It’s not just the man who used an airline’s mistaken downgrade as an excuse for groping and sexually insulting a flight attendant. Here are two stories out of Canada this week: Couple Attempts to Hide Acts on Plane via Coat Over Laps Despite Also Being Topless. The New York Daily News leads, ‘Her pants were […]
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Technology is a beautiful thing. It enables me to do what I love for a living every day. iPhone apps are also a lovely thing. They enable all kinds of things, from an on-demand car service, to other on-demand "services."
CNN had a story today about a new iPhone app which will tell you the chances of your plane crashing. "Am I Going Down?" is available in the iTunes store for 99 cents.
When you use the app you enter your origin, destination, airline, and aircraft, and it will tell you the probability of you "going down."
So, you want to fly British Airways on a 747 from New York to London?
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The AP’s Scott Mayerowitz goes for the easy opener on news of Skymall’s bankruptcy. Apparently, airline passengers aren’t buying enough garden gnomes, superhero pajamas and heated cat shelters. Sales dropped nearly in half year over year and by three quarters over the past four years. The company believes people flipped through the magazine less and […]
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The Washington Post ran a fun story yesterday mapping President Obama's 2014 travel.
Literally month-by-month they mapped out all stops that Obama made. How much did he travel in 2014?
"Over the course of the year, according to our estimates, Obama traveled over 188,000 miles. That's all movement, from the White House to the State Department or from the White House to Australia."
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Every month I make a post with what I consider to be the best credit card sign-up bonuses of the month.
While there are several excellent long standing credit card offers, the specifics of the best offers are constantly changing (be it the annual fee, minimum spend requirement, or even amount of the sign-up bonus).
If you read my blog on a daily basis then by all means skip this post, but for me it’s a useful, “current” place to refer people that ask about which cards they should sign-up for, a question I get on a daily basis. For reference, here is my list of the best credit card sign up bonuses for December.
With that in mind, below are what I consider to be the best credit card sign-up bonuses for this month.
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I recently found myself riding along in the car of tomorrow on an autonomous road trip from Palo Alto to Las Vegas.
Yesterday I noted that American is ramping up its investment in onboard cookies. Implicit is an acceptance that soft product matters, even if the most important things are, in order: Safety Schedule Seat Premium cabins need some minimum standard meal, and minimum standard of attentive service. Onboard entertainment is believed to matter, which is why […]
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A couple of days ago I wrote about rumors that Royal Air Maroc will soon be joining the Star Alliance.
I can't say they're an airline I'm dying to fly, though I really do want to visit Morocco.
I had kind of assumed that Royal Air Maroc didn't have any useful airline partners, though after some further digging I was surprised to find two semi-useful airline partners they have -- Etihad Guest and Iberia Plus. So while it will no doubt be easier to redeem miles for travel on Royal Air Maroc if/when they join the Star Alliance, in the meantime there are two useful airlines through which you can book Royal Air Maroc:
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We took an Uber to the airport at 6AM, and thanks to virtually non-existent traffic made it to Tom Bradley International by 6:25AM, plenty early for our 8:55AM flight to New York.
I was especially excited about this flight, because I don't think there's a more intriguing way to fly between Los Angeles and New York than on Qantas' 747 tag flight.
TBIT is dead this early in the morning, given that the first "rush hour" in the terminal is around noon.
Qantas check-in is located in the B Pier, and they just have two small queues set up for this flight. That's because a vast majority of passengers on this sector are connecting same day from Australia, so only a couple of dozen passengers are checking in at this counter, really.
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Skift reported yesterday on the renewal of the Delta-American Express co-brand arrangement that’s worth $2 billion a year to Delta. The renewal is for 6 years. The last renewal was in 2008. American Express has also renewed their Starwood relationship. While Skift suggests the renewal “amounts to a 15 percent improvement in terms for Delta” […]
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In late October of last year we found out the future of American AAdvantage and US Airways Dividend Miles. The news was overwhelmingly positive, given all the negative changes we've seen from other airlines lately.
Perhaps the most interesting detail to members is that US Airways Dividend Miles will be merged into American AAdvantage sometime in the second quarter of 2015. While we don't have an exact date yet, this is when status between the two airlines will be fully reciprocal, when mileage totals will be combined, etc.
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With that in mind, I've received a ton of questions as to what happens to US Airways Dividend Miles awards when the program ceases to exist.
It was just last year when US Airways transitioned from Star Alliance to oneworld, and that presented a challenge for award tickets. Basically, previously issued Star Alliance award tickets couldn't be changed to include oneworld segments. Instead you had to redeposit them entirely and rebook if you wanted any segments on oneworld.
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News and notes from around the interweb: Double Virgin America points through March 31. Registration required. Some commenters are reporting being told that Chase points transfers to Korean will return on January 25. I reached out again to Chase and got simply, “We anticipate the functionality returning soon.” Supreme Court rules air marshall didn’t violate […]
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La Compagnie is the French airline which launched flights around the middle of last year, offering all business class flights between Newark and Paris. Their launch was a bit hectic to say the least, though I also give them credit for staying true to their mission up until this point -- they're truly offering a (not so great) business class product basically at economy class prices.
So while my review of them wasn't stellar in comparison to other business class products, I think they add a hell of a lot of value to the market. For the fares they're charging, there's simply no other airline that can compete with them. For example, right now they're offering sub-$1,400 roundtrip business class fares between Newark and Paris.
Originally I gave them a few months at most, though I wasn't factoring in fuel prices. It goes without saying that they can survive as long as the economy is doing well and fuel prices are where they are (when either of those factors change, though...).
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