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Dec 31 2017

American Airlines is done painting planes — updating the old bare metal legacy American Airlines livery, and repainting US Airways planes to say American. MD80s, slated for retirement, haven’t been painted.

The livery was hugely controversial, many customers, critics and employees didn’t like it. With the merger they’d be repainting even more planes, adding 299 legacy US Airways aircraft to the project. At the time it was an open question whether they’d keep the new livery that American rolled out before the merger.

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Dec 31 2017

As you’re collecting points it’s easy to build up balances in several programs — substantial amounts of points, but maybe not enough for two or four people to fly roundtrip in business class to the other side of the world.

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Dec 31 2017

Marriott will give you 1000 points for answering a simple question on Twitter today.

I give you the exact tweet to send for free points.

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Dec 31 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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Dec 31 2017

Yesterday’s Delta Boeing 717 flight DL1943 from Detroit to Atlanta became a 22 minute trip from Detroit to Detroit when there was a bird discovered flying around the cockpit. And it wasn’t the first time a bird flew around the cockpit that day on that plane.

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Dec 31 2017

On Thursday visa free transit has been extended up to 144 hours for Beijing and broadened to include the Tianjin and Hebei regions.

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Dec 30 2017

On an Alaska Airlines flight from Portland to San Diego on Tuesday first class passenger Mike Timon was accused of “touching the flight attendant’s buttocks,” and has been banned from the airline.

He says he “he touched the woman ‘politely’ on her back — not her buttocks — to get her attention and order a drink.”

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Dec 30 2017

Shortly after writing a review of the new American Airlines Flagship First Dining in Los Angeles, Lucky at One Mile at a Time wrote a post with advice on tipping in the lounge.

You’re eating restaurant-quality food and receiving very personalized service. There’s a bartender and there are servers and most of the time in Flagship First Dining you’ll be the only one there being taken care of.

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Dec 30 2017

Southwest refused to take a family to Disney World yesterday after other passengers in the gate area suspected that their 6 year old daughter might have lice.

The family says she just had a very dry scalp from the cold Chicago winter. They’re being allowed to fly today suggesting Southwest doesn’t have an actual concern, and kicked them off purely out of fear.

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Dec 30 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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