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According to the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit the TSA can lie, have you arrested, and you have no remedy because 9/11.
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
Finding American Airlines business class saver award space is nearly impossible. It generally goes in spurts, with seats released and then they’re gone 24-48 hours later.
So when you find American Airlines business class saver award space, you grab it.
oneworld airline LATAM, an American Airlines and Alaska Airlines partner, is running a business class sale and has some great fares between the US and many cities throughout Latin America.
We will see the very first Boeing 767-300 with Polaris seats coming soon.
What Polaris does that’s special for United is let them put direct aisle access flat seats into a plane without giving up any density. They can fit the same number of seats in the same space as before.
United reportedly locked the World’s Biggest Rabbit in a freezer for hours and them cremated it without permission. They shoved a 71 year old man to the ground and threatened to take all his miles. And that doesn’t even get us to David Dao. Yet they’re still making money.
United seems to be learning that customers really want the abuse.
Make no mistake, if Delta, American, and United get the Administration to abrogate its Open Skies treaty obligations and limit flights by Emirates, Etihad, and Qatar it’s because Chief Economic Advisor Gary Cohn is sidelined. They’ll have won because of Cohn’s pushback over the President’s statements after Charlottesville.
Most of the time I’ve seen buy ups from Basic Economy to regular economy for $25 or so, or more on longer routes. But Tuesday night reader W. shared New York LaGuardia – Denver asking different buy up amounts for different flights — as much as $75 more one way.
There’s no way I would pay $75 more to avoid Basic Economy though I might pay the same or a little more to avoid United in this case.
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
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 »
