Still need to make a last minute gift to someone? Go online and use your points to donate to almost any charity you could choose and let them your friends or family know you’ve done so for the holidays.
A passenger was arrested upon landing after KLM flight 605 from Amsterdam to San Francisco on Wednesday after fighting with his girlfriend, smoking onboard, and biting a flight attendant’s ear.
Our hero Jonah Cayle Snow got into a fight “after flight attendants asked the allegedly already heavily-inebriated Snow to put out his cigarette and refrain from drinking.”
With planes full and stress high during the holidays, passengers can go to extreme lengths to be terrible. But we don’t usually hear of such bad behavior on the ground as a man who had several drinks before going to the Memphis airport, needing to ‘go’, and deciding to do so “beside a woman who was sleeping inside the terminal.”
The routine and efficiency of frequent travel were captured beautifully — albeit harkening back to before pre-check and mobile boarding passes, and you don’t have to swipe offer your elite card when returning a car at Hertz — by George Clooney in Up in the Air:
But now it’s the holidays. I’m grateful after a year of travel not to be going anywhere this season, to put some time in at home. When I do travel on peak holidays I do my best not to travel the Wednesday before Thanksgiving or the Sunday after, or the last business day before Christmas. These are amateur days.
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Carrie Fisher had a cardiac episode onboard United flight 935 from London to Los Angeles today. She was reportedly “in a lot of distress on the flight.” Medical personnel met the flight and found her “unresponsive.”
An 8 year old girl named Eleanor lost her teddy bear — named Teddy — on Wednesday night after arriving in Detroit on a Southwest Airlines flight from Dallas.
At bedtime she realized her bear was gone. Her mother called Southwest and filed a lost and found report.
The woman sought the assistance of the crew who ordered him to return to his business class seat. He kept asking to speak to the woman he had assaulted, but was told in no uncertain terms that he couldn’t. Instead he wrote two notes to her apologizing, saying in one that he “was stupid.”
He was stupid on so many level.
This morning a United Airlines passenger scheduled to fly from Orlando to Chicago was denied boarding when airline personnel decided he was “behaving erratically.”
He proved them right, because his next move was to push his way onto the jetway, open an emergency door down to the tarmac — then hop into a luggage tug, and drive away.
The free version of AwardWallet suffices for some. You enter your frequent flyer account numbers and passwords. Then you can update most of your account balances with a single click and see them on one page. You can log into your accounts with a single click.
When I first signed up I realized quickly I was happy to pay the minimum required for their premium membership that included expiration date tracking for many of my accounts.
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 »
