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The British Airways Data Breach Fine is a Huge Injustice, Where’s Your Piece of the Money?

by Gary Leff

plane tails
Jul 08 2019

British Airways is facing a proposed $230 million fine under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for a hack last summer compromised personal information on approximately 500,000 customers accessing its website.

This proposed fine is more than 3 times the total fines meted out during GDPR’s first year. In the year after GDPR’s passage there were 200,000 investigations, 64,000 of which found fault, resulting in total fines of approximately $70 million — nearly 90% of which was from a single case against Google.

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Terribly Named Flewber Offers Private Flights for $400 One Way ($700 Roundtrip)

by Gary Leff

Terribly Named Flewber Offers Private Flights for $400 One Way ($700 Roundtrip)
Jul 07 2019

Flewber sounds like Uber, and it’s app-based booking of private flights in the Northeast. They serve Boston, New York, East Hampton and Nantucket. And at $700 roundtrip — or $400 one-way — they even include a rebate to Uber to the airport.

They’re expanding to Philadelphia and DC and within 2 years to “Florida, Texas, California, Washington state, and Chicago.”

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Delta Passenger’s $500 Offer to Switch Seats on a 3 Hour Flight Fails

by Gary Leff

delta plane
Jul 07 2019

It doesn’t appear this worked, and I think I know why. $500 on a domestic midcon flight should be enough, the premium over extra legroom coach to buy first class is usually much less than that, and there’s a good chance that someone up front didn’t pay anything at all. However if flight attendants are going to get into the middle of a transaction, they’re going to need to be afforded a cut.

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It’s Now Possible to Buy Tickets for Virgin Atlantic’s New Business Class, and Fly it In September!

by Gary Leff

virgin upper class seat
Jul 07 2019

Virgin Atlantic announced their brand new business class in April but it wasn’t yet possible to buy a flight with these news seats.

The product will debut on the airline’s new Airbus A350 aircraft. Every seat is angled towards the window, has power, and the center seats in the 1-2-1 configuration have privacy screens. All seats are fully flat with direct aisle access.

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There’s Nothing Wrong With Flying Economy, Just Choose Your Airline Wisely

by Gary Leff

There's Nothing Wrong With Flying Economy, Just Choose Your Airline Wisely
Jul 06 2019

I recently spent a few hours in a Qantas coach seat onboard on of their Airbus A380s. I came away amazed by the experience. The seat itself was comfortable and well padded. I can’t say enough about the importance of padding, something that many modern ‘slimline’ seats designed to squeeze half an inch of space per row and make it possible to add more seats to the plane compromise on.

I fly Southwest Airlines all the time. Southwest has a motto ‘we do short better’ and Southwest coach is great for up to 3 hours or so. I wouldn’t love to fly them to Hawaii, but I’ll gladly jump on their Washington National – Austin flight since they’re the only one that can legally fly it and it saves me a connection.

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Southwest Airlines Will Status Match Over and Over and Over!

by Gary Leff

airline cabin
Jul 05 2019

Southwest’s status match offer isn’t once in a lifetime. Under the terms they’ve described I should be able to status match using my American Airlines status once my current Southwest status expires, and do that each and every year.

As long as Southwest runs this offer, provided they honor its terms, elites with any US airline should be eligible for continued Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards A-List status — you just need to let your Southwest status lapse before applying again.

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