The Points Guy ✈ Brex Launches Travel Portal, Offers 4x Points on All Bookings & More Daily News From TPG ✈

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From: The Points Guy - Thursday Dec 13, 2018 02:10 pm
✈ Brex Launches Travel Portal, Offers 4x Points on All Bookings & More Daily News From TPG ✈

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TODAY'S POSTS: 
- Brex Launches Travel Portal, Offers 4x Points on All Bookings  
- American Airlines Adds 18 Regional Routes for Summer 2019, Expands Europe Frequencies  
- Deal Alert: US to Maldives in Business Class For 100k Delta SkyMiles  
- Will I Earn Points While Spending Toward a Welcome Bonus?  
- This New Starbucks Is a 23,000-Square-Foot Coffee Shrine With a Full Bar  
- 10 Cool Things at NYC’s New FAO Schwarz Store  
- 25 Firefighters Had to Clean up a 108-Square-Foot ‘Chocolate Pancake’ After It Leaked From a German Factory  
- Lyft Piloting Discounted Rides to Grocery Stores for Food Desert Residents  
- 7 Reasons You Shouldn’t Stay at the Cadillac Hotel in Miami  
- Use Points Advance to Lock in Marriott Award Pricing Before 2019 

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Brex Launches Travel Portal, Offers 4x Points on All Bookings

By Benji Stawski on Dec 13, 2018 09:00 am
In case you missed it, there’s a new business rewards program on the block, designed specifically for startups and early-stage companies. The newly launched Brex Exclusive rewards program offers Brex card holders up to 7 points per dollar spent along with discounts and credits at participating vendors. Today, the issuer is introducing two new features to make its rewards ...
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American Airlines Adds 18 Regional Routes for Summer 2019, Expands Europe Frequencies

By Emily McNutt on Dec 13, 2018 09:00 am
American Airlines announced on Thursday an 18-route regional network expansion, as well as an increase in frequencies to two of its European destinations. The timing of the route expansion from AA comes in time for the busy summer 2019 travel period, with all of the additions being either year-round or strictly summer seasonal service. On ...
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Deal Alert: US to Maldives in Business Class For 100k Delta SkyMiles

By Darren Murph on Dec 13, 2018 07:30 am
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. If you’ve been speculatively hoarding Delta SkyMiles in hopes of redeeming them for a trip of a lifetime, most of your friends have likely ...
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Will I Earn Points While Spending Toward a Welcome Bonus?

By Ethan Steinberg on Dec 13, 2018 07:00 am
“Reader Questions” are answered twice a week by TPG Senior Points & Miles Contributor Ethan Steinberg. The easiest way to quickly rack up a meaningful amount of frequent flyer miles or credit card points is by taking advantage of a welcome bonus on a new card. These generally follow a pretty standard formula: Spend X ...
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This New Starbucks Is a 23,000-Square-Foot Coffee Shrine With a Full Bar

By Jordan Allen on Dec 13, 2018 06:00 am
New Yorkers, rejoice! There’s a new place to get your caffeine fix. But this is not your typical grab-and-go Starbucks. On Friday, the ubiquitous coffee company will open its fourth mega roastery, this time in New York City’s Meatpacking District. Rather than a small corner café, this Starbucks sprawls across 23,000-square-feet on 9th Avenue and ...
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10 Cool Things at NYC’s New FAO Schwarz Store

By Devorah Lev-Tov on Dec 13, 2018 05:00 am
In 2015, the beloved toy store FAO Schwarz shut its doors on Fifth Avenue in New York City, causing many tears and wistful memories for children — and adults — everywhere. The historic store had been open since 1862 and was known as one of New York’s best toy stores and attractions. Then, last month, ...
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25 Firefighters Had to Clean up a 108-Square-Foot ‘Chocolate Pancake’ After It Leaked From a German Factory

By Samantha Rosen on Dec 12, 2018 09:00 pm
Someone better call up Augustus Gloop. In what looks like a scene out of “Willy Wonka” gone wrong, 25 firefighters were called in to clean up a massive chocolate spill in the town of Westoennen, Germany. At around 8pm Monday, liquid chocolate began to pour out of the DreiMeister chocolate factory in the Werl suburb. Due to ...
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Lyft Piloting Discounted Rides to Grocery Stores for Food Desert Residents

By Brendan Dorsey on Dec 12, 2018 08:30 pm
Ride-hailing companies are changing the way our society moves, in cities and even between them. Both Uber and Lyft have already partnered with local governments to provide subsidized rides in lieu of public transportation. Now Lyft has partnered with Martha’s Table, a Washington DC non-profit, to provide heavily discounted rides to families living in food ...
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7 Reasons You Shouldn’t Stay at the Cadillac Hotel in Miami

By Nicky Kelvin on Dec 12, 2018 08:00 pm
Art Basel is a busy time in Miami. All the hotels are bursting at the seams with travelers in town to enjoy world class art — and world class after parties. Could there be a better time to put a newly renovated hotel to the ultimate test during its soft launch period? The Cadillac Hotel ...
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Use Points Advance to Lock in Marriott Award Pricing Before 2019

By Ethan Steinberg on Dec 12, 2018 07:30 pm
While the Marriott/SPG merger has been fraught with delays and technological problems, earlier this week it crossed a major threshold: All legacy SPG brands have been migrated over to the Marriott IT platform for reservations. This is great news for a couple of reasons. Not only will it be harder (or hopefully impossible) for certain ...
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