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American Airlines IT Team: Too Mired In Management-Speak To Ship Products? [Roundup]
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Booking Betrayal: Hotel Cancels Reservations And Triples Price When It Realizes NFL Draft Is Nearby
Football fans booked themselves a room at the Detroit Club hotel months ago for April 25 to be near the NFL draft. The room rate was $350 ($427.50 with taxes and fees) per night. The hotel cancelled their reservation, and told them if they wanted to stay the night they’d have to pay an $1,100 room rate.
Alaska Airlines’ Latest Baggage Policy Shakeup: A Customer Nightmare [Roundup]
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Passenger Refuses To Get Kicked Off Flight – And United Lets Her Stay [Roundup]
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Global Entry Game-Changer at Dulles Airport [Roundup]
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Woman Gets Off American Airlines Flight When The Vibrator In Her Carry-On Won’t Turn Off
An American Airlines passenger in the bulkhead of first class boarded her aircraft, and her carry on bag began making a loud vibrating noise. My razor has done this. I open the bag (it’s generally in my laptop bag) and turn it off. Here she didn’t want the whole cabin to see what she was turning off, so she walked off the aircraft and back onto the jet bridge. There, you can see what it was that was vibrating.
Renaissance Newark Airport’s Water May Be Making People Sick, Hotel Still Taking Bookings
The Renaissance Newark Airport hotel is informing guests that there is Legionella bacteria in samples collected from its water system, which they learned after two reports of guests contracting Legionnaire’s Disease following stays on property. They continue to take guests, but are telling people not to shower.
The Downfall of a Private Jet Club: $40 Million Scandal Went From Bad To Worse [Roundup]
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The Children’s Toy That Was Banned From Planes By The FAA
1999’s big toy innovation was Furby, a robot toy that was kind of like a furry, colorful owl. 14 million were sold that one year alone. As long as it had batteries, Furby was on and talking. It began by speaking its own Furbish language, but as it listened to its owner it would learn English. Tickle the Furby and it might kiss you. If you rewarded that behavior with pets, the frequency of kisses would increase. If you had two Furby (Furbies?) they would talk to each other.