Monthly Archives for January 2024.
A young woman flying cross country found herself in the gate area noticing a demanding passenger. This older woman, with a six or seven year old son, was “demanding things from the airport staff.”
Once the plane boarded this passenger went to her middle seat, only to find that the mother and son showed up at her row. They were assigned the window and aisle seats and she was between them.
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The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which manages both Reagan National airport and Washington Dulles is a disaster and that extends to their public statements about anti-Israel and pro-Hamas protestors blocking access to National airport calling their actions “exercising first amendment rights” in the roadway.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) is going after United Airlines online after a United agent refused to allow Congressman Crenshaw’s wife and her mother travel with their dog. The agent reportedly grabbed at the dog, even after his wife agreed to simply fly Southwest instead. Crenshaw says that the agent wanted to photograph the dog as part of getting them banned from the airline. His wife is taking their child away from the incident and the agent grabs at the dog.
Saturday Night Live has produced a commercial for Alaska Airlines in the aftermath of the Boeing 737 MAX 9 whose door plug separated from the aircraft fuselage during flight.
As long as you’re in the first half of boarding you’re going to be fine and you really don’t want to be on board longer than that anyway so following this advice to board with group one doesn’t actually make you better off. You just stay on the plane longer.
Numerous 737 MAX 9s have been inspected, and some others have had loose door plugs. There are four bolts that are supposed to hold in onto the frame. But we don’t know whether these were installed incorrectly or whether they actually were installed correctly and loosen over time as the plane flies. And the answer to this question matters a lot.
On Sunday, an American Airlines passenger from Phoenix to Austin was removed from the aircraft for passing gas – and talking about it with other passengers in the cabin.
Hyatt’s Eliza Jane hotel in New Orleans has just started adding a 1.85% surcharge when you pay your bill by credit card. That’s basically an undisclosed 1.85% surcharge on all hotel guests. World of Hyatt members are billed an extra fee for paying with their Hyatt Visa from Chase, even.
The Chase Sapphire Lounge at New York LaGuardia airport only just opened on Tuesday. Usually it takes awhile for new lounges to get crowded because word of mouth has to spread that the lounge even exists. This one is 22,000 square feet – twice the size of the nearby American Express Centurion lounge. And the existence of both in the same terminal should help spread out the crowding.
And yet there’s already queueing to get into this new Chase lounge!
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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 »
