Alaska Airlines offers a 20 minute bag guarantee but you only get miles if your bag is late, not if it’s destroyed.
One enterprising Alaska baggage handler decided to exploit this loophole today — just tossing bags out the side of an aircraft onto the tarmac in San Diego.
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Last week I ate the worst lobster roll I’ve ever had in my life. This shouldn’t surprise anyone – least of which me – because I ate it in an airport.
Let’s back up a bit. I flew to Boston, and it took around 14 hours because American Airlines….
Effective August 14 Singapore Airlines is imposing new rules on waitlisting for awards. They want you to be pay attention to now being able to manage wait list requests online and receiving proactive updates on your requests from the airline.
However there’s only one change that matters,
Imagine this: you’re packing for a trip to the United States. You’re making a list so you don’t forget anything. You get out your suitcases and start to load things in them. What’s the one thing you can’t live without on your trip, that you can’t buy once you hit Chicago?
Two months ago Alitalia, the Italian flag carrier surviving on government subsidies, launched new service between Washington Dulles and Rome.
Their marketing budget must not have any money in it for good writing or taste to support this flight.
UberEATS, the service that delivers food from restaurants, already delivers food from restaurants that don’t exist. Now they’re testing a new service that lets you order food through their app and then eat it at the restaurant. So far the concept of using Uber to eat in a restaurant is being tested in Austin, Dallas, Tucson, and San Diego.
A man on board Delta flight DL579 from San Juan to New York JFK tried to break into the aircraft’s cockpit this morning. But he was doing it for San Juan’s own good, and for the good of all.
The 30 year old passenger yelled, “I am God. Tomorrow San Juan is going to disappear. I came to save the world, and I’m going to end terrorism.”
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Barclays has just increased the initial bonus offer for its AAdvantage Aviator Red Mastercard to (what’s tied for) a best-ever bonus offer of 60,000 miles after first purchase within 90 days and paying the card’s $99 annual fee — there is no minimum spend — but added on an unprecedented $99 companion ticket also after first purchase within 90 days.
I have a companion ticket from my Aviator Silver card and was just lamenting that I have only one as I plan a few domestic trips with my wife and infant daughter where American Airlines travel makes the most sense.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
