Monthly Archives for October 2017.
A US diplomatic employee was detained in Turkey last week claiming links to US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen whom it claims was responsible for the July 2016 coup attempt against Turkish strongman President Erdoğan.
That set off a chain reaction that now has Turkey refusing to provide non-immigration visa services inside the U.S. and, it seems, refusing to provide e-Visas to US passport holders.
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.
Marriott will give you 1000 points for answering a simple question on Twitter. I give you the answer.
Star Alliance member ANA is selling travel between Denver and Bangkok for less than $284 roundtrip in January and February. There are good fares from other US cities as well.
“As of mid-2011, terrorist threat groups present in the Homeland are not known to be actively plotting against civil aviation targets or airports; instead, their focus is on fundraising, recruiting, and propagandizing,
…the government concedes that it would be difficult to have a repeat of 9/11 due to hardened cockpit doors and the willingness of passengers to challenge hijackers rather than assume a hijacking merely means a diversion to Cuba.”
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.
There’s been a rush of Chinese airlines squatting on routes to the U.S., because historically China has only allowed one of the country’s airlines to fly a given international route. That may change, but in the meantime we have service like Xiamen Airlines Los Angeles – Xiamen.
And as you can imagine these flights don’t sell out. So there are occasionally fantastic fares, to see China or to connect beyond China. In this case you can fly most any time between the US and Australia for $2600 roundtrip in business class. Or $1300 to China!
A jury just awarded what appears to be the biggest bed bug verdict in history.
According to their lawyer the case was especially egregious because “[t]hey were Hilton Honors members.”
I had a couple of American Airlines systemwide upgrades that I wasn’t going to use so I offered them to a friend.
For one of the upgrades American pulled a systemwide from my friend’s account rather than mine. The second upgrade cleared at the gate. And though it’s been a month the upgrade hasn’t been taken from my account.
Four years into the American Airlines – US Airways merger they are only now talking about aligning their fleet. For the most part US Airways narrowbody planes don’t have extra legroom seats at the front of the aircraft or even seat power. (First class also has less legroom and many still have decrepit seats.)
I flew a legacy US Airways plane this morning though and I boarded with a bit of excitement — a new interior.
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