Severe Turbulence Sends Meal Trays And Passenger Flying, Injures 14 on Korean Air Mongolia Flight

by Gary Leff

Aug 07 2024

On August 4, Korean Air flight 197 from Seoul to Ulaanbaatar encountered severe turbulence injuring 14 passengers and crew about one hour after departure from Incheon Airport, while flying near Tianjin Airport in China at an altitude of 34,100 feet.

The turbulence struck suddenly during the meal service, causing trays and unsecured items to be thrown about the cabin. Passengers described the scene as chaotic, and a passenger hit their head on the ceiling before falling into the aisle.

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Delta Passenger’s Shocking Mess: Brown Smears and Tiny Bolivian Flags Found on Seat!

by Gary Leff

Aug 07 2024

A Delta Air Lines passenger left their seat in a shocking state after a flight on Monday. There was food waste, brown smears, a ripped up safety card – and something that looks like a tiny version of the flag of Bolivia left in and around the seat. The passenger just got up and left at the end of the flight, blissfully unaware of their own chaos like Mr. Bean.

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United Airlines Axes Hemisphere Inflight Magazine, The End Of “Three Perfect Days”

by Gary Leff

Aug 07 2024

Delta’s outsourced Sky magazine laid off all its staff at the start of the pandemic. American, which outsourced American Way starting with US Airways management’s takeover in 2015, followed suit a year later despite The Onion once suggesting that the airline stop flying passengers to focus on its core magazine business.

And now United Airlines has followed suit axing its Hemispheres magazine from seatback pockets.

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Hyatt Elites Get 4 Months Of Free American Airlines Status, And A Shot At Top Tier Elite

by Gary Leff

Aug 06 2024

Overall I find American’s offers too complicated, but many Hyatt elites should take advantage of them anyway – for the short-term status, or longer-term since it’s easy to generate loyalty points via credit card spend and online shopping – and there’s no fee associated with the offer when it comes though the Hyatt partnership.

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Bobby Witt Jr.’s Shocking Problem: $289 Million Baseball Contract And Can’t Get Enough Marriott Points

by Gary Leff

Aug 06 2024

I see claims all the time in social media that ‘if you’re rich you don’t care about points’. That isn’t true. There are people who don’t care about points, but I’ve known plenty of wealthy people who do. I’ve helped centimillionaires several times over maximize their points and book award travel. And I’ve helped Hollywood celebrities do it, too.

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Microsoft Says Delta Lying About Its Meltdown: It’s The Airline’s IT That Failed

by Gary Leff

Aug 06 2024

When Delta’s systems melted down, they lost track of crew. They were making announcements in terminals looking for pilots who could work. Their crew scheduling systems collapsed. It took days for those systems to catch up, running several instances in parallel (which caused its own problems, as those systems needed to sync). The meltdown was caused by crew scheduling system failures and that system was IBM, not Microsoft according to Satya Nadella and Microsoft’s lawyers.

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