A year ago the DEA was ordered to stop seizing passengers’ cash at airports without evidence or charges. But cash seizures never stopped—they’ve just shifted hands. Homeland Security agents are using drug-sniffing dogs to target travelers, confiscating large sums even when no drugs are found and no charges are filed. Here’s what’s happening, and how they’re getting away with it.
A social media pile-on claims Alaska Airlines is “obstructing justice” because a poster tells employees not to hand passenger data to law enforcement on demand. In reality, it instructs staff to call a supervisor and insist on proper legal process — exactly what privacy laws, corporate policy, and rule of law require.
December 2025 brings a fresh round of best-ever credit card offers, with several new bonuses added and others already gone. Here’s the up-to-date list of the most lucrative deals still available.
Video from a Spirit Airlines flight from Nashville to Las Vegas shows a male passenger punching a flight attendant in the face in the aisle, with the cabin turning into a brief brawl until a crewmember steps in and shuts it down. Here is what we know about the incident, what likely happened next, and how this fits into the broader problem of assaults on flight attendants.
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Hours of delays at Newark turned one United flight into a pressure cooker. A woman decided she was “allowed to stand up” during taxi, unloaded on the crew with profanity and slurs, and found out what really happens when you defy flight attendants: the pilots take you back to the gate.
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An urgent software problem with Airbus A320 flight computers forced thousands of jets worldwide into maintenance this weekend, but most airlines handled the fix with barely a ripple in their operations. JetBlue, by contrast, has been cancelling a huge chunk of its schedule while it scrambles to source replacement computers and catch up.
A housekeeping training video filmed at a Marriott-branded hotel shows one rag and one pair of gloves used for everything: the toilet, bathroom counter, coffee maker and more. This is how rooms are cleaned when management is watching.
American Airlines has been serving a mass-produced 40-cent bundt cake as its domestic first class dessert for nearly four years, a perfect symbol of the carrier’s “never spend a dollar we don’t have to” era. If they’re serious about a premium pivot, it’s time to retire the cheap cake and invest in a dessert that actually matches the fares they want to charge.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
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 »
