Dec 24 2016

The routine and efficiency of frequent travel were captured beautifully — albeit harkening back to before pre-check and mobile boarding passes, and you don’t have to swipe offer your elite card when returning a car at Hertz — by George Clooney in Up in the Air:

But now it’s the holidays. I’m grateful after a year of travel not to be going anywhere this season, to put some time in at home. When I do travel on peak holidays I do my best not to travel the Wednesday before Thanksgiving or the Sunday after, or the last business day before Christmas. These are amateur days.

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Dec 24 2016

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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Dec 23 2016

Carrie Fisher had a cardiac episode onboard United flight 935 from London to Los Angeles today. She was reportedly “in a lot of distress on the flight.” Medical personnel met the flight and found her “unresponsive.”

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Dec 23 2016

An 8 year old girl named Eleanor lost her teddy bear — named Teddy — on Wednesday night after arriving in Detroit on a Southwest Airlines flight from Dallas.

At bedtime she realized her bear was gone. Her mother called Southwest and filed a lost and found report.

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Dec 23 2016

The woman sought the assistance of the crew who ordered him to return to his business class seat. He kept asking to speak to the woman he had assaulted, but was told in no uncertain terms that he couldn’t. Instead he wrote two notes to her apologizing, saying in one that he “was stupid.”

He was stupid on so many level.

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Dec 23 2016

This morning a United Airlines passenger scheduled to fly from Orlando to Chicago was denied boarding when airline personnel decided he was “behaving erratically.”

He proved them right, because his next move was to push his way onto the jetway, open an emergency door down to the tarmac — then hop into a luggage tug, and drive away.

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Dec 23 2016

The free version of AwardWallet suffices for some. You enter your frequent flyer account numbers and passwords. Then you can update most of your account balances with a single click and see them on one page. You can log into your accounts with a single click.

When I first signed up I realized quickly I was happy to pay the minimum required for their premium membership that included expiration date tracking for many of my accounts.

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Dec 23 2016

There are some pretty clever wifi network names. I boarded a flight once and saw someone’s called “Pretty Fly for a WiFi.” They’re not all clever, at home I can see a neighbor in my building with a network named “condogirl.”

If you’re on a plane, though, you need to turn off your wireless transmitting devices (use airplane mode) once the door closes and you need to not name your network “bomb” or…

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Dec 23 2016

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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Dec 22 2016

A week ago I wrote about my problem transferring points from Starwood to Aeroplan. I had transferred 1 Starpoint in order to keep my Aeroplan account active. You need some account activity every 12 months, and I had about half a million Aeroplan points at stake.

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