Two grandparents traveling with their 11 month old grandson were met by police on arrival in Detroit on Sunday after a flight attendant reported them for human trafficking.
They had flown in from Punta Cana, where the grandmother had spoken at a conference. Dee Dee Ohara Blizard is Black, and her husband is Japanese. And the child’s skin color looks different than theirs. That appears to have raised alarms with Delta cabin crew.
Every piece on the new DC lounge highlights the fireplace feature of the lounge. It helps make the space. However American Airlines has shut off the fireplace in the lounge, staff say, ‘for the environment’.
All of the great strategies for keeping people from sitting next to you on Southwest, so you can have an empty middle, don’t work when a flight attendant calls out passengers for trying. One passenger films herself trying to avoid passengers who might sit in her row. And you can hear a flight attendant announcing not to try.
Cardless is launching a TAP Air Portugal Miles & Go American Express card. They haven’t released a lot of the product details yet, but it’ll be interesting to have this Star Alliance airline enter the U.S. co-brand market. They had just starting making an unfortunately-timed big push for U.S. customers right at the start of the pandemic, with easy access to inexpensive miles and Star Alliance Gold status. So this could be interesting.
American Airlines flight attendants are sticking “We Are Ready” tags on their bags, highlighting a willingness to strike for a better contract. But flight attendants aren’t actually ready.
Australian actor Chris Hemsworth, best known for portraying Thor in Marvel films, is getting roasted online for posting video traveling with his daughter in Emirates first class.
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With an increase in Admirals Club membership fees and premium credit card annual fee American Airlines is investing more in the food in its lounges. The offerings still significantly lag what you’ll find in a Delta Air Lines Sky Club, but they’re better than they used to be.
The airline’s food (whether in lounge or in air) isn’t a reason not to book American, and I suppose that’s what they’re going for.
What Delta forgot about its customers, but has since been reminded: if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out immediately. However, if the frog is placed in tepid water that is then brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. You’re the frog.
The Miami airport Skytrain, which operates inside of the American Airlines D concourse, is offline – and it may not be back for months. Three piers showed deterioration in the concrete, according to engineers. Two golf carts are available to transport passengers in a terminal that sees 80,000 per day. The walk from one end to the other is a mile.
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