News and notes from around the interweb:
- Credit cards that were discontinued in 2017
- In Travel Weekly‘s 2018 preview on airlines I point out that it’ll be a great time for customers looking for deals to Hawaii with all the new capacity coming online and in policy that the current administration seems to like Gulf carriers buying Boeing airplanes and they need the UAE and Qatar in the fight against terrorism and as they advance their Israel agenda as well, those ought to trump self-serving concerns from United, Delta, and American.
- Taiwan recalls passports with erroneous Dulles Airport image (HT: C.K.)
- Fox Amusingly Spoofs In-Flight Safety Videos For Its New Airplane Comedy, LA to Vegas
- Here’s What It Takes To Land A Boeing 777 At The Busiest Airport In New York
- 2000 Department of Homeland Security employees (including TSA) are now deployed across 70 countries and they’re not always welcome.
- Federal Trade Commission Backing Off Issue of Hotel Resort Fees (HT: Jonathan W.)
Homeland security link is wrong
Re discontinued cards – I had an old Ink Bold that was just PC’d to an Ink Plus. Letter says Bold is being completely discontinued.
I favor hidden fees, whether airline or hotel. Americans obviously benefit from never knowing what a flight with fancy choices like seat assignments, food, and checked bags actually costs before reaching the final screen when it’s time to pay for these extravagant selections. Likewise, hotel fees for modern amenities like paper news, access to this new internet thingy, actual cloth towels by the pool and local telephone calls is surely worth at least 20 bucks a night.
Thank goodness the government stepped in to stop the rules that burdened the consumer with the true costs for these choices.