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Thursday, March 15, 2018

New Freedom 5x Earning Categories, Act Now and more...

One of the great combinations in credit cards is Chase's no annual fee Freedom card with other Chase cards, using their 5 points per dollar quarterly categories to ultimately earn an extra 24,000 points that will transfer to airline miles and hotel ...

 

New Freedom 5x Earning Categories, Act Now and more...



New Freedom 5x Earning Categories, Act Now

One of the great combinations in credit cards is Chase's no annual fee Freedom card with other Chase cards, using their 5 points per dollar quarterly categories to ultimately earn an extra 24,000 points that will transfer to airline miles and hotel points.

Continue reading New Freedom 5x Earning Categories, Act Now...

        
 

American Passenger Fiddles With Liquid Pipe, Tells Seatmate Their 737 is Gonna Explode

American Airlines flight 1316 from Chicago – Sacramento turned around on Friday after a passenger started talking about a bomb and fiddling with a liquid filled pipe and battery.

Passenger Michael Bielinski reportedly tapped the woman beside him on the shoulder. He told her "we're all going to die" and the "plane is going to explode."

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Eastern Airlines Makes a Comeback, Because Version 3 is Just What No One Needed

Captain Eddie Rickenbacker was a World War I flying ace who led Eastern Airlines in its early years. Eastern was one of the big four airlines created by the "Spoils Conference," where airlines colluded with the federal government to carve up the market by allocating air mail subsidies. Eastern became a dominant carrier up and down the East Coast.

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American and Chicago O’Hare Make Peace at Last Minute

United Airlines has 14 more gates than American at Chicago O'Hare. American is opening 5 new gates that they paid for, reducing the gap to 9. But the new O'Hare expansion plan re-opens the gap and returns United to a 14 gate advantage.

After escalating things by FOIAing communications between the Chicago's Mayor and United this week — and as the city was scheduled to approve the plan, American's lack of assent notwithstanding — there are now reports of a stand down and a deal.

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Brazilian Gang Watches Goodfellas, Robs Lufthansa Flight of $5 Million

In 1978 nearly $6 million was robbed from Lufthansa at New York JFK -- in what was then the largest cash robbery ever in the United States.

The heist was investigated for over 35 years, even leading to an arrest in 2014 of a purported high-ranking member of the Bonanno crime family, however the then-78 year old man was acquitted. Much of the proceeds of the Lufthansa robbery were said to have been gambled away in casinos.

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United: Don’t Blame the Flight Attendant For Killing That Dog, Have a Bright Bag Tag Instead

Yesterday we learned that United required a passenger to put her dog in the overhead bin on a flight from Houston to New York LaGuardia, and the dog died.

Although a flight attendant did insist the woman put her dog in the overhead bin for the flight, United wants us to know that it's not really the flight attendant's fault.

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Holy Crud, United Just Sent a Kansas Family’s Dog to Japan by Mistake

It was only yesterday that news came out United required a passenger to put her dog in the overhead bin on a flight from Houston to New York LaGuardia, and the dog died.

Now it turns out United accidentally sent a Kansas family's dog to Japan.

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