Apr 23 2017

On January 6 a mentally ill man (who had previously tried to turn himself in to the FBI) flew from Anchorage to Fort Lauderdale. He checked a bag with his handgun, collected the gun from baggage claim, and after loading it in the restroom proceeded to kill 5 people and wound 6 more before surrendering to police at 1 p.m. in the afternoon.

Though the ‘all clear’ was given six hours later, some people couldn’t get out of the airport until long after midnight. The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel investigated what went wrong with the response

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Apr 23 2017

Dining for miles is one of the easy and free ways you can rack up points. Register, use your credit card when you dine out, and if it happens to be at a participating restaurant you’ll earn miles automatically.

Sign up for United’s program by June 30 and earn up to 4000 bonus miles on top of usual points-earn.

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Apr 23 2017

Etihad is one of the top airlines in the world for passenger experience. They offer a great connecting point in Abu Dhabi for travel to India and the surrounding region. I’ve used them to travel there as well as to the Maldives and also back from Sri Lanka.

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Apr 23 2017

Kenny G took Delta from Tampa to Los Angeles on yesterday morning’s flight 1558.

The famous saxophonist was sitting beside a woman “who was raising money for charity” and he got up in the aisle and played for donations. He “collected more than $2,000 for the [unnamed] charity.”

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Apr 23 2017

Flight attendant Sarah Steeger tweets what purports to be another passenger’s view of what happened leading up to the video of an altercation between an American Airlines flight attendant and a passenger that went viral.

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Apr 23 2017

The Airline Deregulation Act was passed in 1978 during the Carter administration. It was championed by Senator Ted Kennedy and Stephen Breyer as a pro-consumer move against a big business-government cartel. The airline industry largely opposed deregulation (United and Frontier were in the minority in support.)

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Apr 22 2017

A video of an altercation between an American Airlines flight attendant and a passenger went viral after the flight attendant reportedly grabbed the passenger’s stroller and nearly hit her baby in the process.

Association of Professional Flight Attendants President Bob Ross, representing flight attendants at the airline, put out a statement. And it’s deplorable.

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Apr 22 2017

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.

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Apr 22 2017

My advice is if you appear to be Muslim, or are meeting someone that is either coming from a majority Muslim country or with a Muslim-sounding name, you are best off not waiting for them at airport arrivals. Have them contact you once they’re through US customs and meet at that point.

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Apr 22 2017

You can’t bring replica weapons in your carry on but you can’t check those weapons either if they have lithium ion batteries.

However like Captain Kirk in the Kobayashi Maru exercise, there may be a way out of this double-bind.

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