Monthly Archives for January 2021.
Here’s what federal aviation regulations tell us about a pilot who doesn’t go back into the cockpit right away after taking a bathroom break – deciding to flirt with a flight attendant in the galley instead.
Like Julie Delpey’s character in Before Sunrise Salma Saade and her boyfriend Finlay McAfee were together in Europe and Finlay traveled to see her – and spent a night wandering around a major European city. Only he did it in Paris, alone. And they met on Tinder, not on a train. But bear with me for the story.
The former head of International Space Station for NASA and others are building a hotel in space. They have NASA’s buy-in, and money, to do it.
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.
When you’re in an aisle seat you direct your own destiny. You get up to use the lavatory whenever you wish and don’t need to worry about waiting on other passengers to gather their belongings to let you out, or your seatmates falling asleep and needing to be woken to let you out. I find window seats claustrophobic.
It turns out that the preference for an aisle seat over a window seat also means you’re a better customer of an airline’s loyalty program, based on data.
Several months ago I wrote that as countries started requiring negative Covid-19 tests in order to travel people would start faking negative test results. And what we’re learning from people who are actually faking their tests is that it isn’t fear of a positive result that is causing them to create the fakes.
A TSA screener at LAX has been convicted after requiring a female passenger to show him her breasts, and inspecting down her pants.
In Denver TSA screeners were flagging attractive passengers to ‘alarm’ so that colleagues could pat down their genitals. Think this is unusual? It’s not.
Las Vegas police are sharing details of a hotel worker, hoping they’ll get additional information from other guests who may have been victimized by the man.
According to reports the 20 year old would steal guest property and demand nude photos from them in exchange for having their belongings returned. He also is accused of stealing female guest underwear and leaving a note with his phone number ‘call me to get your underwear back.’
Two days after the protests and riot at the U.S. Capitol, John Lolos had boarded a Delta flight at Washington National airport. The plane was taxiing out, but the pilot decided to return to the gate because he was reportedly yelling “Trump 2020!” Airport police met the aircraft at the gate.
The man was rebooked by Delta, but police later arrested them because something of something they saw on Instagram: the man’s shirt.
American Airlines told employees they won’t plan to require them to get vaccinated although they’ll encourage them to do so.
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby, on the other hand, wants to require it for his employees and thinks others should follow his lead.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
