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A man promised to take his girlfriend to the airport and watch her dogs while she was away. He flaked on her, failing to show up. She missed her flight and she sued for breach of contract. The two had been dating for six and a half years, and she probably let the relationship go on too long, but the New Zealand court found (quite sensibly) that there was no consideration – just a promise and not a contract.
Security staff at London Heathrow terminal 4’s fast track lane were all reportedly wearing Pro-Palestine badges while screening passengers before an El Al flight to Tel Aviv on Sunday. This violates their uniform rules.
More than a hundred migrants are now living at Boston Logan Airport baggage claim, creating a makeshift community using limited blankets as mattresses. The baggage claim refugee camp began earlier this year but has grown with migrants arriving at “at all hours.”
Migrants are transported to state welcome centers each day, but then brought back to the airport by nightfall since state shelters are at capacity – to live in a cold environ with hard floors, bright lights and loud announcements.
Bark Air is a high end startup airline for dogs flying Gulfstream G5s between New York, LA and London. Its first revenue flight was May 23.
Bark Air operates out of Westchester County airport near White Plains, and the County is suing to stop them. It’s not the dogs they object to. It’s that Westchester County has an airport at all.
The U.K. government claims the move is not in response to a specific security threat.
A customs dog alerted to a passenger’s bag off of an arriving Amsterdam flight in Chicago on Saturday and it’s no surprise. The contents were easy to smell: raw African bushmeat that had been decomposing for 30 hours in transit, infested with maggots. The dog was so agitated that it began tearing at the plastic wrap as soon as the luggage appeared.
An American Airlines Airbus A319 had a near miss at Washington’s Reagan National airport on Wednesday. Flight 2134 to Boston was cleared for takeoff on runway 1, while a King Air was cleared to land. Air traffic control realized their mistake, cancelling takeoff clearance for the American Airlines flight – and telling the King Air to abort and go around. They couldn’t because they were already on the ground.
There’s a secret spot in the Austin airport that two travelers found for a sleep – the American Airlines Admirals Club, and you don’t actually have to be a member.
There was a move to enshrine a legal right to opt out of TSA facial recognition in the recent FAA Reauthorization bill. The amendment didn’t make it in – killed by TSA lobbying.
TSA’s current policy is to allow passenger opt out, but wanted this left to their own discretion rather than requiring them to honor it.
On May 6, air traffic control cleared American Airlines flight 2473 to take off for Dallas. Then – immediately after – the same air traffic controller cleared Frontier 1734 from Denver to cross the same runway to head towards its gate.
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 »
