News and notes from around the interweb:
- Air France KLM Flying Blue, a points transfer partner of Chase, American Express, Citibank and Capital One, got rid of their award charts. But it turns out you can make one, and Travel is Free did just that.
Copyright: radututa / 123RF Stock Photo - Rudi Giuliani with his pants down in the Emirates business class lounge fortunately no NSFW photos!
- Queer Eye star says he’s being profiled by TSA (HT: Reid F.)
- The plan for Alitalia now seems to be taking Italian government subsidies and parlaying those back into a revenue-sharing partnership with Delta, and making their frequent flyer program more like Delta’s.
Of course Delta thinks that subsidies are bad and unfair to competitors.
Copyright: jvdwolf / 123RF Stock Photo - The Onion: Delta Plane Jettisons Dozens Of Comfort Animals Midflight Following Policy Changes
- US border agents are copying passenger cell phone data failing to delete the data they way they’re supposed to
- Sidecar is suing Uber over how it smothered the former ridesharing competitor
I think everyone buried the lede on the Giuliani story…
The boarding pass shows he flew the infamous Emirates 5th Freedom JFK-Milan route that is the scourge of the US3! So much for playing for the home team Rudi…The Partnership for Fair and Open Skies will be calling you real soon…
And I thought seeing rats in the Vietnam Airlines lounge in Hanoi was the worst.