News and notes from around the interweb:
- Use sticky notes to make your passport last longer
- Earn 5000 bonus Membership Rewards Points using Amex Express Checkout
- While Citi virtue signals on guns, Wells Fargo says “I do not believe that the American public wants banks to decide which legal products consumers can and cannot buy.”
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- After running out of it a week ago in the Concorde Room, TravelZork tells me that Laurent Perrier Grand Siecle is now appearing in the London Heathrow Terminal 3 and London Gatwick Galleries First lounges. oneworld emeralds flying American out of terminal 3 should definitely be hitting up the BA lounge rather than American’s own lounge there..
Grand Siecle is usually only served on board in First and in the Concorde Room at Heathrow T5. It is an excellent champagne which is a blend of the best grapes from the best parcels of land from three exceptional vintage years. Unfortunately, they do not seem to have it in Galleries First at T5 however they do have Tattinger which I am fond of and much prefer to Henriot. Apparently due to the Henriot shortage I mentioned last week, Tattinger and LPGS will replace them for the time being.
- I thought this was interesting, joint American Airlines-China Southern advertising in Chinese in Southern California.
It seems to me that @AmericanAir and @CSAIRGlobal are starting some joint advertising in San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles. Could this be leading to something else? pic.twitter.com/AgS6df6TgH
— Brandon rabbitt (@Brabbworld) April 8, 2018
That’s rich coming from Wells. Maybe they should stick to NOT illegally opening for customers before they should decide the legal actions of others.
In re: Brandon’s tweet, and his question about American and China Southern, “Could this be leading to something else?” . . . I have to admit my first reaction was that the Chinese were biting American.
I don’t bank with Wells, nor think they’re necessarily a pinnacle of morality lol but that’s a perfectly fine statement to make. And one I wish I heard more often.
I learned my lesson when I reentered the US years ago and the official stamped my passport across the fold – essentially using two pages. Now I use the opposite sticky note approach. I found where I wanted the stamp to go and put one of those small “sign here” type post-its in the passport and made sure it hung over the edge. Then I would point it out when I handed over the passport. Works every time and I get the most utilization out of each page.
Nice tip! Thankfully, I didn’t run out of pages on my most recently expired Passport after Yogyakarta, Indonesia pasted a full page Visa On Arrival to a blank page in 2010. At least they stamped both arrival and departure on the Visa, so net loss was about 1/2 a page. On a trip to Bali a couple of years later, the Visa on Arrival page was much smaller (because it was Bali or they changed size everywhere, who knows?), but it was pasted smack dab in the middle of a random, mid-passport, empty Passport page, and the entry/exit stamps were around it.
Are they serving this in the T5 first lounge, it was not there last week?
Indonesian visa on entry got cut in half, for all ports of entry. It’s free now for American citizens, though they are happy to sell you a business visa if you want to pay.
Speaking of Muslim countries, I find with every entry into Malaysia, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and sometimes to Indonesia, I find that the immigration officer goes through every page in my passport, possibly looking for an Israeli entry stamp? If I had sticky notes across multiple pages, I’m sure it would look suspicious and slow the whole process down. Better to do a “Stamp here” sticker, as Jim does- will try that now that I am down to only a few blank pages (and now you cannot get extension pages added)…