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Man Has Airline Status Yanked for Refunding Tickets After Using Airport Lounges. Now He’s Suing

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Jun 22 2018

An Air Canada Super Elite who takes over 150 flights a year says his business travel plans change often. Air Canada says he books refundable tickets, uses their lounges, and then cancels his tickets on days he never intends to fly at all.

If you’re near the airport and have lounge access you may think it’s just a free pub with bar snacks. But Air Canada and this frequent flyer are now locked in a legal battle that would never even exist in the United States.

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Travel is Better for the Environment When You’re Getting a Good Deal on Airfare

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Jun 11 2018

Air travel emits carbon dioxide. More demand for air travel supports more flights, and thus more carbon dioxide emissions.

While the interaction of emissions and temperature change is complex, the particular mechanisms subject to debate amongst scientists, a simple model suggests that your air travel is bad for the environment. But it simply isn’t true that every airline passenger and every ticket has the same contribution to emissions.

And we do know whether you have a high – or an exceptionally low – probability of affecting the number of flights, size of aircraft, and thus emissions.

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Dumbest Criminal Baggage Handlers in History Stole Computers From Rural School Kids

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Jan 25 2018

What happens when your cross the worst baggage handlers with the US mail? You get computers stolen from rural school children.

These brain surgeons used a a Ravn truck to move the items they were stealing from the post office to the employee parking lot where they moved goods straight into their cars, and then gave items to family members and co-workers and kept other items in their homes.

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