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News and notes from around the interweb:
- Customers with the Platinum Card by American Express can now access Escape lounges in Hartford, Minneapolis and Oakland airports.
- Passenger spills tea on herself, sues airline, wins
- It looks like the US is twisting Australia’s arm, and its Prime Minister says they’re considering an electronics ban. Australia sent significant forces to Iraq, too, because the US told them to.
- Excellent trip report as airlines changed the terminals they operated out of at LAX overnight
- Alaska Airlines is selling miles with targeted bonuses, reportedly up to 50% (which gives you their lowest price ever). One account I manage only received an offer up to a 40% bonus.
- Delta was reportedly imposing limits on elite qualifying miles earned with their co-brand credit cards. However Rene’s Points says nothing has actually changed, and Delta simply confused matters when trying to offer ‘clarification’ of how things work now.
- Changing planes mid-air to replace a lost wheel
- Delta was reportedly imposing limits on elite qualifying miles earned with their co-brand credit cards. However Rene’s Points says nothing has actually changed, and Delta simply confused matters when trying to offer ‘clarification’ of how things work now.
Pretty soon all electronics larger than a phone will be banned coming into the US.
I hope that pax will be permitted to take more than one phone-size electronics item on board. E.g., phone, spare battery, mifi.