No New Crackdown on American Airlines Inflight Credit Card Marketing After All

steward on plane
Dec 12 2019

Earlier today I noted Lewis Lazare‘s Chicago Business Journal story that a new American Airlines memo to flight attendants was aiming to rein in their inflight credit card marketing.

The piece said American was telling flight attendants not to market the card when passengers are trying to sleep, or during emergencies, and to read the card announcement script verbatim. However an American Airlines spokesperson tells me that Lazare got it wrong, he didn’t have a new memo to flight attendants, just their standard training.

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Emirates Will Introduce a New Cocktail Bar In Business Class

private airplane bar
Dec 11 2019

Dubai-based Emirates Airlines was the first airline in the world to put showers in international first class. Even though Etihad, whose home airport is a mere 72 miles away in Abu Dhabi, added showers to their Airbus A380s the Emirates shower suite remains the gold standard.

They also installed a bar at the back of business class. They’re hardly the first airline to do this, but they dedicated significant real estate to the bar. It’s tended throughout the flight, there are snacks and good libations on offer.

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19 Year Old Woman Will Do ANYTHING To Travel In Luxury (But Won’t Earn Miles)

Dec 11 2019

In 2012 a site launched called Miss Travel (‘beautiful people travel free’) it was a sort of dating site largely for well off guys to meet young women who wanted to travel with them. One points blogger actually tried it out.

One woman though is dropping the pretense of meeting people for friendship and straight up offering sex at auction to fund her travels, starting price of $110,000.

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