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Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Are You Being Spied on in Your Hotel Room? Here's How to Check and more...

The number one thing that gives me security when I travel is obscurity, there's no one who wants to spy on me. I'm simply not important or valuable enough to be worth the effort. At the same time I assume any device I carry with me to China is ...

 

Are You Being Spied on in Your Hotel Room? Here’s How to Check and more...



Are You Being Spied on in Your Hotel Room? Here’s How to Check

The number one thing that gives me security when I travel is obscurity, there's no one who wants to spy on me. I'm simply not important or valuable enough to be worth the effort.

At the same time I assume any device I carry with me to China is compromised. And in many countries the room I'm staying in may be set up for monitoring because of other people who might stay there either before or after me. Business espionage is at least as common as national security espionage.

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25% Bonus on American Express Transfers to Air France KLM Flying Blue

American Express Membership Rewards is offering a 25% bonus on transfers to Air France KLM Flying Blue through June 15. It may be targeted because it only shows up for me when I log into my account.

Here's how to play it.

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Rare: American Airlines Business Class Award Space for the Family to Europe

Right now there's reasonably good business class award availability on American Airlines New York JFK - Barcelona in the fall and winter.

Impressively there are even dates where four award seats are available, so it's great not just for couples but for families too.

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Is Priority Pass Destroying the Benefit of Airport Lounge Access?

There's an axiom on the internet that the answer to any question in an article title is always "no."
And that's just the case here. The Wall Street Journal thinks otherwise but fails to make the case, though there's certainly more crowding in some lounges that's difficult to manage.

The case the Journal makes is that the rise of Priority Pass cards distributed with credit cards, especially Chase, have led to a decline in quality of airport lounges. That's false. The other major claim is they've made lounges more crowded, and that's true with some lounges.

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Marriott’s Timeshare Business Buys Hyatt Timeshares and the Starwood Timeshares Marriott Didn’t Want

Shortly before Starwood announced a deal to be acquired by Marriott it agreed to spin off its timeshare business into a separate company, Vistana, which it sold to Interactive Leisure Group or ILG. ILG now holds the vacation ownership businesses of Hyatt, Sheraton and Westin.

Marriott Vacations is now buying Interactive Leisure Group for $4.7 billion. So an affiliate of Marriott will wind up owning the Starwood timeshare business Marriott itself was believed not to want two and a half years ago as well as Hyatt's timeshare business.

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New JFK Lounge Opens Today and Airline Unions Play Out Monty Python Sketch

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.

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American Airlines Flight Attendants Rent Out Their Seniority for $200

Unionized flight attendants -- and flight attendants at airlines whose procedures mirror union work rules -- get to work the most desirable trips based on seniority. Senior flight attendants at large international airlines can jet away to Sydney, to Buenos Aires, to Paris while more junior flight attendants overnight in Des Moines.

American Airlines flight attendants have created a secondary market renting out their seniority. They sell prime trip assignments to junior flight attendants, reportedly on average for $200 per trip.

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Tragic Southwest 737 That Blew an Engine Two Weeks Ago Flew Again Today

Two weeks ago a Southwest Airlines flight from New York LaGuardia to Dallas Love Field made an emergency landing in Philadelphia after experiencing an uncontained engine failure.

The occurrence aircraft, N772SW, flew today from Philadelphia to Paine Field in Everett, Washington as SWA8700.

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