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There’s a huge fare war going on between the US and Australia and New Zealand. These aren’t mistake fares, they’re fares available on a variety of airlines, and they won’t last.
With word out last week that the TSA planned to make pat downs ‘more intimate’ — reducing the number of pat down options just to the single, most-invasive kind — the TSA has been reaching out to local police in anticipation that some passengers will be calling to report sex assaults.
The reason for the new pat downs, though, is impossible to parody.
British Airways is trialing something new at London Gatwick on short haul flights, crew give planes a light clean during the time between flights instead of paying contracted cleaners. COST-cutting British Airways bosses are letting planes take-off with just a “light clean” and toilet waste-tanks unemptied. Crew members are being paid an extra £10 if they give the plane a quick tidy before departure, saving cash on paying contracted cleaners. Crew will be paid an additional £10 per flight segment, and the new standards mean that “a jet’s sewage tank is not always emptied. Instead they fly if it is up to a third full. In addition BA planes can now depart with just 50 per cent levels of drinkable water used for making tea and coffee.” British Airways considers this a test to “see…
There’s an amazing deal right now from New York JFK, Washington Dulles, or Miami to Barcelona from $633 roundtrip.
Now, $633 is a pretty darned good economy roundtrip price. But this is for premium economy. It works for Helsinki also, maybe others.
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
Eighteen months ago the Former Four Seasons Carmelo Resort & Spa joined Hyatt and last year it became one of the first four ‘Unbound Collection’ properties, Hyatt’s “un-brand.”
Recently I wrote about a comedian who took revenge on a dog owner who wouldn’t pick up poop in the Delta terminal at LAX.
A reader who is a manager for one of the country’s large airlines at a major airport shared this recent ‘dog poop in the terminal’ story,
Hilton’s Honors program revamp is up and running. They’ve completed the transition to a pseudo-revenue based program. They eliminated award charts, but of course they had already varied pricing of expensive hotels now they’re doing it for all hotels and allowing prices to flex down as well as up.
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
British Airways announced significant seat ‘densification’ — adding a bunch of seats into the current planes, which necessarily means less room for customers than there is today.
And their planes are already plenty dense. British Airways arguably has the worst lie flat business class seat in the industry at 8-abreast on their Boeing 777s.
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