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Airlines Are Being Pressured To Deny Boarding To Pregnant Women Coming To The U.S.

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May 15 2024

Airlines don’t want you to give birth on the plane, so they have special policies for pregnant women approaching their due date. It’s common, for instance, to require a doctor’s note for travel within four weeks of the woman’s due date stating that she’s fit to fly. However immigration attorney Brad Bernstein says that airlines have been told not to allow non-resident women who are “heavily pregnant” to fly to the United States because there’s a risk they’ll give birth here. It’s legal for a foreign woman to give birth in the United States If she’s coming here for the purpose of giving birth that’s illegal However the child still becomes a citizen, and allows for priority in their eventually sponsoring relatives to come to the U.S. as well. Enilria is not surprised, noting that…

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Onboard Brawl: Man Attacks Seatmate Over Air Vent Dispute

May 15 2024

Two passengers on board a Zipair flight got into a fight over the air vents above their seats. The man in the window seat wanted to turn it on, while the passenger at the aisle wanted it off. He got mad, slapped away the hand on the vent and eventually punched the window seat passenger. There was nobody seated in the middle.

Which passenger controls the air vent?

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Alaska Airlines Tips Its Hand For Plan After Buying Hawaiian Airlines

May 13 2024

Alaska Airlines is buying Hawaiian Airlines, unless the government stops them. They’re paying more than three times the Hawaiian share price at the time the deal was announced, and the real question is… why? This is a great deal for Hawaiian’s shareholders. Hawaiian Airlines frequent flyers will get more valuable miles out of the deal. There will probably be some reduction in seats flying between the Hawaiian islands, but that’s happening anyway as Southwest Airlines pulls back. Southwest saturated the market. Alaska is picking up planes, pilots, and experience flying to Asia Pacific destinations which the Seattle-based carrier has never done before. It doesn’t do any long haul flying. There just isn’t that much else for Alaska in the deal. A Honolulu hub that has no moat. Mainland – Hawaii flying is highly competitive, with…

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Revealed: The Disturbing Secrets of Who Owns London’s Hyatt Regency Hotels

May 11 2024

Would ownership of the property influence your decision to stay or not stay? Would the details of who seems to own this property in particular dissuade you from staying there?

Ownership structures are frequently obscured, including in this case, and especially in certain places like London. If you chose not to stay here, how much due diligence would you do on alternate lodging?

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Bilt Rewards Expands: Hilton Honors Added as Latest Transfer Partner – What It Means for You

May 08 2024

Bilt Rewards has added Hilton Honors as a transfer partner. Just like with their addition of Marriott as a transfer partner in the fall, it doesn’t add much to the program. It’s not that Hilton Honors points aren’t valuable, it’s that everything at Hilton is inflated by a factor of three or four – on both the earning and the redemption side – and that balances out fine except when transferring points 1:1. (Bilt requires a 2,000 point minimum transfer for base members, and 1,000 points for elites.) First transfers from Bilt to Hilton through June 8th receive 1,000 bonus Hilton points. That’s worth about $4, and doesn’t make up for 1:1 simply not being a worthwhile transfer ratio to Hilton. Crockfords, Las Vegas Bilt points now transfer to all of the major U.S.-based hotel…

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Get Free 90 Days Of Hilton Honors Elite Status (Just 8 Nights To Keep It Through March 2026)

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Apr 28 2024

Hilton Honors offers free 90 days of status to anyone with current elite status in a major hotel program that has stayed at a hotel at least once in the last 24 months. Then, if you stay with them you can keep or upgrade the status – valid for nearly two full years at this point.

The offer has been available for some time but it’s just been changed.

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