Feb
01
2025
Bilt Rewards is back with its Rent Day offers for February 1. The headline here is up to a 100% transfer bonus to Star Alliance program Avianca LifeMiles.
TODAY: Up To 100% LifeMiles Transfer Bonus With Bilt
Starting Tuesday: Heathrow’s ‘One Stop Security’ Trial Lets Some U.S. Arrivals Skip Screening If They’re Connecting
Jan
31
2025
It appears that a new trial at London Heathrow airport will simplify international connections starting on Tuesday. Dubbed “One Stop Security,” the initiative will initially allow passengers arriving from the U.S. into terminal 3 to bypass the standard security check.
United’s Mixed Message: SEC Filing Says ‘Not Buying JetBlue’—Yet Silence On Asset Deals Raises Eyebrows
United Airlines has filed an SEC 8-K saying that they are not in negotiations or discussions (and have not been recently) regarding a merger or acquisition.
New United Airlines Filing Signals Headquarters Move To Denver—Is Chicago On the Way Out?
Jan
31
2025
A year ago United filed a “large development review” plan with the City of Denver that did include adding 12 flight simulators for pilot training, but also allow for a new corporate campus that would support 5,000 employees, enough to move all the workers at the current Chicago Willis Tower headquarters.
They’ve now revealed more details about how the land at 17671 E. 64th Avenue east of Pena Boulevard near Denver’s airport would be developed.
“She’d Race Into My Rooms Before Me To Steal Tips”: Marriott Housekeeper Catches Boss Red-Handed—Hotel Blamed A Guest
Jan
31
2025
A housekeeper at a Marriott hotel is complaining that all of her tips are being stolen. Guests are asked to tip, but the tips aren’t making it to the person who cleans their room. Instead, this employee says, their manager keeps going room to room to pick up the money before housekeepers enter, “she would race to get in my rooms before me to check if they were “vacant.”
FAA Bans Helicopters From Low Flying In Landing Path At Washington National Airport
Jan
31
2025
Wednesday night’s collision between an American Eagle regional jet landing at Washington’s National airport and a Black Hawk helicopter was absolutely devastating. A lot of information is coming out quickly about what happened.
‘Never Seen Anyone Tip A Flight Attendant Before’ – United Passenger’s $5 Trick Fueled Endless Gin & Tonics
Jan
31
2025
A passenger flying United Airlines from Charleston, South Carolina to Newark on Tuesday reported that a first class passenger “in his mid to late 50s” had tossed back “six to eight” gin and tonics and “he kept handing the flight attendant a $5 every time he brought him another one.”
Multiple Guests Claim ‘Poop-Soaked’ Mattresses At Marriott Hotel—Rooms Were ‘Cleaned And Inspected’
Jan
31
2025
A Marriott Knoxville guest reports getting to their room and discovering that the bed was “soaking wet with cleaning products…there was poop everywhere on the mattress.” But that wasn’t all.
American Airlines Crisis Response Reaches Every Corner—Even Onboard Credit Card Sales Are Paused
Jan
30
2025
Airlines have contingency plans for situations like this. American Airlines hasn’t experienced anything like flight 5342 in 23 years, but they update plans and train for it.
New Zealand To Israelis: Disclose Your Military Past Or Stay Out
Jan
30
2025
New Zealand does not impose an equivalent, conflict-specific questionnaire on visitors from Syria, Sudan, or other nations currently embroiled in conflict. Make of that what you will.
