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Ex-Airline CEO Faces Huge Fine For Skipping Mandatory Hotel Quarantine

by Gary Leff

airplane docked
May 02 2021

James Hogan, founding CEO of Etihad, was bounced from that carrier in 2017 after buying stakes in troubled airlines around the world and mounting losses that reached as high as $2 billion a year. These investments included stakes in air berlin, Alitalia, Jet Airways and Virgin Australia.

The dual Australian and U.K. citizen is accused of using his two passports, and flying to the U.K. via a third country, in a scheme to avoid mandatory quarantine – and now it’s believed he may have done it before, too.

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No Longer Needed Government Mask Mandate Extended Through September 13

by Gary Leff

Apr 30 2021

Mask rules made a lot of sense when airlines began requiring them. People should have been wearing higher quality masks and learning to wear them properly. Now that vaccines are available to any U.S. adult that wants one, the mandate should be allowed to expire. But government regulations tend to outlast their usefulness.

The mask mandate will end when the President is ready to declare victory over Covid-19.

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United Is Giving Elites 3 Promotions To Choose From, Makes Status Easier To Earn

by Gary Leff

airline seat with teddy bear
Apr 29 2021

United will let elite members earn 25% of their status requirements with 3 trips, or members can choose a bonus of 10% of their status requirements or bonus miles instead. That’s on top of the 25% credit towards status United has already given.

While some people will earn elite status this year, 2021 is mostly a wash out for an airline’s best customers. And that means airlines need to take steps to extend status again and start over next year or they’ll risk pushing these members into free agency.

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Flight Attendant Is Suing Southwest Airlines For Killing Her Husband

by Gary Leff

Apr 28 2021

It’s amazing that lawsuits over Covid-19 haven’t been nearly as significant as feared. At one point Covid-19 legislation was being held up in Congress over disagreements about including lawsuit immunity for employers (predictably Republicans favored this on behalf of business, and Democrats opposed on behalf of trial lawyers).

Yet there’s a new lawsuit by a Southwest Airlines flight attendant who says she contracted Covid-19 during recurrent training, gave it to her husband, and he died.

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Real Estate Agents Now Advertise At Airport Gates, Will Give You Hundreds Of Thousands Of Miles

by Gary Leff

Apr 28 2021

The real estate market is hot in many areas of the U.S., and mortgage rates remain low by historical standards. Real estate agents will pay for their next lead, and lead generators will rebate part of that payment to you in the form of airline miles. It’s potentially win-win-win.

And in a sign of the times not only can you earn miles buying or selling a house (or both!) but there are now ads for American AAdvantage partner Miles From Home Realty running at American Airlines gates across 75 airports.

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