News and notes from around the interweb:
- Qatar Airways QSuites and ANA’s The Room are generally considered to vie for being the world’s best business class products. Here’s one take on which is better though I’d say it depends on what you value, a family sitting together may prefer QSuites while on meals I happen to really enjoy Japanese food.
- The American Airlines Chicago O’Hare Flagship lounge re-opens April 21.
- State Dept lets federal employees renew their passports online ahead of public launch. (HT: Z.D.) I actually wrote about this last year, available to ‘friends and family’ of government employees too.
- Ukrainian refugee family-of-four who fled war-torn Kyiv to Poland are turned away from Ryanair flight to UK because they couldn’t print out their boarding pass in advance
- JetBlue passengers plead with crew to let them off the plane after several aborted landings due to bad weather and then being diverted to Newark
- Vanguard is working with Amex to cobrand an investment advisory practice: Invest for AmEx by Vanguard. It will be interesting to see what value add there’ll be that makes it worth investing with Vanguard but with higher fees. I prefer to follow three simple principles. (HT: crucker)
..one financial-planning phone call in their first year of enrollment, and those with at least $100,000 in advised assets get unlimited access to Vanguard advisory services…The new program has an investment minimum of $10,000 and an annual gross advisory fee of 0.5%, with fees waived for the first 90 days for new members.
Ryanair being Ryanair…..
Uh, Gary, the article says it’s a family of 3…..
@Gary – Are they trying to compete a little with the mid-fee stuff like Betterment?
@JorgeGeorge Paez – not sure I followed, i actually copied/pasted the headline from the article
Gary, I read the article. Mom, Father and child. I guess the article had the headline wrong? I was in a rush, didn’t absorb the headline but the article repeatedly mentioned a family unit of 3. Infuriating behavior by Ryanair. The whole problem stemmed from their system continually crashing so they couldn’t print their boarding passes. I know you are incredibly busy, but I think your headline should have said: Ryanair red tape screws family leaving war zone.
Gary, went back and read the article again. The Daily Mail messed up, their headline is wrong: it is a family of 3. I apologize if I pinged your honor. Your blog is must reading for me everyday!
Now I am angry at Ryanair all over again! What their employees did violates all human decency. Quite literally, they suck!
Remind me who exactly “owns” Vanguard again? Who their shareholders are? Which governments do they work with? Why our Federal Reserve literally borrows money from BlackRock? Why our Federal Reserve uses software from BlackRock? Never mind. Can’t ask these questions.
@Gary the vanguard/amex partnership allows you to earn points on your investments, topping out at 50k points/year once you hit $500k in invested assets. valuing at 1.5c/point, that’s a $750 bonus in exchange for a $500 annual investment advisory fee. However, the math stops getting compelling once you pass 500k.