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It’s often been said that there are two kinds of luggage: carry on and lost. Add a third kind to the mix… damaged.
When you check a bag your things may get stolen. Employees may hide drugs in your luggage.
This morning I wrote about customers at the San Diego airport being told — at the end of Comic-con — that they wouldn’t be allowed to put comic books in checked luggage.
The TSA reached out to me with the Shaggy Defense. Wasn’t them.
One of my cousins booked a United MileagePlus award to Warsaw. She was meeting her brother there — he booked an award, too, in business class. She doesn’t have as many miles, she was in coach.
She was booked on a double connection via Newark and Zurich. Weather was slowing down air traffic in the Northeast.
United CEO Oscar Munoz’s statements now suggest he’s happy with the quality of service his airline provides.
Delta, American, and United want to be protected from competition because they’re afraid it will hurt their business. But that’s the point — it will, unless they improve to compete. Acting as a quasi-public utility is a recipe for a continuation of the status quo, and no customer should want that.
We all know what happened when musician Dave Carroll checked his guitar on a United flight. Perhaps that’s the reason why Michael Bont of Greensky Bluegrass flew American.
That didn’t work out well for him.
United Airlines hasn’t just come under criticism for how it treats its human passengers, it’s received recent attention for how it (mis)treats animals as well. The biggest story was that the airline reportedly locked the World’s Biggest Rabbit in a freezer for hours and them cremated it without permission.
And United just screwed up another pet transport.
This morning’s outrage getting play online and on television appears to be about a soldier on his way home to the U.S. with “military issued duffel filled with combat gear” in his checked bags. United charged him an overweight baggage fee. And they were right.
Trey Harris suffers from a spinal condition which impairs his ability to walk and gets around on a segway.
While planning his honeymoon, he says he spoke to the TSA and to United’s Special Needs desk and that both confirmed he’d be able to bring his segway onboard his flight….
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Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
