In my opinion the ‘Luxury Card’ products are pretty good credit cards when considering only the benefits but with annual fees that are too high for their overall value proposition — at least in the U.S. and with current offerings. That could change.
There’s been a tremendous amount of media attention surrounding this incident, and I’ve spoken to many reporters about it.
I received one inquiry yesterday about using the story as a vehicle for talking about class division.
Before the end of the Obama administration, the Department of Transportation rejected American Airlines’ application to expand its antitrust-immunized joint venture with Qantas, arguing that it would harm competition, even though Australia and New Zealand authorities had already signed off
American is making a bunch of changes that sure look like they want to show the Department of Transportation that they won’t offer as many seats across the Pacific, or give customers as many miles, without approval of the joint venture.
I’ve maintained that the Chicago Aviation Police, who appeared to respond with too much force when called, deserve more of the blame for the incident than they’re getting. I have caveated this noting that we didn’t have video of what transpired before the passenger was dragged off.
Now there’s video we hadn’t seen before of the disagreement between the doctor and a police officer, before the passenger is dragged off the flight and bloodied.
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The world is aghast at the passenger who was dragged off a United flight by airport police on Sunday night. And rightly so. It’s big news because things like this rarely happen, but they sure feel like they could happen to most any of us who travel. No one wants to be put in that position.
Here, everything failed. However I’m afraid things really won’t get better.
DirecTV is offering 50,000 American AAdvantage miles for new signups on 24 month agreements for ‘select’ packages or above.
The biggest offer I’ve ever seen before was 30,000 United miles.
There’s a passenger being dragged off a plane and bloodied and then there’s people looking for their 15 minutes complaining about situations outside an airline’s control.
Which one does the story of Geoff Fearns, President of TriPacific Capital Advisors, sound like to you?
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.
Cathay Pacific will introduced a new first class for the Boeing 777-9X.
They aren’t sure whether the new first class will feature enclosed suites, because according to their research passengers like a ‘society’ element (see and be seen).
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