News and notes from around the interweb:
- It’s a marketing crime that nobody is offering elite status in exchange for mailing in cut up Delta Amex cards, but who would have the nerve required for that stunt? (HT: S.G.)
If you have a premium co-brand card you’re instantly a desirable customer. And someone switching away from a premium co-brand, rather than just acquiring a new one and splitting charges, is even more desirable. Plus the trolling value.
@Delta @AmericanExpress #skymiles @thepointsguy #MillionMiler #betrayal pic.twitter.com/FyCHhGttXE
— James Sample (@jamesjsample) September 16, 2023
- Crypto scammer Tom Brady blamed for SkyMiles changes. He deflated the value of the SkyMiles program and its co-brand Reserve card. (HT: S.G.)
- Labor saving to get customers to pick up their own trash.
One of the United Clubs at IAH has a robot that goes around and you can put your garbage in the bins pic.twitter.com/RJBh4dHhxg
— iflyplaces (@iflyplaces) September 17, 2023
- The man caught on video having sex in the lavatory of an easyJet flight to Ibiza on his 23rd birthday, with a woman he’d just met at the airport, was banned from the airline and didn’t even get her number. They met during boarding and, he says, the lavatory thing was her idea. He says that he was drunk.
- Wizz Air ‘pushing sleep-deprived pilots to fly’: Ex-captains accuse low-cost airline of putting profits before safety Daily Mail but remember the airline’s President said the quiet part out loud that pilots should just fly when they are fatigued (“we are all fatigued but sometimes it is required to take the extra mile”).
- Seeing this more and more. Decline in quality at Delta is a challenge to the ability of SkyMiles to reward customers less while demanding more.
@delta flight from ATL to BCN and back. Delta One seats, both flights I had to climb over sleeping strangers, screens and/or headphones don’t work, wifi not available, on return flight maintenance had to jury-rig the panel to keep it from falling. Not ok for the $$ charged. pic.twitter.com/tyU3HL2YUV
— Jillian Hall (@Jillian44306019) September 17, 2023
- They did this when Southwest Airlines stranded passengers over the holidays, too. (HT: @TravelZork)
Larry Flynt's Hustler Club is offering free lap dances to MGM Resorts guests affected by the ongoing cyberattack. pic.twitter.com/Swb8P7ZJ2U
— Las Vegas Locally 🌴 (@LasVegasLocally) September 16, 2023
Why was the easyjet PAX banned? He did nothing wrong. The lavatory is private. It’s the FA who should be banned for exposing PRIVATE activity.
@gary
Can you clarify why you keep referring to Brady as a Crypto scammer? I get that he was in the mix along with a lot of other big celebrities, but is there evidence/proof that he was “in on it” in terms of knowing it was a scam and playing along?
I’m not here to argue, just trying to educate myself and posing the question to someone I respect vs. trying to slog through the bowels of the internet.
I actually like the robot. I’m a firm believer in throwing away my own trash and a robot coming by and collecting it? Works for me. It’s not likely taking away anyone’s job; the lounge staff can focus on things like making sure there’s enough food out and the like instead of collecting trash. I don’t have to get up just to throw something away.
Win-win.
@Jeff – Gary is both biased and going for clicks. Brady was a paid spokesperson like others, nothing more or less, and he lost a lot in the process. No need to defame the man Gary!!
@Jeff – Brady wasn’t just a paid endorser, he was an owner of the business. And he convinced a lot of people to trust their money to the site, without adequate due diligence or regard for his own reputation.
@ Gary — Maybe the Freddies can add an award for “Worst Airline Elite Program” award…for Delta. Perhaps a Lifetime Achievement Award since they are so good at screwing over customers perpetually?
Can’t teach morality it seems.
Saw a robot cleaner in the UA ORD F area lounge around 4 weeks ago.
It didn’t have arms or someone could be forgiven for calling it Rosie (from the Jetsons).
@Jeff just to provide sourcing:
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ftx-tom-brady–gisele-bundchen-announce-long-term-partnership-301321814.html
Yes, Tom Brady is part of the problem.
Who ISN”T fatigued these days?!?! The pilots need to grow a pair and either agree to work the ALREADY-SAFE schedule, or take a job at McDonalds with flexible hours for flakey people. If you’re too tired to fly after 8 hours of sleep, then it’s a medical issue and we don’t want you as a pilot.
Maybe Gary or a friend lost money betting against Brady. This seems to be one of his “dog with a bone” things. “Owners” are no more than shareholders, and also lose out if the officers are crooks, just like the shareholders of Lucent lost tons of money because the people running the business were fudging the numbers. I remember, being one of those owners and being in no way in on the scam. And no one went to jail. So why are people buying, of all things, crypto, based on celebrity endorsements?