Monthly Archives for May 2023.
A man booked a room with someone else’s Marriott Bonvoy points. The member received the confirmation email from Marriott, contacted the police, and that man was arrested on the spot in Naples, Florida!
In the wee hours of Monday morning, a passenger who had boarded a redeye United Airlines flight in San Francisco bound for Houston became enraged when they found a passenger sitting in the seat they thought should have been theirs. They were supposed to be in first class but demanded to sit in coach.
Two comedians wrapped up performing in Las Vegas and were headed to Dallas on American Airlines. They report being forced to change their clothes at the gate because staff claimed what they were wearing was too revealing. They were mortified, they say, that they were stuck changing in front of everyone. And what they changed into – which the airline accepting – was even more revealing!
A Delta Air Lines passenger reclined her seat, and the woman behind her – she says – began pushing her seat back throughout the rest of the flight. In response, she didn’t ask for help from a flight attendant. Instead she… began yelling at the woman behind her. And another passenger caught it on video.
The passengers behind the woman denied pushing her seat and that just drove the her to the brink, publicly defending her right to recline. It was the end of the flight though, so the battle went on silently until she just couldn’t take it anymore.
Two women tussled and brawled before a Spirit Airlines flights with one eventually being pinned by the other, larger passenger. Blows were traded, kicks were unleashed, and they tumbled until they just couldn’t tumble anymore.
It looks to me like this is the gate area for a Spirit Airlines flight from Atlanta to Miami. This looks like the Atlanta airport, and Spirit does use gate D2 there. Atlanta to Miami on Spirit almost guarantees this result.
Days after the CDC updated its Covid-19 vaccination requirement for visitors traveling to the U.S. by air, the Biden administration announced that its vaccine requirements – including for airline passengers – will end at the ‘end of the day’ on May 11.
Assigned personal ambassadors will be reaching out to Ambassador members in June, as in the past assigned based on their language speaking preference and home time zone. Many former Ambassadors have returned, apparently, and Marriott will accept requests now to Ambassador Services to be matched the person previously assigned.
American Airlines pilots have voted to authorize a strike. This came after the airline’s CEO announced that they’re ready to pay pilots up to $590,000 per year, essentially matching Delta’s new pay rates and improving on scheduling and other quality of life issues.
While the pilot union would like you to believe this is more than it is, it’s effectively business as usual.
If you aren’t earning frequent flyer miles from your savings account, you probably should be. At least you should open an account – which has no annual fees or minimum balances – so that you have the option to earn miles when you want to. It’s a great way of potentially earning a lot of miles, and one of the very few ways to do that without actually spending money.
The Bask Bank Mileage Savings Account rewards you with frequent flyer miles instead of interest. You earn 2 American Airlines AAdvantage® miles for every $1 saved annually.
Marriott is going to make a major shift this month in how it displays prices on its website, and to its English language mobile app. The first and most prominent price for a hotel that Marriott displays will be the price inclusive of resort or destination fees so when you search the Marriott website you won’t be duped into thinking a hotel is cheaper than it is, only to see disclosure of a higher price at check-out.
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 »
