News and notes from around the interweb:
- Qatar Airways extra award availability spending double miles and remember you can transfer numerous currencies into British Airways and Iberia, and from those programs into Qatar’s program.
- 500 free points when you join Cathay Pacific Asia Miles and link your Asia Miles account to Bilt, you’ll get 100 Bilt Rewards points.
- When I was young I used to get speeding tickets with some regularity, so I’d go to traffic school to have the infractions removed from my driving record. Each one had a schtick, like pizza for lunch included in the fee (“Pizza For You A Certificate Too”) and comedy traffic schools (“Lettuce Amuse U Traffic School”). The problem with the comedy schools was that any comedian whose best potential gig was teaching traffic school… Meanwhile some Southwest Airlines flight attendants are frustrated comedians.
This will make your day part 1 @SouthwestAir ❤️❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/xgMS5Kti1h
— LOCK UP TRUMP 🌊🌊🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 (@azardey3) May 13, 2023
Part 2 love this @SouthwestAir way to fly pic.twitter.com/KwAoF9C0o0
— LOCK UP TRUMP 🌊🌊🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 (@azardey3) May 13, 2023
- But they do sometimes do nice birthdays on Southwest.
@SouthwestAir Thank you so much for making my birthday so special. Best flight I’ve ever had 🥹 Full video: https://t.co/Wxf2O60Bcu pic.twitter.com/QMXuM20ftL
— International Spider-Man (@jeramiederoma) May 13, 2023
- Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh cancels wedding guests’ reservations to accommodate asylum seekers relocated from New York City
- 18 Hotel Employees Just Got Real About The Secrets You Could ONLY Know If You’ve Worked In A Hotel
- Andre the Giant once annihilated an airplane restroom
- For your next trip, a thread on Brazilian architecture:
Brazil is home to some of the most beautiful and diverse architecture in the world, from Baroque to Brutalism. Here's just a few of the best:
Library of the Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Rio de Janeiro (1887) pic.twitter.com/SAoQLmbyka
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) May 13, 2023
Any thoughts on Avios transfer bonuses from AMEX/Chase etc? It’s been a while.
I like good humor as much as anyone, but … “If you don’t like the jokes of the service today there are 6 ways out of this airplane, you feel free to use them, that is 2 forward exit doors, 2 over wing exits and 2 rear exit doors” is extraordinarily stupid. It’s basically an invitation, with audio/video and hundreds of witnesses, to use any of those exits, including emergency exits, whenever a passenger desires. It’s like the orange juice TV commercials of my youth when one of the orange juice companies was sued and sent invoices to pay for people’s trips to Florida because the narrator said (in the commercial) “come on down (to Florida), it’s on us.”
If only there was something in the Bible about how one should treat foreigners and refugees.
Oh, wait, there is:
• Leviticus 19:33-34: “When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”
• Exodus 22:21: “Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.”
• Deuteronomy 10:19: “You shall not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.”.
Double miles for increased award availability. Imagine Delta doing that…