The one 'special feature' I enjoy most out of American Express U.S. lounges is the "wine wall" in San Francisco. I never drink wine onboard in domestic first class, and don't touch the house wines in US airline lounges. I love nice wines but don't drink ...

All New Wines Worth Tasting in the San Francisco Centurion Lounge and more...  In This Issue...  All New Wines Worth Tasting in the San Francisco Centurion Lounge  United’s Pilot Pimp Escapes Jail Time  American Airlines New Iceland Flight Undermines Their Case Against Emirates, Etihad, and Qatar  2nd Minute Suites in Atlanta Airport and Why You Shouldn’t Fly Spirit  Two People Got Married Inside an American Airlines Admirals Club This Morning  Booking Throwaway Tickets to Reduce the Price of Star Alliance Awards  Delta Will Start Limiting SkyClub Member Access to Same Day Delta/Partner Airline Passengers  Senate Tax Bill Contains a Stealth Attack on Emirates, Etihad, and Qatar  More Recent Articles All New Wines Worth Tasting in the San Francisco Centurion Lounge The one 'special feature' I enjoy most out of American Express U.S. lounges is the "wine wall" in San Francisco. I never drink wine onboard in domestic first class, and don't touch the house wines in US airline lounges. I love nice wines but don't drink for its own sake. The great thing about the wine wall is that they serve better wines than you'd expect in a lounge and it's an opportunity to be introduced to some new bottles you may not have tried before. Continue reading All New Wines Worth Tasting in the San Francisco Centurion Lounge...          • Email to a friend •   United’s Pilot Pimp Escapes Jail Time Last year Houston-based United Airlines pilot Bruce Wayne Wallis was arrested for running "a string of brothels in apartment complexes throughout Houston." He had "a half-dozen brothel apartments with six to 10 women in each one." The women paid him "$400 a week to ply their trade." Continue reading United’s Pilot Pimp Escapes Jail Time...          • Email to a friend •   American Airlines New Iceland Flight Undermines Their Case Against Emirates, Etihad, and Qatar American Airlines will launch seasonal Dallas Fort Worth - Reykjavik service next summer. This is the third non-stop in the market following Wow Air and Icelandair. This is a purely leisure route where two ultra low cost carriers have already entered the market. And both Wow Air and Icelandair offer connections beyond Iceland while American Airlines does not. Continue reading American Airlines New Iceland Flight Undermines Their Case Against Emirates, Etihad, and Qatar...          • Email to a friend •   2nd Minute Suites in Atlanta Airport and Why You Shouldn’t Fly Spirit 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 2nd Minute Suites in Atlanta Airport and Why You Shouldn’t Fly Spirit...          • Email to a friend •   Two People Got Married Inside an American Airlines Admirals Club This Morning Asking someone to marry you inflight is seriously overdone. El Al even lets you redeem miles for an inflight marriage proposal kit. Getting married on a plane is a little better. There's no real reason you have to tie the knot up in the air though. Because if you can clear security, you might as well get married inside your airline's lounge like Julie Kay & Vince Bonnetti did this morning in Nashville! Continue reading Two People Got Married Inside an American Airlines Admirals Club This Morning...          • Email to a friend •   Booking Throwaway Tickets to Reduce the Price of Star Alliance Awards ANA is a Star Alliance airline based in Japan. For the most part you can use their miles to redeem the same awards you can get with United miles, but they charge fewer miles for those awards. And American Express Membership Rewards points transfer to ANA. And while ANA does add fuel surcharges to awards, those are very low or non-existent for flights to Japan and North Asia and they don't add fuel surcharges to awards on Air Canada, Air New Zealand, or Etihad. Yes, they partner with Etihad and other airlines outside of Star Alliance too. Cancelling and redepositing miles costs just 3000 miles (rather than cash). Continue reading Booking Throwaway Tickets to Reduce the Price of Star Alliance Awards...          • Email to a friend •   Delta Will Start Limiting SkyClub Member Access to Same Day Delta/Partner Airline Passengers Four years ago Delta raised the price of SkyClub memberships, and started requiring those with access via credit card to pay for guests. This was all being done for you. Delta is introducing new access restrictions effective January 1, 2019. Regardless of how you access SkyClubs, you will need to be flying Delta or a partner airline. Simply flying any airline same day will not be enough. Continue reading Delta Will Start Limiting SkyClub Member Access to Same Day Delta/Partner Airline Passengers...          • Email to a friend •   Senate Tax Bill Contains a Stealth Attack on Emirates, Etihad, and Qatar You might have thought that the crux of Senate tax reform legislation was whether to eliminate a slew of tax deductions while reducing rates on various taxpayers. But it's also a Christmas tree of special interest items that can be achieved through the tax code. Delta's Senator, Johnny Isakson of Georgia, stuck a provision into the Senate tax reform bill that's currently under consideration and it's considered a stealthy under the radar attack on the Gulf airlines. Continue reading Senate Tax Bill Contains a Stealth Attack on Emirates, Etihad, and Qatar...          • Email to a friend •   More Recent Articles Warren Buffett Lost Over $1 Billion on the Airlines, Basic Economy Passengers Have it Worse New Credit Card Virtual Account Numbers and Airline Executive Art Thief       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.