Former Biden Administration Official Has Been Stealing Luggage From Airports Since 2018

by Gary Leff

Feb 22 2023

A fashion designer had their bag stolen five years ago. They saw the story on television of the latest thefts on television, and saw photos of Brinton… wearing their custom-designed clothes that had been in the bag!

I don’t care about their personal life, I respect their activism, but mostly I worry that this has been going on for years and they require serious security clearance to be in charge of nuclear materials and it never came up – but the internet figured it out?

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Details Of New Chase “Sapphire Experience” At Austin Airport, Opening Next Month

by Gary Leff

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Feb 22 2023

It appears that Chase is taking over the outdoor deck that had been open to all passengers next to the Delta Sky Club near gate 1 at the East end of the terminal – and could be finished as soon as next month.

Food is “most likely pre-packed grab and go.” and “[w]ord on the street is that it’s a high end local taco spot that will be serving food.”

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Flight Attendant Demands To Know Why Passenger Needs The Bathroom, Says Her Answer Is Harassment

by Gary Leff

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Feb 22 2023

Right on the heels of that spicy flight attendant telling people they shouldn’t use the lavatory when they first board a plane, a JetBlue flight attendant confronts a passenger demanding to know why they could possibly need to use the lavatory since they’d spent a three hour delay in the terminal. And the crewmember even went so far as to claim airplane toilets don’t flush while the plane is on the ground.

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Bilt Targets 5x Earning To Lock In Customer Spend With Amazon, Food Delivery, And Cell Phone/Internet

by Gary Leff

Feb 22 2023

This is highly valuable to me personally. It makes the Bilt Mastercard the most lucrative card for Amazon spend (more valuable than the 5% back Amazon Visa because I value Bilt points at a minimum of 1.7 cents apiece) and the most lucrative for food delivery as well.

But I’m most interested in the strategy because of what these spending categories have in common.

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United Airlines Change Means They Can Ban Customers Who Complain Too Much About Delays

by Gary Leff

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Feb 21 2023

United Airlines has added language to its Contract of Carriage to say that they will not honor mistake fares, but that if you book one and incur non-refundable costs as a result they will reimburse those costs.

The airline also now says that booking flights likely to be delayed, and then complaining about the delays for compensation, is grounds to be banned from the MileagePlus frequent flyer program.

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How American Airlines Decides Which Flights To Delay And Cancel During Bad Weather

by Gary Leff

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Feb 21 2023

During a meeting with pilots last week, American Airlines Chief Operating Officer David Seymour reviewed the carrier’s recent performance from the holidays and February storms, noting that “[Dallas – Forth Worth airport] does not deal with ice that well.” DFW is known colloquially as ‘Doesn’t Function Wet.’

Kendall Lock, American’s Vice President for Airline Operations Technology, reviewed how the new HEAT system works to choose which flights to delay in order to end up cancelling fewer trips.

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