Category Archives for Airports.
Ben Schlappig, ‘Lucky’ at One Mile at a Time, has gone viral in Egypt for his criticisms of the Cairo airport – and has elicited a public attacks and threats from that government’s minister in charge of the airport.
CLEAR is a paid program that’s supposed to solve this but the more successful CLEAR becomes, the less useful it is. CLEAR has long lines, too!
So here’s a little trick that can get you through security much faster at some airports, and make CLEAR useful again.
One airport vending machine offers food that’s better than first class. Eating well can be difficult during travel, especially on planes and in airports.
You don’t get much in coach. Domestic first class meals are quite bad. Every airport restaurant except Tortas Frontera is bad by design.
A crypto businessman, Antônio Vinícius Lopes Gritzbach, was assassinated mid-afternoon at São Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport yesterday. The shooting, which injured three bystanders, occurred outside domestic Terminal 2, in an attack attributed to criminal gang First Capital Command (PCC) which controls significant drug trafficking routes and tentacles across South American and European crime networks.
Americans don’t know geography, and can’t find Oakland on a map. So Oakland airport and San Francisco airport are locked in a legal battle over whether the Oakland airport can call itself “San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport.”
As of this writing, CLEAR (Clear Secure Inc., NYSE: YOU) shares are down 20% this morning after the company revealed that new signups were down to a trickle. Ultimately the paradox of CLEAR is that the more they grow, they less successful they become.
Here’s an inspiring story that comes from a Rabbi stranded at the Tel Aviv airport when a Hezbollah rocket struck the airport grounds on Wednesday.
In a significant escalation, Hezbollah launched a series of rockets at central Israel on Wednesday, targeting areas near Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. The Israel Defense Forces reported that most of the projectiles, around ten in total, were intercepted, though one rocket impacted close to the airport, resulting in flight disruptions.
A Publix supermarket shopping cart was spotted on a moving walkway at the Miami International Airport, and I have questions.
These certainly make good luggage carts, although this one was empty. But how did it get there in the first place? What was someone doing with it?
“I found some white tablets in a clear plastic glove, all in the bottom of one finger of the glove,” buried deep within her dirty clothes. The tablets were unmarked, five in total, and she has “no idea” what they were. “It felt really scary that somehow someone had either accidentally or intentionally put it in my suitcase.”
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 »
