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American AAdvantage Improves Mileage Expiration Policy

by Gary Leff

Mar 01 2022

American Airlines on the other hand has maintained an 18 month expiration policy. Any activity in the account extends out expiration to 18 months in the future. During the pandemic, with younger leisure travelers making up a disproportionate amount of flying, American updated this to no expiration for members under 21 years old.

Now they’ve offered two further improvements: mileage expiration is now after 24 months of activity and Citi and Barclays co-brand cardmembers won’t have miles expire as long as their accounts are open.

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Dear United Airlines: There’s Such A Thing As Too Much Information About A Delay

by Gary Leff

Feb 25 2022

One of the biggest frustrations airline passengers face is delays – but not just because they may not get where they’re going when they’d hoped, or even miss a connection along the way, but because they’re frequently kept in the dark about what’s going on. They don’t know when to expect they’ll actually leave, and often feel like they’re being lied to.

And they sometimes are lied to! But one United Airlines flight today offered a little too much truth.

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Woman Arrested At LAX By Mistake, Jailed For 13 Days, And Then Her Grandmother Died

by Gary Leff

Feb 24 2022

The late Senator Ted Kennedy was flagged at the airport because his name was similar to someone on the No Fly List.* Delta’s CEO wants to expand the use of these lists. And of course we can totally trust that only bad people will be hassled, right? Because law enforcement doesn’t make mistakes.

Tell that to Bethany Farber who was arrested at LAX and jailed for two weeks because, police say, she had the same name as someone else with an outstanding warrant. Here’s what the two women look like, side-by-side, so you can understand the officers’ confusion.

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Win Cash Prizes on ‘The Amazing Race for Regular People’

by Gary Leff

amazing race comp map
Feb 24 2022

After 3 year hiatus, the Competitours mystery European team travel competition is back.

Featuring 10 teams of two players zigzagging on a secret routing across the nooks and crannies
of Western Europe, participants earn points by accomplishing a series of daily challenges that pushes them gently out of their comfort zone. The top three teams split a cash pool. In 2019, 70% of the teams were repeat players – that’s how much people love it. Each year is a totally new itinerary.

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