American Keeps Hitting Customers With Fuel Surcharge Mistakes On Award Tickets

by Gary Leff

looking out of airport
Aug 17 2017

Hong Kong law doesn’t allow fuel surcharges on travel originating there. Even British Airways, for instance, doesn’t add fuel surcharges to Hong Kong – London flights. Nonetheless, American Airlines was hitting customers with these fuel surcharges anyway. And only some customers are getting refunds.

They were overcharging these fees on other award tickets to and their response is that sometimes mistakes happen. We need to catch them in act, and we can get refunds for everyone that’s been overcharged.

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SICKENING: Saudi-Backed Media Shows Simulation Shooting Down of Qatar Airways Plane

by Gary Leff

Aug 17 2017

The piece explains the blockade as a decision by ‘the anti-terrorism states’. The air blockade is arguably in violation of international agreements, yet the report suggests that not only is it legal but that “according to international law any state which forbids an airline from crossing above it possesses the right to deal with any airplane entering its realm.”

Indeed, a legitimate improper entry into a country’s air space may be ‘dealt with’. However it follows with a fairly tortured claim that international law provides a proactive right to shoot down an aircraft.

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Five Bonus Offers Not to Miss This Month

by Gary Leff

first class cabin
Aug 16 2017

Credit card bonuses boost your balances quickly, in some cases a single credit card can get you more than one flight or a premium cabin flight. Get one yourself, get one for your travel companion, and you’re booking award travel in no time.

One way to think about which cards to sign up for is to look at the travel you want to do, and consider the cards with the biggest or much better than usual signup bonuses where it’s not expected the bonuses will stay around long.

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