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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Lufthansa Sticks it to Berlin, Hotel Credit Card Scam, and Hawaii Airfares Will Fall and more...

A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips. Continue reading Lufthansa Sticks it to Berlin, Hotel Credit Card Scam, and Hawaii Airfares ...

 

Lufthansa Sticks it to Berlin, Hotel Credit Card Scam, and Hawaii Airfares Will Fall and more...



Lufthansa Sticks it to Berlin, Hotel Credit Card Scam, and Hawaii Airfares Will Fall

A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.

Continue reading Lufthansa Sticks it to Berlin, Hotel Credit Card Scam, and Hawaii Airfares Will Fall...

        
 

Terrible Farce: NAACP Issues Travel Warning Against American Airlines

The NAACP, co-founded by the legendary W. E. B. Du Bois, was one of the most important organizations — not just civil rights organizations — in the history of America. It's pursued some of the most important lawsuits in the country, and did incredibly important work fighting Jim Crow laws.

We need an NAACP, even one tilting at the windmill of everyone's passenger experience onboard commercial airlines. But suggesting that American Airlines is targeting African Americans for discrimination is simply unsupported by any of the facts offered, and runs counter to many of the facts available.

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90,000 Mile Signup Bonus for Virgin Atlantic MasterCard is Back

I've had the Bank of America-issued Virgin Atlantic MasterCard several times over the years. The card is back with a signup bonus of up to 90,000 miles.

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Full Menu for the About-to-Open Philadephia Centurion Lounge.. and Lounge Opening Gift?

As American Express prepares to open its 8th Centurion lounge in Philadelphia by the end of the month near gate A14 in terminal A-West I reached out to find out what the full menu would look like.

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Broken Toilets are Keeping an Airline From Adding Seats to Their Planes

One of the ways airlines are squeezing more seats onto planes is by shrinking the lavatories. It's part of American's plan for 30 inch pitch coach on Boeing 737 MAX aircraft (and eventually retrofitting their existing 737s with more seats, too).

JetBlue is adding seats to their planes, though not quite as many, and they too are shrinking the lavs.

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United Just Announced a New Head of MileagePlus

United announced Luc Bondar as the new Vice President, Loyalty. He'll take over from Praveen Sharma who will be Vice President, Digital Products and Analytics. Praveen has been doing double duty for some months.

He'll officially start November 1, the day of the program's next devaluation.

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Federal Government Blinks on Real ID: Your Drivers License Will Be Allowed for Travel After January

The Real ID Act regulates, among other things, what state identification will be valid for federal purposes. Those federal purposes including identifying oneself to the Transportation Security Administration in order to board commercial aircraft. And several state drivers licenses do not comply with those rules. But DHS appears to largely have blinked on refusing these state IDs at security checkpoints next year.

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New Trump Hotels: a Southern Plantation and a Converted Rodeway Inn

There's news on the launch of two new Trump hotel brands first revealed in June.

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