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News and notes from around the interweb:
- Has Sean Duffy’s controversial roadtrip miniseries been memory holed? It’s not out yet, before America 250, and it was promised to debut in June.
- AAdvantage Vacations is offering elevated mileage and status earning, so that total package earns in the AAdvantage progam like regular American Airlines airfare.
- Maine Senator Susan Collins’ re-election campaign ““Rocked by Lavish Travel Revelations” which is just to say that Senators live well aside from their relatively modest salaries, and at least she doesn’t have a Nazi tattoo. (HT: Paul H)
- We knew that JetBlue first class probably couldn’t actually get named ‘Junior Mint’ but it won’t be Mini Mint either, and instead Blue First.
- American Airlines CEO Robert Isom: ‘Try my nuts’
- Robinhood Gold Card was ok at 3% cash back, that’s good for cash back, but they’re adding 3% foreign transaction fees for new cardmembers. Robinhood is trash. Obviously Alaska Airlines Atmos Summit is better at 3x on all foreign transactions and when you’re earning at least 3x or 3.3x on Bilt Palladium Card (See rates and fees) that has them all beat anyway.
Have not used AA Vacations (I do love AA Hotels) but seems worth exploring more – especially because per T&Cs looks like you can get creative with who gets the miles/LPs. For instance if you add all AA numbers for a family of 4 the miles/LPs will be split among the 4 of you. But if you just put one AA number in, that person would receive all of the miles/LPs. So could be a useful tool for P1 to get all of the miles/LPs for a trip where kids would otherwise receive miles/LPs
I’m here to see people who call others “Nazis” all the time defend the guy with a Nazi tattoo.
And if you say he didn’t know it was a Nazi tattoo, I’m here for the people who say “believe all women” but call even progressive women liars if they say their candidate with the Nazi tattoo knew what it was.
And if you say it was a long time ago and people change, I’m here for those who say reported behavior in high school or decades ago is a big deal, unless you’re a Dem with a Nazi tattoo.
@thing 1
shots fired @1990
bring on the defense for Platner and his nazi tattoo, 1990!
@Peter
The T&Cs say exactly the opposite: For a 3 person package earning 9000 miles in total, where only 2 people have AAdvantage numbers, the two members would earn 3000 each and the third person gets nothing.
@Thing 1 – Please. Unless they came from Sterneckerbräu in Munich, the correct term is sparkling fascists.
Platner’s tattoo: Two words: drunk Marine. No other excuse is needed.
Isom’s photo op: I prefer Nuts on Clark’s popcorn to Garrett’s. That’s because all of the Nuts On Clarks at ORD and MDW have popcorn salt available and they use a better popcorn. I like my popcorn on the salty side, and Garrett’s just doesn’t cut it. I’m surprised Gary didn’t complain about the subject because that photo’s taken only a few steps away from the H/K Tortas Frontera.
B6: So Blue Worst is joining Mint Is Shint. But con enough Noo Yawkers into thinking their “hometown airline” is successful, and you can be a little less than $10B in debt. Chapter 7 can’t come soon enough.
Love Robinhood Gary. Glad to see they are protecting the 3% cash back. Its the best card for unbonused spend. But if you use it too much, they nerf you, which protects the 3% for lite users. Much more transparent than all the other coupon books and what not. The low credit limits also keep costs down for robinhood, but obviously that isn’t enough, so the nursing of ftf has hit. The transfer bonuses for new money to robinhood are unmatched. Plus now you can gamble on robinhood! Id like to see Fidelity or vanguard match that.
I much preferred Mini Mint, as a name, but I get it that from a marketing standpoint, probably better to call it something less ‘diminishing’… still just glad B6 is getting this done! (Unlike WN which talks a big game but doesn’t deliver on recliners or lounges yet.)
@MaxPower — I don’t directly use that N-word on here. I’ve called #47 a nationalist and a socialist (based on his forcing Intel to sell the US government 10% ‘golden’ shares). You draw your own conclusions.
As for Maine, yeah, gimme a D, tattooed or not. Gotta play this game to win. The voters can and will decide.
@Nyalan – yeah, you’re right – Gary should feel free to delete my comment. Reading the T&Cs too early, I guess.
Some ability to be creative though – can book an AA Vacation for 1 to get the points on the hotel and then just book separate airplane tickets for the family. Or if you’re EP and spouse doesn’t have status, can book through AA Vacations so it elevates all the spend to 11x.
I didn’t realize Isom’s balls were that big.
GULP.
@1990 – I figured you were big into the D. (GRIN) Where I live, you need daily doses of the D or you get depressed. In fact, if you get bored, google “Yukon We all need the D”.
Or are you into ‘another’ type of D? 😀 I’m not a fan of division, I’m one of those purple or porcupine types.
I may be misreading but the AA Vacations website is only indicating 5x earnings for status members with no additional bump to 11x mentioned. Could I get a link to that? (And AA Vacations doesn’t interact with the Executive card, does it?)
And I am not disappointed! Disgusted, but not disappointed.
And we’re not even getting into his treatment and statements regarding women and minorities. Support this guy over *Susan Collins* and you have no right to comment about any other politicians. Yes, you are the “baddies”
@Gray – this is the correct link – https://www.aavacations.com/en/maximizemiles-vacation-packages
I don’t believe there’s any overlap with AA Exec card (and booking flights separately may be the better deal because of 10x on AA Hotels with AA Exec card) but if you are in the 25% 60k LP bonus that does apply to AA Vacations – although I’m not sure of the timing (if you are in the bonus at time of booking versus time of travel/hotel stay).
Disgusted to see “D(eutshland)[emocrats] Uber Ales” takes here in the comments. Drunk marine doesn’t excuse everything else he has said and done. He knew it was an SS tattoo and he was proud of it. And that’s just a drop of the ocean of the low life he is.
@Thing1 I don’t see any surprise.. It has always been them (pointing themselves in the mirror), many of them doesn’t even know that the party was the ‘NATIONAL SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY’, the very same ideology of the genocide left.
The lengths they go to adjudicate that party to the decent right is the very same exercise those racists from the KKK party make to call us racists.
@Common Sense and why wouldn’t he be proud of a tattoo of his very same ideology? they were also socialists
And who runs the most vicious continuous campaign against the Jews and Israel nowadays?.. Of course the left! as always. Nothing has changed, it’s amazing that there is still ppl that prefer to be blind.
@Gary nice reminder on the ‘Obviously Alaska Airlines Atmos Summit is better at 3x on all foreign transactions’. Totally forgot about that. Currently almost 80% of my spend is foreign. You didn’t embed the link for application though.