There's no arguing that American's single strongest international market is Latin America. While American is doing their best to catch up with the other legacies in Asia and Europe, they have a clear advantage in Latin America.
Heck, they fly to 10 destinations in Brazil. If I'm being perfectly honest, I can't even name 10 cities in Brazil.
While American seems to be able to make just about any route to Latin America work, I was a bit surprised when they announced they would launch new flights to Viracopos, Brazil, as of December 2014.
This included daily service between Miami and Viracopos, as well as 3x weekly service between New York and Viracopos. That Airport is about 50 miles from the Sao Paulo Airport, though admittedly with traffic there's quite a bit of distance between the two airports.
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There are countless Paul Bunyan figure's dotting the American landscape from the heyday of Route 66, but there are none quite like the smiling giant of Portland, Oregon which was custom built as a monument to Oregon's statehood.
Built in 1959, the statue deviates from the standard "muffler men" of the era which were generally molded fiberglass figures of the same type. The Bunyan that was erected in the Portland neighborhood of Kenton was a custom created figure made of concrete surrounding a metal frame. The 31-foot tall lumberman was created to mark the 100-year anniversary of Oregon's statehood as part of the Centennial Exposition and International Trade Fair. He holds a tall axe and is painted with a goofy grin plastered across his face. A far more permanent calling than any of the usual advertising giants that were created along Route 66.
This permanence shows through today as the figure continues to stand proudly on its street corner home. The figure has been refurbished a number of times over the years and still looks as bright and ready to live out some myths as it did in its conception. And judging by his slightly ridiculous expression, he is idiotically happy to do so.
IdeaWorks, best known for its fatally flawed annual award availability ‘study’, has a new report (.pdf) on non-travel rewards offered by loyalty programs. (HT: Today in the Sky) The study is sponsored by (and contains a full page ad for) Switchfly, a company that sells merchandise, experiential, and other non-travel rewards platforms to these programs. […]
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I’m a 33-year-old freelance journalist from Finland. I’ve been actively roaming the globe for almost 15 years, and have visited around 70 countries (so far). Currently, I’m spending the winter on the French island of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean which suits me quite well. I have a bad beach addiction: over the past decade I’ve spent months every year on tropical beaches around the world. You could say I’m perpetually in search of the perfect beach. I’m also a New Yorker now (and surprisingly to many, New York actually has some pretty nice beaches, too!).
American has Flagship Lounges at select airports (including Chicago, London, Los Angeles, and New York), which are their international first class lounges. However, oneworld allows their Emerald members to use the Flagship Lounges, so they tend to get crowded.
Keep in mind that on most international American flights you’ll have a lot more Executive Platinum members than first class passengers (American doesn't even offer a first class product on much of their longhaul fleet)..
Interestingly American doesn’t have a Flagship Lounge in Dallas. It’s their biggest hub, so on one hand you’d think they would have one. But they don’t. And I’d guess the reason is because of how many Executive Platinum members there are.
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Despite his legacy of loud boozing and masculine myth-making the actual grave of famed author Ernest Hemingway is a flat, unadorned slab. However that has not stopped his fans from leaving booze and flowers to this day.
Hemingway was known for his passionate living, full of drinking, hunting, womanizing, and of course, writing. When he committed suicide in 1961, following in the tragic footsteps of his brother, sister, and father, all of whom also took their own lives, one might have expected his remains to return to his beloved cats in Key West, but instead they were simply lain to rest in a small Ketchum, Idaho plot.
In his final days, Hemingway was extremely ill and increasingly paranoid, rarely leaving his home near the woods of Ketchum. After his death, it seemed in line with his stoic persona that he be buried with little fanfare. His headstone is a long rectangle set into the grass bearing simply his name and the dates of his life.
Hemingway's fame is even greater today than it was during his life, bolstered by his blustery legend. Fans still make pilgrimage to his grave leaving behind coins, flowers, and half-drunk bottles of alcohol as tribute. There is no epitaph on the stone, but there are few people who would not already know of his enduring legacy.
