# The Points Guy \| Departures: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-28, The Points Guy \| Departures has 549,000 subscribers, 169,584,727 total views, and 826 videos. It ranks #138,982 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [The Points Guy \| Departures](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for The Points Guy \| Departures is “This Flight to Skardu Is Not for the Faint of Heart”, a Short published Oct 26, 2026.
- These are The Points Guy \| Departures’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Aug 5, 2026 and Oct 26, 2026 (9 long-form videos and 39 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 22,604. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “We Flew Business Class to All 7 New Wonders of the World” (430,239 views, Sep 9, 2026). Least viewed: “Should You Ask Before Reclining Your Seat? 👀✈️” (1,948 views, Sep 30, 2026).
- Median length: 7:19 for 9 long-form videos; 1:19 for 39 Shorts.
- In this sample, The Points Guy \| Departures’s consecutive uploads were a median of 2 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 8 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 29, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [This Flight to Skardu Is Not for the Faint of Heart](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/hdRlNekh45E/) | 2026-10-26 | Short | 16,091 | 0:50 | 2.52x |
| [Airlines Are Making Award Flights Cheaper… But There’s a Catch!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/Vf42zeyFaIk/) | 2026-10-25 | Short | 3,026 | 0:54 | - |
| [The Surprising Things Korean Air Cabin Crew Keep on Hand](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/yjB9fNRFZDs/) | 2026-10-24 | Short | 21,261 | 1:18 | 3.22x |
| [50% of Airline Loyalty Members Aren't Using Their Rewards 😳✈️](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/gLyc_M0Kx3k/) | 2026-10-24 | Short | 2,514 | 1:23 | - |
| [I Was in the Cockpit for Pakistan’s Most Dangerous Landing](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/Z86hc0hY7cA/) | 2026-10-23 | Long-form | 44,180 | 9:41 | 2x |
| [No Boarding Pass Needed?! Doha Airport Scans Your FACE! 😳✈️](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/EhZa7XJPCSo/) | 2026-10-23 | Short | 8,507 | 0:44 | 1.2x |
| [TSA Just PAUSED This Major Airport Perk! ✈️🚨](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/S5DHczHUsQU/) | 2026-10-21 | Short | 7,107 | 1:01 | 1.01x |
| [Is Korean Air’s Starlink Wi-Fi a Game Changer?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/l_7F-meUYh4/) | 2026-10-20 | Short | 4,814 | 0:46 | - |
| [KLM Just Added a NEW House to Its Iconic Collection! ✈️🏠](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/3FWOcVBVrxQ/) | 2026-10-19 | Short | 91,222 | 1:25 | 10.62x |
| [Stop Checking the Seat Map! American Airlines Has You Covered](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/G10BADVrBgE/) | 2026-10-13 | Short | 10,891 | 1:45 | 1.04x |
| [United Just Made Premier Status Harder to Earn](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/EvkZVJ08oWI/) | 2026-10-13 | Long-form | 17,983 | 3:28 | - |
| [Alaska Cruise Aboard Star Princess](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/DC4Ud9IqiVA/) | 2026-10-12 | Short | 223,864 | 2:02 | 17.54x |
| [Alaska Airlines Is Bringing Lie-Flat Business Class to Its Narrowbody Jets ✈️](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/U52T2jnLcos/) | 2026-10-10 | Short | 8,852 | 1:08 | 1.23x |
| [Japan Airlines Miles Are Having a Moment — But Don’t Wait Too Long](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/EsmkG054un0/) | 2026-10-08 | Short | 20,478 | 2:09 | 1.69x |
| [We Scored Cathay Pacific Business Class Out of 100](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/FtqbXBnnr3c/) | 2026-10-07 | Long-form | 77,673 | 6:35 | 1.46x |
| [Is United Polaris Actually Worth the Hype?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/fJ5zr9_m5wo/) | 2026-10-03 | Short | 31,625 | 1:33 | 2.51x |
| [Why Alaska Airlines Will Never Be the Same](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/WuZfotUOyIE/) | 2026-10-02 | Long-form | 139,434 | 6:20 | 2.54x |
| [Should You Ask Before Reclining Your Seat? 👀✈️](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/pPG-AnOACZE/) | 2026-09-30 | Short | 1,948 | 1:35 | - |
| [Alaska Airlines Is Letting You Choose How You Earn Points](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/gvUG3KSB_4Y/) | 2026-09-29 | Short | 2,421 | 1:14 | - |
| [Who REALLY Gets the Armrests in the Middle Seat? 👀✈️](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/bNDKscKdvIA/) | 2026-09-27 | Short | 5,658 | 0:55 | - |
| [We Tried Air India’s NEW Premium Economy 🇮🇳✈️](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/ewr6pRhhAyk/) | 2026-09-25 | Short | 19,912 | 1:06 | - |
| [Why Southwest Airlines Is Changing Everything](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/_ODOYM7INMk/) | 2026-09-23 | Long-form | 40,947 | 7:19 | - |
| [What’s It Like Flying One of Pakistan’s Newest Airlines? 🇵🇰✈️](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/ewDScQ0orpg/) | 2026-09-20 | Short | 40,916 | 1:23 | 1.14x |
| [Have People Forgotten How to Act on Airplanes? ✈️](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/wNXmLrJd2n4/) | 2026-09-18 | Short | 3,017 | 0:56 | - |
| [Inside Amex’s BRAND-NEW Centurion Lounge in Amsterdam 👀✈️](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/371KnRsdabU/) | 2026-09-16 | Short | 6,862 | 0:59 | - |
| [United Is Betting Big on This Plane — Delta Isn’t ✈️](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/0li7j_uoVRM/) | 2026-09-15 | Short | 46,549 | 1:22 | 1.4x |
| [United Is Betting Big on This Plane — Delta Isn’t ✈️](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/0li7j_uoVRM/) | 2026-09-15 | Long-form | 20,121 | 1:22 | 1.4x |
| [We Took a Helicopter From JFK to Manhattan 🚁](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/jOHG0sTow3Q/) | 2026-09-13 | Short | 21,477 | 0:52 | - |
| [This Plane Ticket Lets You Fly Around the World 🌎](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/JcuGrXljGtU/) | 2026-09-11 | Short | 30,423 | 1:20 | - |
| [We Flew Business Class to All 7 New Wonders of the World](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/BdwuDqd4R4g/) | 2026-09-09 | Long-form | 430,239 | 54:10 | 7.05x |
| [Inside American Airlines Brand-New 777-300ER Flagship Suite](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/ernXxv9Rk0E/) | 2026-09-04 | Long-form | 59,079 | 9:29 | 1.03x |
| [American Airlines’ Most Premium Plane Yet?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/DUXNSDue550/) | 2026-09-02 | Short | 36,372 | 1:10 | 1.08x |
| [We Raced From JFK to the Empire State Building 🏁](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/v46SDt5cz78/) | 2026-09-02 | Short | 97,272 | 1:46 | 3.33x |
| [United’s Brand-New A321XLR Is Here ✈️](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/C45fmdCbHbw/) | 2026-08-25 | Short | 111,486 | 1:04 | 3.8x |
| [Can You Beat a Helicopter Out of JFK?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/-TFtjPdtygM/) | 2026-08-24 | Long-form | 61,611 | 8:29 | 1.1x |
| [We Flew One of the World’s Longest Domestic Flights](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/I1Lg9SnsHv4/) | 2026-08-24 | Short | 25,729 | 1:23 | 1.11x |
| [I Saved $665 on American’s Brand-New Flagship Suite](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/HJneS7LLPKU/) | 2026-08-22 | Short | 21,190 | 1:19 | - |
| [The Most Underrated Flight Across the Atlantic?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/n8g209dgHlI/) | 2026-08-20 | Short | 32,714 | 1:21 | 1.26x |
| [Qantas Built THIS for the World’s Longest Flight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/kuPvHP5lDLQ/) | 2026-08-18 | Short | 220,030 | 0:51 | 8.14x |
| [The First Class Lounge Everyone Is Talking About](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/yefAfFdsjzg/) | 2026-08-16 | Short | 21,026 | 0:55 | - |
| [I Found the Perfect Flight to Chase an Eclipse 🌑✈️](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/iluVIek2C1Q/) | 2026-08-13 | Short | 144,243 | 1:57 | 5.05x |
| [Would you travel for an eclipse? 👀](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/pz1hPD9ZKSs/) | 2026-08-12 | Short | 4,907 | 1:55 | - |
| [Emirates Is Giving Passengers THIS for Free?!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/OgvMwD2A-TA/) | 2026-08-12 | Short | 5,322 | 1:58 | - |
| [I Was Wrong About Air India…](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/slAB3QHB_Dg/) | 2026-08-10 | Short | 66,143 | 1:31 | 1.05x |
| [Delta Just Made Your Starbucks Run More Rewarding](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/yP4MUSAuk4Q/) | 2026-08-08 | Short | 4,855 | 0:57 | - |
| [I Tried Charlotte Airport's New TSA e-Gates. Are They Actually Faster?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/sd52A6oSdtQ/) | 2026-08-07 | Short | 23,730 | 1:02 | 1.04x |
| [China's High-Speed Trains Will Blow Your Mind 🤯🇨🇳](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/DjiY4mTTL2Q/) | 2026-08-06 | Short | 63,833 | 1:38 | 3.71x |
| [I Thought Emirates Was Overrated... I Was Wrong](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thepointsguydepartures/videos/CVRq-fUTZFs/) | 2026-08-05 | Short | 30,231 | 1:22 | 4.69x |

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