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Monthly Archives for February 2022.

Win Cash Prizes on ‘The Amazing Race for Regular People’

by Gary Leff

amazing race comp map
Feb 24 2022

After 3 year hiatus, the Competitours mystery European team travel competition is back.

Featuring 10 teams of two players zigzagging on a secret routing across the nooks and crannies
of Western Europe, participants earn points by accomplishing a series of daily challenges that pushes them gently out of their comfort zone. The top three teams split a cash pool. In 2019, 70% of the teams were repeat players – that’s how much people love it. Each year is a totally new itinerary.

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Lifting All Pandemic Restrictions Makes Sense In Most Places, That’s Not “Let ‘Er Rip”

by Gary Leff

Feb 24 2022

Iceland has become the latest of many countries to remove pandemic-era restrictions. One Mile at a Time says they’re “encourag[ing] people to get infected.”

I don’t think that’s right, and lifting restrictions isn’t a “let ‘er rip” strategy as some have argued, either. It’s simply that the condition that made restrictions make sense early in the pandemic are no longer in effect today.

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Delta CEO’s Dangerous Case Against The Rule Of Law, For More Subsidies

by Gary Leff

Feb 24 2022

Delta CEO Ed Bastian as an op-ed in the Washington Post advocating for a federal No Fly List for ill-behaved passengers. What’s striking about the piece is how dismissive it seems to civil liberties concerns and the rule of law, and how little self-awareness there is over steps Delta itself has failed to take to address the problems their crew face in the air. The No Fly List probably won’t make much difference in any case.

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Real Meals Have Returned To American Airlines Medium-Haul Domestic Flights

by Gary Leff

Feb 23 2022

Real meals are back in American Airlines first class which is to say we no longer suffer from shrink-wrapped turkey or pimiento cheese sandwiches.

Earlier in the month hot meals returned to first class on flights of 1500 miles or longer. The roll out went surprisingly smoothly. And now meals – albeit a charcuterie plate or vegetarian sandwich on pretzel croissant at lunch – are returning to flights 900-1499 miles in distance. American is choosing to focus on the dessert.

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Your Chance To Pick The Best Loyalty Programs Of The Year

by Gary Leff

freddie awards
Feb 23 2022

This your chance to have your say on which frequent flyer programs are best.

There are awards where a panel of experts gets together to give out an award based on their own opinion. There are awards where companies pay sponsorship fees and keep winning their sponsored award. And then there’s the oldest and largest consumer-driven awards in airline, hotel and credit card loyalty: the Freddie Awards.

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American Airlines Flight Attendants Up In Arms After Snitch Rats Out Trainee For Dozing Inflight

by Gary Leff

Feb 22 2022

An American Airlines flight attendant new hire was caught snoozing (supposedly for a few moments) on a training flight while properly seated in a passenger seat. A working crewmember photographed the trainee and sent it in to management.

The new hire, a foreign-language speaker, was fired just a couple of days before graduation. And this has been highly controversial among American Airlines flight attendants who say it brief naps happen all the time.

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