About Gary Leff

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 »

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Flight Attendant Spilled Burning Coffee on Woman, Rushed Her Topless to the Lavatory

ronald mcdonald
Dec 16 2017

Now a Southwest Airlines passenger says that on Monday morning’s Southwest Airlines flight WN268 from Phoenix to Albuquerque “she was woken by scorching hot coffee soaking through her heavy sweater and onto her skin.”

The passenger reports that a flight attendant “yanked off her sweater and rushed her to the bathroom.” The woman “was completely exposed” and the “front half of the plane could see [her] completely exposed” while she cried.

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Flight Attendants Shamed American to Clean Dirty Air Vents on Planes

Dec 15 2017

I frequently refer to the legacy US Airways fleet as a ‘basket of deplorables’. We’re four years into the merger and they never added seat power or extra legroom seats to most of the planes. The old tattered first class seats on A321s have gotten new seat covers, but they didn’t even clean the seats themselves from the scuff marks and pen drawings that have accumulated over the years.

That’s just what we can see. Here’s something I hadn’t considered: the air vents on those planes.

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EVEN BETTER: Business Class from Various US Cities to Central/South America From $513 Roundtrip

aviancaplane
Dec 15 2017

It turns out that there are even better fares than the two I covered earlier in the day and from even more cities: roundtrip business class fares starting at $513 from Orlando, Chicago, Los Angeles or New York to Lima, Peru on Aeromexico, and $616 business class roundtrips to several cities on Star Alliance carrier Avianca: Panama City $616; Lima $644; Cartagena $650, and Quito $653.

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