custom keyless entry codes, automatically emailed to guests at their designated check-in time, with detailed instructions.Up until now, hosts with August-equipped Airbnbs have been able to manually generate custom key codes for incoming guests....

Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific is expanding its presence on the East Coast of the US. As reported by the South China Morning Post, Cathay is expected to launch a new nonstop route between Hong Kong (HKG) and Washington, DC (IAD). Sources familiar with the matter confirmed to the Post that the carrier is expected to make a formal announcement next week.With the launch of the IAD-HKG route, which is expected to commence in 2018, Washington, DC, will now have its only nonstop option to Hong Kong....

Emirates president Sir Tim Clark has confirmed some pretty exciting news for the airline’s hard product. On the company’s podcast, Clark confirmed rumors that had been swirling for years that Emirates would install premium economy seats on its aircraft.When asked by the podcast’s host if Premium Economy had a future on Emirates, Clark responded:“It remains a hot topic in [the] company. We have already specced out the airplanes, we know exactly what we are going to do, where we are going to place these seats… which zones and how we are going to design the product....

Emirates has saved the superjumbo Airbus A380 from its impending doom. On Thursday, the Dubai-based carrier announced that it’s signed a Memorandum of Understanding an order for up to 36 of the A380s, a deal worth $16 billion.Emirates’ announcement comes less than four days after Airbus’ sales chief said that production of the aircraft would come to a halt if it didn’t get an order from Emirates.As part of this announcement, Emirates has officially placed a firm order for 20 of the aircraft, which are scheduled to begin delivery in 2020....

Expo is shorthand for “World’s Exposition,” the more recent incarnation of the World’s Fair. TPG Contributor Leigh Rowan recently visited this year’s Expo, held in Milan, Italy — here’s his experience from the Alitalia and Etihad Airways pavilion.One of the highlights of the Milan Expo is the Alitalia and Etihad Airways pavilion, which featured all sorts of fun stuff for frequent flyers. The two airlines are co-sponsors of this year’s Expo — probably not a total coincidence, considering that the Abu Dhabi-based airline now has a 49-percent stake in Alitalia — and their joint exhibition space is truly a treat to behold....

In the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s 2014-2015 Priority Guidance Plan (or business plan), the IRS is currently proposing that travel industry companies pay taxes on the front end of their loyalty program transactions, rather than waiting to pay those taxes until program members make redemptions. This shift in tax timing would mean that travel industry companies would almost surely pass these up-front costs along to their loyalty program members in the form of points and miles devaluations....

“And before I go, we didn’t create any situation, we flew the aircraft in a safe manner and my boss will be in contact with your boss. Good day.“No, that’s not a line from the now-defunct sitcom LA to Vegas.An Aer Lingus pilot operating Flight EI104 from New York (JFK) to Dublin (DUB) got into a heated confrontation with an air traffic controller shortly after taking off on Sunday evening. The pilot requested to reroute due concerns of problematic weather ahead, but the controller refused, claiming that weather is light, and instead put the plane in a holding pattern for quite some time....

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.American Airlines, who just announced an amazing double elite miles promotion, also announced a new promo to buy back expired miles through December 31, 2011. Normally AA allows you to buy back miles at $50 for every 5,000 miles (subject to 7....

As I’ve written about before, Routehappy is a cool new site for travelers that rates airlines and specific flights based on user-generated reviews of everything from the type of seats to the WiFi availability to entertainment options.This morning, Routehappy launched a new generation website with Meta search that matches its “Happiness Score” to a low-fare search engine with pricing and availability from Amadeus, a fare search engine so that users can price out specific flights....

There are a few fun travel contests and sweepstakes going on around the web this week. Here are some of our the TPG top picks to win some great travel prizes.Win a trip to Melbourne, Australia.Win A Trip To Melbourne: Visit Melbourne is sponsoring a contest where you can win a vacation for two in Melbourne, Australia. You have to like their Facebook page and play a little game there where you have to answer a question per day about the city and traveling there....

Update 8/28/17: We’ve updated the text below to reflect a cap of $20 in credit earned on Whole Foods purchases.Uber has announced that it’s bringing back a new version of its Local Offers rewards program, teaming up with Visa to reintroduce it as Visa Local Offers.The original partnership which started in August 2016 and ended in late 2016 is back. Now, US Uber riders will be able to earn Uber credits when they shop at participating restaurants and businesses with their Visa card(s) that are attached to their Uber account....

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 recent months, United has been coming up with different ways of improving its customer service and in-flight experience reputation. Last year, the carrier announced that it was bringing back complimentary snacks to economy passengers, the ability for airport agents to compensate unhappy passengers with goodwill certificates of up to $125 and equipping customer service reps with the iPhone 6 Plus....

Last week while I was booking award tickets on Korean Air using Ultimate Rewards points, a friend of mine told me that he would be flying from New York JFK to Seoul this past Saturday. Originally, he had a flight on hold in business class for a round trip fare of $8,484.90, but in an unlucky turn of events he received a memo from the company he works for stating that the senior management privilege of booking business class for long-distance travel would be withdrawn for all new bookings, and instead employees would have to book premium economy or economy - and that first class travel was not authorized under any circumstances....

Update: Thankfully, the fuel surcharges shown below disappeared after a couple of days. We reached out to Virgin Atlantic to make sense of the switcheroo, and the airline provided us with the following comment: “Virgin Atlantic has not made any changes to pricing. We have replicated the routes and cabins which were included in the article and could not replicate the information.”We’re hoping it’s yet another IT glitch, or just a temporary mishap, but those who have attempted to book Delta-operated flights via Virgin Atlantic’s Flying Club today are being greeted with grotesque fuel surcharges....

Link to play the game to get 1,000 free miles.Update: This appears to be dead.. I’m still going to keep an eye on it to see if they open it up to more contestants given the popularity of the promotion. Feel free to Tweet @AAdvantage and let them know you weren’t happy about the buggy site and super limited time the promotion was available. I have no idea why they’d email so many people for such a limited promotion- seems like a waste of time to me!...

Today, I want to share a story from TPG reader Danielle, whose upgrade was less rewarding than she expected. Here’s what she had to say:My friends and I booked an amazing South African vacation on Qatar with flights from LAX-DOH-JNB for $602 per person. I’m Platinum Pro on American Airlines, and since Qatar is a Oneworld partner, this was an even better deal because I could earn miles and elite credits using my AAdvantage frequent flyer number....