Two American Airlines passengers met for the first time when they found themselves seated beside each other. There must have been an instant attraction. They both decided to order wine during drink service. And, inhibitions relaxed, they decided to put their feelings on display for the rest of the cabin, “all over each other” in the words of the passenger seated beside them. The man started massaging the woman’s feet.
How To Sabotage A Trip – And Your Relationship – At The Same Time
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AI Is Changing Travel Blogs Completely, There Are Only 3 Kinds Of Human Content You’ll Still Read
The parent company of The Points Guy, Red Ventures, has been using AI to write articles on some of the sites that it owns like CNet and Bankrate. The tools for this aren’t very good yet – they produce numerous errors – but they will become good soon.
Biden Nominee To Run FAA Forced To Withdraw From Consideration
President Biden’s nominee to head the FAA, Denver airport chief Phil Washington, has withdrawn from the nomination process. I was, frankly, surprised to see him re-nominated in January after a Democrat-controlled Senate saw him as too vulnerable to move forward with a hearing in 2022. And though he led the Biden Presidential campaign’s Department of Transportation transition, he hardly seemed the best fit for the role.
Marriott Key Bridge Site Has Been Condemned In Interest Of Public Safety
The Marriott Key Bridge was the second Marriott hotel ever, and was the oldest Marriott hotel when it closed in July 2021.
Originally opened in 1959 as the Key Bridge Motor Inn, it was located in Rosslyn just across the river from Washington D.C. It featured a fantastic view, as a result, and in its history hosted both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. In recent times it played host to the homeless.
Marriott Now Charges Up To 150,000 Points Per Night For Award Stays
When Marriott launched the Bonvoy program in 2018 the most expensive redemption for any hotel was 60,000 points. Then they introduced ‘high and low season’ pricing and a new more expensive category 8, pushing up the most expensive reward to 100,000 points.
A year ago they abolished award charts altogether and promised only that price increases would be muted in the first year of the new system. Now that the first year has passed, gloves and constraints are off, and properties can cost up to 150,000 points per night.
Wide Open Award Space For The Etihad A380 First Apartment Starting In July
Etihad’s Airbus A380 is returning to the skies, and with it their “First Apartment” which are among the most impressive inflight suites in the world. And award space is currently wide open on the London Heathrow – Abu Dhabi route with as many as 9 award seats per flight in some cases (book the whole cabin), and up to two daily flights on the aircraft.
Hawaii Close To A Decision To Stop Marketing Tourism [Roundup]
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American Airlines Teases New Route To Singapore In Employee Leak
At an internal employee ‘Crew News’ question and answer session, American Airlines Vice President of Network Planning Brian Znotins shared that the airline is looking at Singapore as a new destination.. This service would become possible once the airline begins taking delivery of new Boeing 787-9s it has on order, currently slated for next year.
71 Year Old Deaf Passenger Has Arm Broken By Police During Austin Airport Layover
A 71 year old deaf Florida woman was connecting in Austin enroute to Seattle. She was a nervous flyer traveling alone for the first time in her life. Her hearing aid wasn’t working well, and wound up spending 3 days in jail and having her arm broken by police after she was unable to hear instructions from a gate agent – and asked twice to get on an earlier flight.