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Qantas is ordering more Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners, the aircraft that will eventually replace the Australian carrier’s aging fleet of 747s.On Wednesday, Qantas announced that it has ordered six additional Boeing 787-9 aircraft to fly on its international network, which it will take delivery of between 2019 and 2020. With the order also comes bad news for the Queen of the Skies. Qantas confirmed that by the time it gets all of its new Dreamliners — it will have 14 in its fleet by the end of 2020 — it’ll have accelerated the retirement of its last six Boeing 747s....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here – Chase Sapphire Preferred CardUpdate: As of July 20, 2014, the Chase Sapphire Preferred Card no longer offers the 7% annual points dividend. View the current sign up offer here.Last year, Chase launched a program called First Friday where cardholders of the Sapphire Preferred and Sapphire cards would earn 3X points per $1 at restaurants on the first Friday of every month (instead of the normal 2X points per $1)....

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’re looking to escape the hot Italian sun on your summer vacation to Rome, resist the temptation to jump into the Trevi Fountain. It just might be the most expensive dip of your life.The Mayor of Rome announced on Monday that anyone caught swimming, wading, washing or even eating near the famous fountain will be slapped with a 240 euro (about $269) fine....

Southwest Airlines announced new changes to its emotional support animal policy on Tuesday.The low-cost carrier is limiting emotional support animals to only cats and dogs, and they must remain on a leash or in a carrier at all times. Customers will also be limited to one emotional support animal each.The new changes will take effect on September 17 and can now be found on Southwest’s disability policy page on its website....

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.Back in October 2017, Southwest finally made a long-awaited announcement via a casual Twitter reply: The low-cost carrier would launch flights to Hawaii. The obvious questions have been pondered since: What routes would Southwest fly? And when would the flights begin?...

Peak summer travel season is almost upon us.And with the anticipation of beach vacations and long holiday weekends comes a dreaded side effect: Long lines at airport Transportation Security Administration checkpoints.The TSA expects a massive crush of 2.7 million passengers a day to fly out of US airports during peak days this summer (like Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day), agency Administrator David Pekoske said Thursday.Those numbers will nearly break the agency’s record for most passengers screened in one day....

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 Farnborough air show kicked off Monday, and United Airlines is the first US carrier out of the gate at the biggest aviation trade event. The Chicago-based airline added four more Dreamliners, picking up more of the longer-range 787-9 variant, along with 25 Embraer E175 regional jets....

Now through September 9, 2012, Aeroplan is offering a bonus when you transfer points from its hotel and car loyalty program partners into Aeroplan miles, you score bonuses of up to 10,000 miles. (Registration link). Note: Transfers from American Express Membership Rewards do not qualify for this promotion.Here’s how it breaks down:So when you convert enough points for 5,000 Aeroplan miles, you get 1,000 bonus miles. When you convert enough points to equate to 10,000 Aeroplan miles, you get 2,000 bonus mile....

The US Department of Transportation’s office of the Inspector General announced it would open a new probe of the Federal Aviation Administration’s handling of two US airlines: Allegiant and American Airlines.In a memo published Wednesday, Assistant IG Matthew Hampton announced the watchdog body would be narrowing an industry-wide investigation into the FAA’s oversight of airline maintenance, which was opened in June 2017, to just look specifically at how the FAA handled Allegiant and American....

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 the words of the infamous Chris Crocker — leave the sea lions alone. Not even 24 hours after a tourist was nearly mauled by a sea lion, a different tourist has stepped in to tempt fate in the very same place with the very same animal....

As a result of the largest antitrust settlement in United States history, merchants in 40 states are now able to tack on a fee of up to 4% per credit card transaction - spelling potential disaster for those of us looking to rack up miles and points by using credit cards.The dispute dates to 2005, when retailers claimed Visa and MasterCard conspired to fix the processing fees that stores pay to accept credit and debit cards, typically 1....

This week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced a carry-on electronics ban affecting flights to the US from 10 airports in 8 countries. The basics of the electronics ban are covered here, but this announcement left a lot of questions from readers.Here are some frequently asked questions with all of the information that we know at this time.Why is the US taking these steps now?...

“Reader Questions” are answered three days a week — Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays — by TPG Senior Writer Julian Mark Kheel.If you’re thinking about canceling an Ultimate Rewards credit card but don’t want the points to disappear, can you transfer them to someone else? That’s what TPG reader Gary asked us in a Facebook message…[pullquote source=“TPG Reader Gary”]If my wife gifts her Chase Sapphire Reserve points to my Ultimate Rewards account, will they expire if she then closes her card?...

Use code YTOCHD to receive a la carte, pay-as-you-fly trial access with JetSmarter.For any frequent flyer or avgeek, flying private is a different and unique experience, often with a level of service that you’re unlikely to get on any commercial plane. As TPG says, you might not want to start flying private because the minute you start, you become totally jaded about everything else. And JetSmarter is one of TPG’s favorite apps to use to take advantage of a private jet experience — especially now that it’s launching a New York to London route....

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 – Hilton Honors Surpass Card from American ExpressHilton’s already running a promotion that allows you to earn 2,000 bonus Honors points per night of each stay between now and April 30, 2017....

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.It’s been a month since Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano first erupted, but it’s consequences remain. Lava flows are showing no signs of relenting and there are still dangers of vog (volcanic gas) and Pele’s hair (thin strands of volcanic glass)....

Airbus’ newest wide-body, the A350, is truly a masterpiece of modern aviation. As Airbus’ counter to Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, there are a lot of shared features between the two aircraft — from aircraft size to passenger-friendly features like larger windows and better cabin pressure.But if you’re an American Airlines flyer, you’re going to have to wait even longer to experience an A350. Last June, the carrier delayed delivery of its A350s from spring 2017 to late 2018....

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.Iberia.com is pricing some pretty cheap flights to Casablanca, Morocco. I’m seeing around $350 TOTAL from NY and a little more from Boston and Chicago. Play around with your city and different dates from now until May.I went to Marrakesh last year and absolutley loved it....

Over the past couple of months, The Points Guy team has been growing rapidly — we’re now a team of more than 15 people across several departments: editorial, marketing, operations and social media. To accommodate the growth, we finally moved to our own 8,000-square-foot office in Manhattan’s Flatiron District and it is truly #AvGeek heaven.We moved into the new space just about a month ago, and while we’re still applying the final touches, we’re excited to host readers at our office for the next reader event, which we’re calling “Travel to TPG....

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey sued Delta Air Lines on Tuesday for damages at New York’s Laguardia Airport (LGA) after an airplane skidded off a runway in 2015.The skid happened during a March 5, 2015 snowstorm when Flight 1086 slid off of LGA’s runway 13. But, the Port Authority, which runs the airport, says the incident “was caused solely by the negligence of Delta and its agents,” which includes the airplane’s pilot, Reuters reports....