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✈ Are We There Yet? 10 Tips for Surviving Long Haul Flights With Kids & More Daily News From TPG ✈
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TODAY'S POSTS: 
- Are We There Yet? 10 Tips for Surviving Long Haul Flights With Kids  
- Redemption of the Week: Taking a Year Off to Travel  
- Why the Amex Gold Is the Perfect ‘In-Between’ Credit Card  
- Watch the Serious Damage a Drone Can Do to an Aircraft’s Wing  
- Everything You Need to Know About Traveling With Pot  
- WOW Air Will Resume Seasonal Israel Service in Summer 2019  
- Room to Grow: Air Italy’s (A330) Business Class From Milan to New York  
- Ethiopian Airlines Cancels LAX-ADD Route, Axing Fifth Freedom Dublin Stop  
- Best Ways to Redeem Amex Points on Oneworld Airlines  
- Deal Alert: US to Costa Rica From $197 Round-Trip 

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Are We There Yet? 10 Tips for Surviving Long Haul Flights With Kids

By Summer Hull on Oct 18, 2018 08:55 am
There’s flying with kids and then there is surviving long-haul flying with kids. Any amount of time in a small enclosed tube flying through the sky with little ones can be a challenge. However, the challenge is quite different on a two- or three-hour flight than on one that requires up to 18 hours of ...
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Redemption of the Week: Taking a Year Off to Travel

By Peter Rothbart on Oct 18, 2018 08:00 am
For the next Award Redemption of the Week, I want to share a story from TPG reader Brad, who’s cashing in his rewards during a lengthy trip around the world: I’ve been frugal and fortunate enough to be able to save a large portion of my paycheck, so earlier this year I decided to leave my job, ...
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Why the Amex Gold Is the Perfect ‘In-Between’ Credit Card

By Ethan Steinberg on Oct 18, 2018 07:00 am
For all the differences between the major card issuers (Chase, Amex and Citi), their credit card offerings have started to look more and more alike in recent years. Don’t believe me? Let’s play a little game: I’m thinking of a credit card with a $400+ annual fee, hundreds of dollars in annual statement credits, high-value ...
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Watch the Serious Damage a Drone Can Do to an Aircraft’s Wing

By Brendan Dorsey on Oct 18, 2018 06:00 am
Drones have been posing issues for commercial and recreational aircraft ever since their inception. Last year the Federal Aviation Administration released a report stating that drone strikes can cause more damage to aircraft than bird strikes. Now, the University of Dayton Research Institute has provided more evidence of the serious harm these small plastic devices ...
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Everything You Need to Know About Traveling With Pot

By Josh Laskin on Oct 17, 2018 08:00 pm
At midnight on Wednesday, Canada legalized recreational marijuana, making it only the second country to do so after Uruguay. Adults 18 and over will be able to purchase cannabis oil, seeds, plants and dried cannabis, and possess up to 30 grams (1 ounce) of dried cannabis or its equivalent. Regulations for edibles are still pending. Overnight, ...
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WOW Air Will Resume Seasonal Israel Service in Summer 2019

By Katherine Fan on Oct 17, 2018 07:30 pm
Icelandic budget carrier WOW Air will revive its seasonal service to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport next summer. Flights between Tel Aviv (TLV) to the US will connect via Iceland 4x weekly beginning June 10, 2019, from New York (EWR), Boston (BOS), Baltimore (BWI), Detroit (DTW), Chicago (ORD), San Francisco (SFO) and Los Angeles (LAX). ...
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Room to Grow: Air Italy’s (A330) Business Class From Milan to New York

By Zach Honig on Oct 17, 2018 07:00 pm
While low-cost carriers have been dominating transatlantic travel headlines — with both good news and some bad — there’s another new airline that’s still flying a bit under the radar of most consumers: Air Italy. Once known as Meridiana, a carrier with more than 50 years of experience flying Italians and visitors alike under various brand ...
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Ethiopian Airlines Cancels LAX-ADD Route, Axing Fifth Freedom Dublin Stop

By Katherine Fan on Oct 17, 2018 06:30 pm
Ethiopian Airlines is terminating its 4x weekly service between Los Angeles and Addis Ababa, first launched in June 2015. The last flight will depart on December 14. The LAX-ADD route is best known amongst AvGeeks for its stop in Dublin with pick-up privileges, which allows passengers to travel between California and Ireland on one of ...
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Best Ways to Redeem Amex Points on Oneworld Airlines

By Ethan Steinberg on Oct 17, 2018 06:00 pm
One of the biggest benefits of transferable point currencies is the flexibility you have to redeem them. Even if you know exactly what route you want to fly, you can potentially save thousands of points or hundreds of dollars in taxes by picking the right airline transfer partner. If you’re booking premium classes, transferring to ...
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Deal Alert: US to Costa Rica From $197 Round-Trip

By Brendan Dorsey on Oct 17, 2018 05:45 pm
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 ...
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