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Sep 15 2017

Any time American Airlines makes international business class saver award space available that’s notable, since it’s both rare and short-lived when it does occur.

From February 27 through June 24 there’s good business class award space available on American’s New York JFK – Rio de Janeiro service in both directions. Miami – Sao Paulo also has good space for 2 passengers in business class through March and April, becomes Thursdays only in May, and has decent availability again for June.

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Sep 15 2017

A reportedly drunk man was singing loudly on a Ryanair flight from Girona to London Luton.

A flight attendant told him that if he didn’t quiet down she’d call the police. The flight landed at 11 p.m. and indeed police were called.

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Sep 15 2017

If you don’t spend more than you otherwise would and pay off your bill in full on time each month credit cards are better than debit cards, cash and other methods of payment.

If you don’t meet either of those conditions then tools that free you wind up used irresponsibly so for many it’s wise to adopt forms of payment which are binding constraints on the ability to get into financial trouble.

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Sep 14 2017

A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.

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Sep 14 2017

The hurricane was bad enough. The stories of the people — from the looters, to those banding together to survive — will soon become a movie of the week.

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Sep 14 2017

Thirty nine year old Darren Stanway and his new spouse 34 year old Nadia reportedly took a 17 mile taxi ride to Manchester airport in the UK during which they consumed 3 bottles of wine.

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Sep 14 2017

With airberlin disappearing faster than a pack of smokes at an AA meeting, oneworld partner Finnair is swooping in to pick up their customers. And while they’re at it they’re looking for Star Alliance member Lufthansa’s customers as well.

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Sep 14 2017

Oh my goodness United. Sure the people who assist passengers in wheelchairs are contract workers but you bumped the woman from a flight, you see she’s in a wheel chair, and no one bothers to help her. Even when she’s sitting at the gate for 12 hours because she cannot move herself. Of course this happened at Newark.

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Sep 14 2017

In theory a revenue-based program shouldn’t need to devalue. More expensive tickets automatically cost more points. As ticket prices rise so do award prices. And the scarcest seats already cost more in Southwest’s system not just because of their higher cash price but because the value per point redeeming for those points is reduced. Yet they’ve devalued multiple times anyway.

Could we be seeing an increase in the value of points?

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Sep 13 2017

Marriott had a boat evacuate guests from the Frenchman’s Reef & Morning Star Marriott Beach Resort on St. Thomas after Irma had passed and in advance of Hurricane Jose. By all accounts they did a great job for their guests.

Reportedly though the US Coast Guard told other American tourists looking to get off the island to hitch a ride on Marriott’s boat charter. They knew there were plenty of extra seats.

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