The value is sometimes obscured by Hyatt’s website which doesn’t show the best deal, or makes the deal look initially more expensive than it actually is on first display. You shouldn’t necessarily sleep on Hyatt’s premium suite upgrade awards.
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There’s a new class action lawsuit against United Airlines for selling window seats without windows. Surprisingly, United actually does this.
“I had a few light beers last night,” Southwest Airlines captain David Paul Allsop told police at Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport after TSA officers said they could smell alcohol on him. Minutes later, body camera footage shows officers stepping into the cockpit of his Boeing 737, telling him he wasn’t flying, and leading him away.
When do you leave the airport lounge to head to your gate? One couple was overhead in the arguing over whether it was time to leave. The husband was anxious for awhile, and when it was finally 30 minutes prior to boarding he’d had enough.
Is it fair that a slight woman of 100 pounds get charged an excess baggage fee for going over the weight limit on her checked luggage with a 51 pound suitcase, but a 300 pound woman checking a 50-pound bag isn’t charged for any excess?
A passenger on a flight from Mexico to Manchester in the U.K. on TUI spent the entire 8 hour journey locked in a battle with the flyer in front of them. He decided that the person in the row ahead would not recline into his space under any circumstance. And he enforced that edict with his hands.
AirAsia X Flight 506 from Kuala Lumpur to Seoul was supposed to touch down at Incheon airport at 7:50 p.m. local time on Wednesday – but it landed at Seoul’s Gimpo airport instead, about 20 miles off course.
San Diego airport is getting an Escape Lounge, which are especially nice common use lounges generally accessible with Priority Pass.
The crew slapped restraints on him. Twice. He broke free both times. The second time, a 6’6″ ex-football player on the flight manhandled him back down like a toddler into a car seat. “Sit your ass down,” he apparently told the man,
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