News and notes from around the interweb:
- Explaining a bit about the accounting of frequent flyer programs
- 7 million Chinese banned from flying or riding trains because they haven’t paid their debts. Imagine if US bankruptcy law included a travel ban.
- British Airways CEO Alex Cruz responds to blogger God Save the Points
- Does the Waldorf=Astoria New York renovation include wiring the hotel to monitor everyone inside including in the bathrooms? These are rumors, I have to think the rumors are meant to undermine the hotel’s business, and at this point already no government official is going to stay at the Chinese-owned hotel.
- Washington Dulles ‘Mobile Lounges’ Have Been Involved in Many ‘Incidents’ Over the Years. (Two passengers were hurt in a crash back in October.)
- A British Airways Airbus A318 was stranded in Shannon, Ireland because it didn’t have maps to continue to New York and had too much fuel to return to London City.
- Through February 28 Star Alliance frequent flyer program LifeMiles is again bonusing the purchase of miles — up to a 125% bonus or 1.47 cents apiece.
If redeeming miles on AA is so good for the airline and its profits, why do they make it so damn hard?
There is more going on here.