News and Notes from Around the Interweb:

• Man falls asleep on a United Express flight, and gets left behind on the aircraft. It’s locked, he can’t get off. Not the first time this has happened, either.
  
• Couchsurfing is really about hookups. But you still don’t earn frequent guest points, but then I suppose it doesn’t involve much loyalty!
  
• Rocketmiles is offering 2014 bonus miles for a stay that includes New Year’s Eve (on top of regular miles earned for hotel bookings).
  
• The one thing the American Airlines-US Airways merger does have is labor’s blessing. Not that peace will last, but many folks get raises. Hopefully everyone works constructively to make the combination, expected to close tomorrow, as smooth as possible (which won’t actually be smooth, at least for a couple of weeks in early 2015).

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