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Lufthansa Sticks it to Berlin, Hotel Credit Card Scam, and Hawaii Airfares Will Fall and more...  In This Issue...  Lufthansa Sticks it to Berlin, Hotel Credit Card Scam, and Hawaii Airfares Will Fall  Terrible Farce: NAACP Issues Travel Warning Against American Airlines  90,000 Mile Signup Bonus for Virgin Atlantic MasterCard is Back  Full Menu for the About-to-Open Philadephia Centurion Lounge.. and Lounge Opening Gift?  Broken Toilets are Keeping an Airline From Adding Seats to Their Planes  United Just Announced a New Head of MileagePlus  Federal Government Blinks on Real ID: Your Drivers License Will Be Allowed for Travel After January  New Trump Hotels: a Southern Plantation and a Converted Rodeway Inn  More Recent Articles 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...          • Email to a friend •   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. Continue reading Terrible Farce: NAACP Issues Travel Warning Against American Airlines...          • Email to a friend •   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. Continue reading 90,000 Mile Signup Bonus for Virgin Atlantic MasterCard is Back...          • Email to a friend •   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. Continue reading Full Menu for the About-to-Open Philadephia Centurion Lounge.. and Lounge Opening Gift?...          • Email to a friend •   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. Continue reading Broken Toilets are Keeping an Airline From Adding Seats to Their Planes...          • Email to a friend •   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. Continue reading United Just Announced a New Head of MileagePlus...          • Email to a friend •   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. Continue reading Federal Government Blinks on Real ID: Your Drivers License Will Be Allowed for Travel After January...          • Email to a friend •   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. Continue reading New Trump Hotels: a Southern Plantation and a Converted Rodeway Inn...          • Email to a friend •   More Recent Articles United Now Lets You Check In for Partner Airline Segments With Its App Alaska Airlines Flight Delayed Because of a Seal on the Runway       Click here to safely unsubscribe from "View from the Wing." Click here to view mailing archives, here to change your preferences, or here to subscribe • Privacy Email subscriptions powered by FeedBlitz, LLC, 365 Boston Post Rd, Suite 123, Sudbury, MA 01776, USA.