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From: The Points Guy - Thursday Oct 04, 2018 01:08 pm
✈ The Ultimate Guide to International Smartphone Use & More Daily News From TPG ✈
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TODAY'S POSTS: 
- The Ultimate Guide to International Smartphone Use  
- How Delta Medallion Members Can Get Preferred Seats on Partner Airlines  
- Redemption of the Week: A Trip for 2 Across Europe  
- How 5G Could Transform the Travel Industry  
- The FAA Just Made It Easier to Fly Your Drone near Airports  
- You Can Now Visit 17 National Parks Along One Trail in Chile  
- The Best Business Credit Cards for Baggage Insurance  
- Spirit Airlines Adds New Restrictions on Emotional Support Animals  
- Apple Update Brings New Travel-Related Emojis to Users  
- Another Company Unveiled a Hyperloop Passenger Pod 

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The Ultimate Guide to International Smartphone Use

By Darren Murph on Oct 04, 2018 08:30 am
We’re all for disconnecting while on vacation. But sometimes — whether you’re traveling for business or searching for directions — having an internet connection can be seriously useful, even crucial, when traveling abroad. Not all that long ago, international travelers had to choose between paying exorbitant roaming rates from their US carrier, or worrying about ...
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How Delta Medallion Members Can Get Preferred Seats on Partner Airlines

By Ross Binkley on Oct 04, 2018 08:00 am
Having elite status with an airline can definitely make life easier for frequent travelers, both in the airport and onboard the aircraft. One common in-flight benefit of elite status is complimentary preferred economy seats, such as seats in the front rows, bulkhead rows, and exit rows. While they’re still just normal economy seats, preferred seats ...
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Redemption of the Week: A Trip for 2 Across Europe

By Peter Rothbart on Oct 04, 2018 07:00 am
For the next Award Redemption of the Week, I want to share a story from TPG reader David, who used favorable transfer ratios to book premium transatlantic flights: I recently started accumulating points and miles mostly through welcome bonuses. The idea was to have enough for a sightseeing trip to Europe for my wife and me. After ...
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How 5G Could Transform the Travel Industry

By Isabel Thottam on Oct 04, 2018 06:00 am
“Imagine being in the airport, and your plane starts to board in five minutes. You realize you don’t have anything to watch during the flight, so you scramble to try and download your favorite movie before you need to go,” Conor Campbell, senior manager of corporate communications at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., told The Points Guy. “Today, you’d be ...
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The FAA Just Made It Easier to Fly Your Drone near Airports

By Brendan Dorsey on Oct 04, 2018 05:00 am
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has restricted heavily drones from flying in controlled airspace, which includes areas within five miles of airports. That rule has negatively effected many drone professionals and hobbyists, due to the sweeping areas that were defined as off-limits. Now, the FAA has cleared nine companies, including prominent drone maker DJI ...
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You Can Now Visit 17 National Parks Along One Trail in Chile

By Haley Mellen on Oct 03, 2018 08:30 pm
Travelers can now follow a single 1,740-mile-long trail to visit 17 of Chile’s most stunning national parks on one unforgettable journey. Called the Ruta de los Parques de la Patagonia (Route of the Parks of Patagonia), this path originates in Puerto Montt — the gateway to Chile’s Lake District — and snakes all the way along the ...
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The Best Business Credit Cards for Baggage Insurance

By Mike Cetera on Oct 03, 2018 08:00 pm
Here at TPG, we tend to focus on the points you can earn — both with everyday spending and on welcome bonuses — with rewards credit cards. That’s where you’re most likely to get the greatest return from your cards of choice. But great points value won’t be at the top of your mind if ...
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Spirit Airlines Adds New Restrictions on Emotional Support Animals

By Jordan Allen on Oct 03, 2018 07:30 pm
The trend of airlines tightening rules on emotional support animals has reached Spirit. Starting Oct. 15, the budget airline will be adding a wealth of new regulations to its service pet policy. The new policies were posted recently on Spirit Airlines’ website and require significantly more paperwork than their original, single letter from a licensed mental ...
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Apple Update Brings New Travel-Related Emojis to Users

By Jordan Allen on Oct 03, 2018 07:00 pm
iPhone users, get excited. As a part of iOS 12.1,  Apple is adding 70 new emojis to the roster — and some of them can be used to describe your travels. “More than 70 new emoji(s) will be coming soon to iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac, including new characters with red hair, gray hair and ...
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Another Company Unveiled a Hyperloop Passenger Pod

By Brendan Dorsey on Oct 03, 2018 06:30 pm
While Elon Musk deals with an investigation by the Securities and Exchanges Commission, his vision of Hyperloop is coming closer and closer to fruition. On Tuesday, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (unaffiliated with Musk) unveiled the world’s first full-scale passenger hyperloop pod. The capsule, which HTT hopes will hit speeds of 620 mph moving through vacuum-sealed tubes, was ...
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