“Fish out of water” stories from flights in China are probably becoming more common, rather than less common, as more and more people are flying. Hence the story this week about a man flying from Meizhou to Haikhou who delayed his Beijing Capital Airlines flight when he got curious about the emergency exit.
The Airbus A380 is the world’s largest passenger plane. Emirates is the world’s largest operator of A380s. And they offer one of the most luxe products in the sky.
Now Emirates is using an Airbus A380 for something completely different. It’s the world’s largest flower pot.
Park Hyatt Hyderabad is pricing its premium suites at the same rate as base rooms for stays December 10 through March 16. I see it for $138++ for a long weekend in February, for instance.
Of course I wouldn’t book additional travel right away. These are prepaid, non-refundable rates but I’d still wait to see whether the hotel has seller’s remorse over such a great deal.
American has no liability for a breach of any duty of good faith and fair dealing. With a bit of schadenfreude, then, I note that American Airlines lost its $2 million lawsuit against Century Link because of the latter’s terms and conditions disclaiming liability for anything other than willful misconduct.
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American Express offered a 25% bonus on transfers of Membership Rewards points to Alitalia Millemiglia in October.
Now through December 31 they’re offering a 40% bonus on transfers.
Turkish Airlines is offering 40% off all economy and business class tickets booked today for travel from the U.S. through April 15. There are even times where 8 or more business and economy award seats are available as well!
All destinations except Turkey and Northern Cyprus (which Turkey claims as its own) are on sale at 40% off.
Through Monday night American is offering an additional 20% on purchased miles — on top of the mileage purchase bonus they’re already running. Maxing out the bonus means buying 270,000 miles for $4786.88, or 1.77 cents apiece.
Idaho Senator Larry Craig was once arrested in a Minneapolis St. Paul airport restroom for having too wide a stance.
Senator Larry Craig’s incident is now memorialized with… an award for America’s best bathroom.
For travel throughout most of 2017 you can fly Singapore Airlines between Los Angeles and Tokyo for less than $500 roundtrip. In fact, the fare is really available, it’s not hard to find.
What makes this fare really interesting to me is that Singapore Airlines economy is pretty darned civilized as far as economy long haul travel goes. I personally wouldn’t want to contemplate China Eastern or United economy for that long a trip.
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