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Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Want to see the latest flight deals as soon as they’re published? Follow The Points Guy on Facebook and Twitter, and subscribe to text message alerts from our deals feed, @tpg_alerts.Airfare deals are typically only available on limited dates. We recommend you use Google Flights to find dates to fly, then book through an online travel agency such as Orbitz or Expedia, which allows you to cancel flights without penalty by 11pm Eastern Time within one day of booking....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Want to see the latest flight deals as soon as they’re published? Follow The Points Guy on Facebook and Twitter, and subscribe to text message alerts from our deals feed, @tpg_alerts.While we’ve seen a slew of great Delta economy SkyMiles deals, premium cabin deals are more rare. Today, we’re seeing a new flash sale for flights to Tokyo or Seoul for 70,000 SkyMiles round-trip on Delta’s true premium economy product, Premium Select....

“Is that bread?” and “are those hot towels?” were the two questions I overhead the lead flight attendant ask as I boarded American Airlines Flight 1285 from Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) to Boston (BOS) on Wednesday.When the catering truck pulled up to the 11-year-old Boeing 737-800, Jo, the first-class flight attendant, wanted to know what was going on.(Photo by Zach Griff/The Points Guy)After all, throughout the pandemic, the airline hasn’t been serving a full meal service with hot food in its domestic premium cabin....

Another day, another traditional hotel company is throwing its hat into the ring of all-inclusive resorts.IHG Hotels & Resorts, owner of brands such as InterContinental and Holiday Inn, this week announced a partnership with Spain’s Iberostar to add up to 70 all-inclusive resorts to its network. While IHG won’t actually own this Iberostar Beachfront Resorts brand, the partnership is billed as delivering the company its 18th brand.The move is the latest in a string of brand additions over the last decade at IHG....

Many skaters choose to inline skate in unusual places with off-road skating and all-terrain roller sports. These activities require skates that are designed with bigger wheels that make them much better suited for rolling on a variety of surface textures. Off-road and all-terrain skating is a combination of mountain biking, skiing and rollerblading squeezed into one skating sport. Who Tries Off-Road and All-Terrain Skating? Off-road inline skating is exciting and fun for people who want to try skating on or touring a variety of outdoor landscapes....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.recently helped my parents book an epic trip to Italy using 125,000 Delta SkyMiles each for Alitalia business class from New York (JFK)- Rome and returning from Milan back to JFK. My parents used their miles from the Barclaycard Arrival Plus World Elite Mastercard to pay for some nice bed and breakfasts in Italy, and then used Hyatt and Starpoints to cover the remainder of their hotel stays....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Well, that didn’t take long.Within two hours of the launch of this year’s Starbucks holiday cup on Friday, the coffee behemoth was embroiled in a Christmas-related controversy yet again — this time because there were so few cups to go around.What’s more, at least one eagle-eyed caffeine fiend who actually got her mitts on a red Starbucks cup noticed that Starbucks employees fill it up by using, and then tossing out, a regular paper cup, meaning that the holiday cup may create more waste than if you’d never gotten it at all....

Meeting people at work is one of the easiest ways to make new friends. Having a job means you need to be somewhere at certain times where you’re often required to interact with others. This alone gives you an advantage in being more social. After all, you’ll be making small talk, eating lunch with people, and talking about work throughout your day. While any work environment provides opportunities to make friends, some jobs are more social than others....

Two of the regional carriers owned by American Airlines are hiking pilot pay in a way that could set off shockwaves throughout the industry.New-hire first officers at Envoy Air and Piedmont Airlines will soon make $90 an hour, an unheard-of figure in an industry where, until this week, the top starting salary for an entry-level first officer was $52.98. That was for pilots at Endeavor Air, the regional airline wholly owned by Delta Air Lines, which has long been considered the industry pay leader....

Citi is a TPG advertising partnerUpdate: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Today I want to share a story from TPG reader Rob, whose credit card benefits helped him save on a recent purchase when the price dropped:I bought a large number of LED lights to decorate my house and tree for the holidays (through a shopping portal to maximize that purchase). Since this fell into my non-bonus, everyday spend category, I used my Citi® Double Cash Card for the reliable 2% back....

Being “walked” is a travel term for showing up at a hotel for your reservation, only to find that there’s no room for you. This happens when a hotel is oversold or when a new hotel isn’t open to the public, as TPG senior reporter Katie Genter recently experienced.Oftentimes, this means you’re accommodated at a nearby hotel, but some hotel groups have published compensation policies to go alongside this. This means you may be able to make out with extra points and even cash compensation when you’re walked....

In 2019, I managed to fly well over 200,000 miles, including trips to Australia, Asia, a handful of cities in Europe, and Cape Town, South Africa — twice.As you might expect, 2020 looked entirely different. I still managed to work in a few long-haul trips, including a January hop in Lufthansa first class and a mid-pandemic flight in Emirates’ latest suite, but I largely spent this year close to home, focused on socially distanced road trips and dreaming up bigger adventures for 2021....

If you’ve been to an airport lately, you know security checkpoints are nearly as busy as they were before the pandemic. With holiday travel around the corner and vaccination rates rising, more people are taking to the skies.For more TPG news delivered each morning to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter.However, more people in the air also means more people on the ground — in the security screening line....

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The Tiger 90 was an unusual machine. It was not a touring motorcycle, nor a sports bike, but it did have capabilities to do most things well. Compared to current motorcycles, the overall performance was excellent, with a top speed of around 90 mph and a fuel consumption of 80 mpg. However, it must be remembered that motorcycles in the 60s were not subject to today’s emission control standards....

It’s the start of hurricane season — which means, beyond coronavirus travel restrictions, you’ll want to be extra vigilant on how the weather may impact your upcoming travels.New to The Points Guy? Sign up for our daily newsletter.What’s the first storm to watch this season? Tropical Storm Claudette formed early this morning in Louisiana and is making its way through the Deep South and Southeast this Father’s Day weekend.Tropical Storm Claudette has moved through New Orleans and is moving through Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia over the next few days....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Credit card companies have instituted a deluge of new benefits and bonus categories over the last few months. Some of these are meant to entice customers to increase their spending, while others are designed to make existing benefits easier to use. With travel perks becoming less useful, at-home benefits like food delivery and grocery spending bonuses are more appealing than ever — and we’re seeing new (or updated) partnerships crop up from many card issuers....

I have had nearly every hair style possible. I changed my hairstyle from shoulder-length, to a buzz cut, to a long, layered style. As I was growing my hair out from the buzz-cut, I dove with almost every imaginable length of hair. The best was when my hair was boy-cut. The worst was when my hair reached a jaw-bone length bob (impossible to tie back, but too long to let free)....

France is one step closer to banning its shortest flights.French lawmakers in the National Assembly voted on Saturday to prohibit domestic flights on all routes that could be covered by a train in less than two-and-a-half hours, Reuters reported.Want more airline-specific news? Sign up for TPG’s free new biweekly Aviation newsletter!The ban on ultra-short-haul air travel is part of a broader climate bill meant to help the nation cut its carbon emissions by 40% in 2030 from 1990 levels....

This air fryer bacon wrapped pork tenderloin is tender and juicy on the outside and wrapped with perfectly crisp bacon! Using your air fryer makes this dish as easy as can be. Not to mention, it is ready to enjoy in under 30 minutes! Best Air Fried Pork Tenderloin With Bacon My air fryer is easily one of my favorite appliances in my kitchen! It makes everything so easy and effortless to prepare while still tasting delicious!...