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News and notes from around the interweb:
- The opportunity to earn 10x on restaurants and gas using Marriott credit cards has been extended to September 30.
The Marriott Bonvoy BoundlessTM Credit Card has a limited time offer to earn 100,000 Bonus Points after you spend $3,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
- Border Patrol Has Used Facial Recognition to Scan More Than 16 Million Fliers — and Caught Just 7 Imposters
- Hyundai Development Corporation’s expected takeover of Star Alliance airline Asiana looks likely to collapse
- Virgin Atlantic cuts more jobs
Copyright: boarding1now / 123RF Stock Photo - Update on the new Washington National airport concourse that replaces the dreaded gate 35X. (HT: Edward Russell)
- Back in March Marriott furloughed two-thirds of corporate staff. Now they’ve announced actual termination for 673 of the 4000 corporate headquarters employees.
- Coronavirus gave the European Commission a way to call subsidies for Alitalia legal
Copyright: jvdwolf / 123RF Stock Photo
Too bad about Asiana. It’s a wonderful airline to fly, but Hyundai clearly wants out. Only thing that’ll save the airlines is a vaccine.