News and notes from around the interweb:

• There’s a travel agency for stuffed animals

• Can loyalty programs save public transit?

• How India’s government plans to bail out United’s Star Alliance partner Air India while United protests government subsidies (and, of course, takes its own).

• IHG is ending its fuel rewards partnership

• British Airways and American want to include Aer Lingus in their transatlantic joint venture without Aer Lingus joining oneworld at this point. It seems like they should become a oneworld connect member but it seems wise to apply for anti-trust immunity while they aren’t a partner at all, since that lets them claim unique consumer benefits of adding them (which would largely already exist if they were a oneworld connect or full oneworld member).

  

• Las Vegas Centurion lounge will close for a period of time next month.

  @milestomemories @garyleff @OneMileataTime Not sure I’ve seen this on Boarding or FlyerTalk. Bartender says no set dates but will occur after CES. pic.twitter.com/QXsoxgGqCg

  — djjohnpayne (@djjohnpayne) December 22, 2018

• Reader passes along a targeted double miles promotion from American AAdvantage, double miles on all flights through March 31 — the interesting thing is there’s a minimum spend requirement for double miles to kick in. In his case it’s $800, he’s a lifetime Platinum that left American for Alaska a couple of years ago.