News and notes from around the interweb:
- Virgin Atlantic is selling off its wine if it were wine collections from Singapore or Emirates I’d be interested, and actually Qantas too (I have a soft spot for Australian wines).
- Supreme Court rules unanimously that Muslims placed on the no fly list as retaliation for being unwilling to serve as FBI informants can sue the agents who placed them on this ‘pre-crime profiling list’ under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
- Anchorage airport formally receives expanded international passenger transfer rights
- Qantas Frequent Flyer pushes off its earnings growth target by two years
- In 2021, Platinum and Reserve Delta SkyMiles American Express Card Members will receive a 25% boost to their status boosts.
- Such a strange time to do this, Star Alliance member Avianca LifeMiles will reduce mileage-earning on most fares, going revenue-based in 2021. Gutting the program during a pandemic with demand now seems questionable at best.
However this doesn’t affect the reason you should care about the program, which is points transfers from bank programs and cheap mileage purchases to use redeeming for Star Alliance premium cabin award tickets.
- Tokyo capsule hotel gets in on the ‘work from hotel’ craze though personally if I were going to do this I’d want more space than a capsule property provides…
I welcome the win against government blacklisting of otherwise free people.
This win in the Supreme Court mainly assists if the target of actual or threatened blacklisting can claim the blacklisting was related to religious affiliation/practice. It doesn’t do much of anything useful for those blacklisted or threatened with blacklisting who can’t successfully claim the blacklisting was an infringement on religious belief/practice.
All people on the no-fly list should have the opportunity to contest their status in court as a matter of due process.