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From: The Points Guy - Tuesday Jan 14, 2020 03:11 pm

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Jan 14, 2020

NEW AIRLINE ROUTES

Between our elite status series and all of the credit card news, it's been such a busy January that I haven't yet had a chance to share one of my favorite posts of the month: our roundup of the most exciting new airline routes!

This month's highlights include:

And that's not all — I even got to experience what I consider to be December's most exciting new route firsthand, a nonstop flight from Newark to Cape Town. See what it was like onboard United's special Dreamliner flight to South Africa, and check out all of the month's new flights right here.

-Zach Honig, Editor-at-Large

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