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Do You Know All the Hidden Benefits Your Credit Card Gives You?

by Gary Leff

Mar 16 2017

Premium credit cards offer a dizzying array of benefits you probably didn’t even realize you had — or if you knew at one point, you probably forget when there’s an opportunity to use them.

Break a new electronic device, smash your rental car, run into a merchant who won’t take a return… or the price of something you recently bought drops after you already bought and started using it… there’s something that your credit card company can often do and you get started with a simple phone call.

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Another Day More Cost-Cutting at British Airways: Crew Have to Clean Planes Themselves

by Gary Leff

Mar 07 2017

British Airways is trialing something new at London Gatwick on short haul flights, crew give planes a light clean during the time between flights instead of paying contracted cleaners. COST-cutting British Airways bosses are letting planes take-off with just a “light clean” and toilet waste-tanks unemptied. Crew members are being paid an extra £10 if they give the plane a quick tidy before departure, saving cash on paying contracted cleaners. Crew will be paid an additional £10 per flight segment, and the new standards mean that “a jet’s sewage tank is not always emptied. Instead they fly if it is up to a third full. In addition BA planes can now depart with just 50 per cent levels of drinkable water used for making tea and coffee.” British Airways considers this a test to “see…

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Another Airline Admits it Made a Mistake, Will Again Check Bags Through on Separate Tickets. Will American Relent Too?

by Gary Leff

Feb 26 2017

On June 1 the oneworld alliance (which includes airlines like American, British Airways, Iberia, Cathay Pacific, Qantas, and more) changed its policies so that member airlines no longer had to check bags to their final destination for passengers traveling on more than one reservation on a oneworld airline.

In December Cathay Pacific realized this was punitive, likely harming exactly the customers they didn’t want to inconvenience, and walked back the policy. Now oneworld member Qatar Airways is rolling back the policy as well, effective March 1.

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Soon You’re Going to Have to Shove Your Bag Into a Sizer at the Gate — And Jump On It

by Gary Leff

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Jan 20 2017

Many foreign airlines have strict limits for cabin baggage. Americans aren’t used to this, they can pretty much drag anything onboard that is going to fit in an overhead bin as long as there’s still bin space available and certainly US airlines don’t weigh your rollaboard.

Whether Air France or Virgin Australia, airlines around the world take a different approach even for business class passengers. I do my best to avoid check-in counters when I’ve got heavy bags. If I can get a boarding pass online I will. But if I need to approach the counter, and they see my bag, they’re going to want to weigh it.

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Etihad Becoming More Like American Airlines? Eliminating Through-Checked Bags on Separate Tickets

by Gary Leff

Jan 17 2017

Etihad will no longer allow through checking bags when traveling on separate reservations for tickets purchased February 1 onward.

Reportedly separate tickets that are sold into the same reservation will continue to allow through-checking of bags. Most separate tickets have separate reservations, but a competent travel agent can manage to include them in one PNR.

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American’s Status Challenges Now Require Minimum Spending, Allow You to Buy Temporary Status

by Gary Leff

Jan 03 2017

For a long time American AAdvantage has offered status ‘challenges’ that do not require you to already have status with another airline and that you pay for. These allow you to earn elite status more quickly with travel over a compressed period of time.

Now that American has introduced a revenue requirement for earning elite status in 2017, they’ve apparently revamped their elite status challenges.

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