American Express Starts Limiting Access to Centurion Lounges

hotel lobby
Mar 09 2017

American Express Centurion Lounges are great. They’re stylish, offer complimentary real hot and cold food items and a complimentary tended bar. The Dallas Fort-Worth and Miami lounges have complimentary spas. There are kids rooms, showers in most. And customer service is great.

The challenge is that, to borrow from Yogi Berra, they’re so good I don’t go there anymore.

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Hawaii Flight Diverts Over a $12 Blanket

Mar 08 2017

This morning’s Hawaiian Airlines flight 7 from Las Vegas to Honolulu made it out over the Pacific Ocean, dumped fuel, and diverted to LAX because a passenger objected to being asked to pay $12 for a blanket.

He asked a flight attendant for the phone number to call the airline to complain.

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New Unique Priority Pass Lounge for American Airlines Customers in Philadelphia

Mar 08 2017

While there are certainly challenges with overcrowding at some lounges thanks to how many of us now have Priority Pass cards from premium credit cards, you have to hand it to the Collinson Group’s team for getting creative adding lounges like Turkish Airlines at Washington Dulles, the Sofitel Heathrow terminal 5’s club lounge, and a restaurant at London Gatwick.

And now the Minute Suites in Philadelphia is now a Priority Pass lounge.

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TSA Reaching Out to Police to Convince Them New Screening Procedures Aren’t Sexual Assault

people walking in airport
Mar 07 2017

With word out last week that the TSA planned to make pat downs ‘more intimate’ — reducing the number of pat down options just to the single, most-invasive kind — the TSA has been reaching out to local police in anticipation that some passengers will be calling to report sex assaults.

The reason for the new pat downs, though, is impossible to parody.

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