News and notes from around the interweb:
- Points.com Loyalty Wallet ending September 6 so no more account tracking or transfers between programs
- American Airlines names a new CIO to replace the inestimable Maya Leibman.
- Live Data: how full is each British Airways lounge at London Heathrow?
- Singapore Airlines testing increased free internet
- Mark Cuban famously bought an American Airlines lifetime AAirpass after selling his first company, MicroSolutions, for $6 million in 1990. After selling Broadcast.com in 1999 he bought a $40 million Gulfstream V (the single largest online purchase at the time). So I wonder if he is confused here talking about using his American Airlines flight pass to fly to Moscow, since American didn’t start Chicago – Moscow service until 2008 if I recall correctly.
- Woot! (or ‘woof…’)
PILOT SAVES THE DAY! 🐶My flight #2266 was re-routed and delayed on @AmericanAir and this KIND & AWESOME pilot gives Arie a VIP potty break while we were parked on the tarmac! Then flew us safely home! THANK YOU!🥰woof!🐾 #thankyou #AmericanAirlines #adventuresofarie #beagle pic.twitter.com/ET73P8wS0J
— Fanchon StingerTV (@FanchonStinger) August 21, 2022
- United brings back its LA – San Diego flights.
Good catch by @airmarietta and @AilevonPacific. This cut received more than its share of coverage a couple of months ago. Now, apparently, it’s back? pic.twitter.com/OXvFRLOGhT
— Brian Sumers (@BrianSumers) August 22, 2022
@ Gary — What does Mr. Cuban mean that he “bought 125,000 miles”??
@Gene it’s a slip of the tongue mixed with embellishment of the facts because they don’t really matter the goal is to tell a nice story in front of an audience.
Cuban bought an air pass and had fun traveling with it. End of story.
When you’re on a stage like that the goal is to tell a thematically nice story not to agonize over the details. Moscow may have just been a hypothetical example of a far off destination the air pass put within reach.