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.
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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CNN Whitehouse photojournalist Mark Walz flew Southwest Airlines out of West Palm Beach, Florida on Monday night and checked some camera equipment….
Qatar just announced their own suites, topping even their existing product. They’re the second airline in the world to announce suites with doors in business class. And they look really impressive.
Here are the details you need to know.
There’s a huge fare war going on between the US and Australia and New Zealand. These aren’t mistake fares, they’re fares available on a variety of airlines, and they won’t last.
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.
British Airways is trialing something new at London Gatwick on short haul flights, crew give planes a light clean during the time between flights instead of paying contracted cleaners. COST-cutting British Airways bosses are letting planes take-off with just a “light clean” and toilet waste-tanks unemptied. Crew members are being paid an extra £10 if they give the plane a quick tidy before departure, saving cash on paying contracted cleaners. Crew will be paid an additional £10 per flight segment, and the new standards mean that “a jet’s sewage tank is not always emptied. Instead they fly if it is up to a third full. In addition BA planes can now depart with just 50 per cent levels of drinkable water used for making tea and coffee.” British Airways considers this a test to “see…
There’s an amazing deal right now from New York JFK, Washington Dulles, or Miami to Barcelona from $633 roundtrip.
Now, $633 is a pretty darned good economy roundtrip price. But this is for premium economy. It works for Helsinki also, maybe others.
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 »
