The Points Guy ✈ The 19 Best and Worst Airline Moments of 2018 & More Daily News From TPG ✈

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From: The Points Guy - Monday Dec 24, 2018 02:08 pm
✈ The 19 Best and Worst Airline Moments of 2018 & More Daily News From TPG ✈

2018 Year In Review
As we approach the end of the year, it's time to look back on an eventful twelve months. Check out year in review analyses for both credit cards and points & miles as a reminder of everything we gained (and lost) in 2018.
TODAY'S POSTS: 
- The 19 Best and Worst Airline Moments of 2018  
- How a Trip to New Zealand Saved Me $2,000 — Reader Success Story  
- My Two-Month Itinerary Across the South Pacific Using Award-Chart Sweet Spots  
- Airports to Avoid If Travel Stresses You Out  
- Fly Lie-Flat Biz to Cancun and Anchorage Coming to AA Dreamliners  
- Electrical Fire Forces China Southern Flight to Make Emergency Landing  
- 2 Tourists Killed in Morocco by Terrorists Who Pledged Allegiance to ISIS  
- How to Redeem Miles With the Delta Air Lines SkyMiles Program  
- Are River Cruises Right for Kids?  
- Puppies Take Flight as American Airlines Volunteers Transport Assistance Dogs 

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The 19 Best and Worst Airline Moments of 2018

By Eric Rosen on Dec 24, 2018 08:50 am
As we approach the end of another year, it’s time to survey the airline industry’s highs and lows from 2018. This year’s top airline stories included charity flights and moments of human kindness and compassion. The worst included unimaginable, and possibly avoidable, tragedies. Here’s a look back at 2018 and some of the most memorable ...
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How a Trip to New Zealand Saved Me $2,000 — Reader Success Story

By The Points Guy on Dec 24, 2018 07:00 am
Today I want to share a story from TPG reader Jenn, who used an unexpected routing to find award availability: Just got home from the trip of a lifetime, with flights and a week in New Zealand almost free thanks to points and miles. We booked a cruise that disembarked in Tahiti. Flights back to the States ...
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My Two-Month Itinerary Across the South Pacific Using Award-Chart Sweet Spots

By Brian Biros on Dec 24, 2018 06:00 am
The Points & Miles Backpacker is a weekly column appearing every Monday. TPG Contributor Brian Biros, who has backpacked the globe for the past 15 years, discusses how to fund this adventurous, budgeted and increasingly popular form of travel with points and miles. He’ll also explore all things backpacking-related. Read his story here and his high-level approach here. Travelers don’t often ...
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Airports to Avoid If Travel Stresses You Out

By Alyssa Cerchiai on Dec 23, 2018 07:30 pm
If you traveled from LaGuardia (LGA) this year, you might feel validated in the results of a recent study conducted by InsureMyTrip, which has deemed the airport ‘Most Stressful’. The study evaluated the stressfulness of 75 US airports based on the percentage of flights cancelled throughout 2018 and then numerically ranked them. LGA had the highest ...
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Fly Lie-Flat Biz to Cancun and Anchorage Coming to AA Dreamliners

By JT Genter on Dec 23, 2018 07:00 pm
Every other month, we at TPG go through American Airlines’ schedule to find all of the internationally-configured wide-body aircraft that AA is flying domestically. These flights are great for getting a spacious lie-flat seat rather than a standard recliner seat in business class, and most aircraft have in-flight entertainment screens and in-seat power in economy. ...
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Electrical Fire Forces China Southern Flight to Make Emergency Landing

By Max Prosperi on Dec 23, 2018 06:30 pm
A China Southern Airlines flight between Malaysia and China made an emergency landing at the fight’s origin city after a fire ignited in-flight shortly after takeoff. The flight, which originated in Penang, Malaysia (PEN), was bound for Guangzhou, China (CAN), the airline’s primary hub. Based on photos posted to Twitter via the account ChinaAviationReview, it ...
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2 Tourists Killed in Morocco by Terrorists Who Pledged Allegiance to ISIS

By Max Prosperi on Dec 23, 2018 06:00 pm
A total of 13 men have been arrested by Moroccan authorities following the grizzly slaying of two young Scandinavian backpackers. The bodies of the two young women, Maren Ueland (28) of Norway and Louisa Jespersen (24) of Denmark, were found in an unguarded region of the Atlas Mountains. The two women were visiting Morocco to hike ...
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How to Redeem Miles With the Delta Air Lines SkyMiles Program

By Andrew Kunesh on Dec 23, 2018 05:30 pm
If you’ve kept up with the points and miles game over the past few years, you’ve probably heard Delta SkyMiles called “SkyPesos” at least once. This term is frequently used as the derisive name of the carrier’s currency thanks to unannounced devaluations and the removal of award charts in 2015, making the price of awards ...
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Are River Cruises Right for Kids?

By Lissa Poirot on Dec 23, 2018 05:00 pm
While major cruise lines are wowing families with mega-ships with cool features like bumper cars, rock-climbing walls, 10-story waterslides, surf simulators, iFly skydiving and more, river cruise lines are slower to catch up in that department. Especially popular in Europe, river cruises meander slowly down rivers like the Danube and the Rhine, stopping in intimate ...
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Puppies Take Flight as American Airlines Volunteers Transport Assistance Dogs

By JT Genter on Dec 23, 2018 04:30 pm
While Delta is busy kicking puppies off flights, American Airlines is actively welcoming them on board — at least as part of its Puppies in Flight program. The long-running AA program uses employee volunteers to transport puppies to Assistance Dogs International accredited trainers or to take older trainees on familiarization flights. In 2018, 400 American Airlines ...
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