News and Notes from Around the Interweb:
- Passengers stuck on a plane for hours were charged for water. And it wasn’t even Spirit. Or an attempt to utilize the price system to ration scarce resources. (HT: sobore on Milepoint)
- Tasting notes on Hyatt’s private label Canvas house wines.
- If you didn’t win Briggs & Riley luggage in my recent giveaways, you can enter Points, Miles, & Martini’s TORQ bag giveaway. (Well, strictly speaking, you can enter there even if you did win here.)
- 20% off a Virgin America ticket valid for travel September 10 – November 6 by liking and entering info on their Facebook page.
- United partner Silver Airways introduces its own frequent flyer program that earns… United miles.
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Tiger Airways is about to discover that this is the sort of publicity you just can’t buy. I’ve barely even heard of them before, but they are already on my personal “don’t fly list”….
Ryan and Spirit will no doubt soon follow Tiger’s pioneering effort to increase passenger revenue.
I got the Virgin Atlantic promo code but am 99% sure I won’t use it. Wish it were 20% off award flights too.