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Internet Startup Gives Free Vacations to Employees Off Credit Card Spend and more...  In This Issue...  Internet Startup Gives Free Vacations to Employees Off Credit Card Spend  Why Male Uber Drivers Make More and Pilot Pleads Guilty to Flying Drunk  United Eliminating Bloody Mary and Mimosa Carts and Wine Carts from Polaris Business Class  Limited-Time: United Credit Card With Waived First Year Fee and Increased Bonus  Airline Forces College Student to Flush Her Emotional Support Hamster Down Toilet  Marriott Increasing Points Prices of Over 1000 Hotels Should Strike Fear in the Hearts of SPG Members  Did Southwest Steal $25,000 in Donations From a Mechanic They Fired?  Orlando’s Airport Considers Kicking Out the TSA  More Recent Articles Internet Startup Gives Free Vacations to Employees Off Credit Card Spend A tech startup is getting attention for giving away vacations to its employees. They insist that's not extravagant because they're using points. However they're doing it wrong. Continue reading Internet Startup Gives Free Vacations to Employees Off Credit Card Spend...          • Email to a friend •   Why Male Uber Drivers Make More and Pilot Pleads Guilty to Flying Drunk 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 Why Male Uber Drivers Make More and Pilot Pleads Guilty to Flying Drunk...          • Email to a friend •   United Eliminating Bloody Mary and Mimosa Carts and Wine Carts from Polaris Business Class United is eliminating their mimosa/bloody mary carts and wine carts from Polaris business class effective May 1. That should speed up service, which is great. It should also reduce consumption, which is great for United's costs. Continue reading United Eliminating Bloody Mary and Mimosa Carts and Wine Carts from Polaris Business Class...          • Email to a friend •   Limited-Time: United Credit Card With Waived First Year Fee and Increased Bonus Chase is now waiving the first year fee on the United Explorer Card. And for a limited-time they've also boosted the signup bonus back to 50,000 bonus miles after $3,000 spend on purchases in the first 3 months. This is only available through March 15. (After the $0 first year annual fee it is then $95.) Even if the annual fee applied in the first year, the card would be well worth the signup bonus. The card is even worth the fee if you fly United semi-regularly for the benefits. If you find yourself buying basic economy fares you're not just saving on checked bag fees each trip but on the fare buy up too and still getting to bring your carry on bag onboard. Continue reading Limited-Time: United Credit Card With Waived First Year Fee and Increased Bonus...          • Email to a friend •   Airline Forces College Student to Flush Her Emotional Support Hamster Down Toilet A college student says that Spirit Airlines told her when she made her flight reservation that she could bring her emotional support hamster named Pebbles onboard the plane. She bought Pebbles after a golf ball-sized lump developed on her neck and led to a cancer scare. She traveled to have the growth removed, and brought her hamster with her. Spirit acknowledges that their agent told the woman this would be ok. ... Continue reading Airline Forces College Student to Flush Her Emotional Support Hamster Down Toilet...          • Email to a friend •   Marriott Increasing Points Prices of Over 1000 Hotels Should Strike Fear in the Hearts of SPG Members Devaluation just seems to be in their bones on the Marriott side, and the Starwood merger and Starwood Preferred Guest leadership appear not to have changed that. While they announced a reasonable set of category changes for Starwood the changes at Marriott are absolutely brutal: 21% of hotels are going up in category while just 5% are going down in category. The number of points required to redeem for a free Marriott hotel night is going up at over 1000 hotels effective March 6th. Continue reading Marriott Increasing Points Prices of Over 1000 Hotels Should Strike Fear in the Hearts of SPG Members...          • Email to a friend •   Did Southwest Steal $25,000 in Donations From a Mechanic They Fired? An arbitrator ordered that a Southwest Airlines maintenance worker be re-instated and given back pay -- minus funds he received during the time he wasn't employed by Southwest. That means his income from a job with an aviation school credits against the wages he would have earned. And it includes $25,000 donated to him via a GoFundme page. Continue reading Did Southwest Steal $25,000 in Donations From a Mechanic They Fired?...          • Email to a friend •   Orlando’s Airport Considers Kicking Out the TSA Efficiency arguments aside we need this for accountability. It's important to separate safety regulation from screening. The TSA shouldn't be supervising itself. They should be focused on setting standards and monitoring compliance, and shouldn't be certifying and monitoring themselves. TSA as its own regulator creates conflict and it creates poor performance. 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