News and notes from around the interweb:
- New Miles & More Mileage Bargains 55,000 miles roundtrip for business class between the U.S. and Athens, Barcelona and Bilbao.
- American Airlines bans automated re-pricing of tickets through their systems. You can still call up when the price of your itinerary drops to get a voucher for the difference. It’s just against their rules now to use automated systems for this purpose.
- Up to 20% off Hyatt stays booked by May 23 for travel May 25 – September 10, 2023. Promo code LOCKITIN is a 15% off rate, while the ‘member rate’ is expanded to ‘up to’ 20% off in some cases with European hotels at this rate along with those in Africa and the Middle East including breakfast.
- American Airlines forced woman to check her sewing machine – then butchered it. But the whole idea of bringing a sewing machine with you when you travel is so that you can sew on the plane!
Mira que he visto cosas raras en un avión. Pero sacar tu máquina del equipaje de mano y coserte unas cortinas es otro nivel😂😂😂#ConMisManitasYMiTricotosa pic.twitter.com/lWcQ260dmX
— Glo✈️ (@glointhesky) June 17, 2021
- 15% bonus transferring American Express Membership Rewards to Avianca LifeMiles through end of May
- Class action lawsuit filed against American Airlines by call center workers who were forced to do ‘pre-work’ booting up their computer and logging into their systems before they start to be paid. How much ‘getting ready to work’ is part of the job and should be paid is a complex legal question. Even whether going through security on an employer’s premises is ‘part of the job’ has been litigated.
- United may be waiting for systematic cabin refurbishments, but I’m seeing a lot of stuff like this lately…
@united shame!!!! pic.twitter.com/bEIIPGYBfI
— garima (@garima16514265) May 1, 2023
OMAAT lost any respect it had from me a long time ago…..
Anyway, AA seems to contribute more than necessary to weird tabloid stories. A person of determination with a personal sewing machine totalled, oh dear! I’m hesitant to return to AA, despite my OW Gold status.
Oops. Wrong blog. I meant the one by M. K.
Actually both blogs.
Airline employees snatching bags should be prosecuted for theft.
It’s a shame that they broke it, but the passenger was taking up a lot of space, sewing machines are not small enough for a single airplane seat. Imagine taking your seat and your neighbor whips out a full size sewing machine and starts going to town on it!! It is also a safety issue, I’m sure. And some machines are very loud. Passengers are just doing whatever they feel like now- taking a sponge bath, clipping toenails, sewing- with no consideration for the rest of the plane. I don’t blame them for removing the machine, but they should pay for what they broke. If the machine was broken because the passenger was being grabby or belligerent, it is their own fault.
I think everyone is forgetting the main issue… safety. What if the plane experienced trouble & you had a kamikaze swing machine bouncing around the cabin? She was wrong to not check it in the 1st place and, I’m sure the machine was replaced.
Shame on the passenger. I’m sick of people lawlessness. Read a book.. or take a nap. Stop showing your lack of brain and common sense.
Did anyone read the story? It fit the dimensions of a carry-on but the gate agent took it anyway and checked it. Not surprisingly, it was damaged while being treated like regular luggage. It cost almost $1k to repair.
Shame on the people that are bashing the lady who got her sewing machine taken the airline should be highly ashamed of themselves but as we all know they don’t care and the people who are saying it’s a safety issue a pin, unopened soft drink can or basically any object so can’t really claim safety issue the people that comment like that sound like you work for American airlines just pushing the airlines mistakes onto the customer extremely shameful