A man was arrested at the Santiago airport Tuesday after causing significant damage to the American Airlines check-in area. The individual, reportedly of Haitian descent, had purchased a ticket to Miami, only to discover upon arrival that the ticket was fraudulent.
Upon learning that he would not be able to travel, the man became enraged and retrieved a hammer from his backpack.
A couple of months ago I wrote about SAS offering a status match. Some readers complained that it wasn’t broadly relevant enough, since it states it’s available only to European residents. But it’s relevant because they appear to be status matching anyone with enough of a pulse to fill out a form. Vital signs sufficient to upload attachments not required.
Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards has a new promotion offering four ways to accelerate progress towards elite status.
A passenger at the Miami airport brought another man up to the check-in counters for South American airline LATAM. That man was shrink-wrapped. The man assisting carefully lifts him and places him on a baggage scale. Later, the man in green plastic carefully hops away from the check-in area.
The wrapped man’s companion eventually dismantles the green plastic prior to proceeding through security, surrounded by local police.
Once on board the Bombardier CR-9 regional jet, the woman found she didn’t fit in first class seat 2A. She didn’t quite have room for herself along with her dog. So the flight attendant on this Delta Connection trip allowed her to move across the aisle to sit in 2C, and for her dog to take 2D. They did this even though both of those seats were assigned to other passengers.
When two Delta Air Lines employees were tragically killed on Tuesday at an airport maintenance hangar following a tire explosion, the airport took to Twitter to express condolences using Delta’s corporate slogan “keep climbing.”
A United Airlines passenger flying from Los Angeles to Chicago O’Hare found himself with an empty middle seat beside his window seat, pulled down the tray of the middle seat while inflight and whipped out a second laptop – working on both of them. Another passenger wonders if he bought himself a second seat planning to do this for work – it’s actually more width than flying first class, “I think I found myself more impressed than annoyed.”
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Vietnam Airlines announced a status match offer. They’re partners with Delta Air Lines, and they’re a SkyTeam member, plus they have a number of other partnerships that can offer elite recognition so this will be reasonably interesting for many.
Delta will charge you 425,000 SkyMiles one-way Atlanta to Santiago, Chile in business class on April 17th. And Delta will happily make award space on this flight available to its partners. So if you’re an Air France KLM Flying Blue member, the same flight that Delta charges 425,000 miles to SkyMiles members can be booked for just 90,000 Flying Blue points.
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