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A week ago I gave American AAdvantage a hard time over lack of premium cabin award availability to anywhere any time on their own American Airlines flights.
I think that criticism was fare. However there’s now a little bit better availability on some routes, so in fairness it seems worth highlighting that.
The ACLU obtained documents meant to support the TSA’s ‘behavioral detection’ program and discovered there was no science behind it.
What there was, though, was a mish mash of documents like this presentation on identifying suicide bombers.
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.
Back in December I wrote about an amazing fare on United partner and Star Alliance member Avianca offer Los Angeles to Madrid, Barcelona, and London for about $2000 in business class. Those fares are still available and they’re incredibly flexible.
Avianca’s 787 business class is fully flat reverse herringbone seats with direct aisle access – a very good hard product.
Cathay Pacific launches its new US credit card today from Synchrony Bank. The most interesting features are 1.5 points per dollar on all foreign transactions (with no foreign transaction fees) and comped Marco Polo Club green tier the first year.
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.
American’s AAVacations is offering 15,000 bonus miles for booking an air and hotel package (minimum 3 night stay) by February 22 for travel through November 20.
American awards miles as a percentage of distance flown instead of based on fare on AAVacations tickets, and they often sell business class tickets at a discount this way as well.
I’m so fortunate my little fella is just 10 pounds and fits under the seat on a plane, because this story of a pet having to be shipped underneath the plane is just heartbreaking.
American Airlines makes virtually no premium cabin award space on their own flights available, except for the occasional brief ‘dumps’ of space that last for hours or a day before reverting to their normal lack of inventory.
It seems especially notable that right now American is offering a highly unusual amount of premium cabin award space at the very end of the schedule.
Last night the pilot of a United flight from Austin to San Francisco was removed after showing up out of uniform, in plain clothes, and entering the cabin to make a bizarre rant in front of passengers about her divorce, the election (she didn’t support Trump or Clinton), and make a book recommendation.
She apologized for being late, polled passengers on whether they minded that she was out of uniform, and promised that she’d be letting her co-pilot fly so that passengers didn’t need to be nervous about her (and emphasizing that ‘he’s a man‘).
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 »
