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Frequent Flyer’s Scam Ends Badly and the Worst Gate in America and more...  In This Issue...  Frequent Flyer’s Scam Ends Badly and the Worst Gate in America  Air Travel in Real Life Comedy Sketch  Torture Prison Ritz-Carlton Riyadh Re-opens to Guests for a Very Special Valentine’s Day  IHG Guts Best Rate Guarantee, Eliminates Free Nights, Gives 24% Back in Points Instead  Rapper’s Manager Charged for Threatening to Off Flight Attendant’s Head, Claims Racism  Rumor: British Airways Ditching Plans for New Custom Business Class Seat  10 Uber Credit for Existing Users, Hurry Won't Last  Air India Considers Offering Laptops in Business Class to Make Up for Poor Inflight Entertainment  What’s in My Wallet, and the Strategy Behind It to Earn Rich Points and Perks  Starwood Offering Elite Status Challenges But Only Through June 30 Frequent Flyer’s Scam Ends Badly and the Worst Gate in America 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 Frequent Flyer’s Scam Ends Badly and the Worst Gate in America...          • Email to a friend •   Air Travel in Real Life Comedy Sketch Tripp and Tyler have a new 'in real life' video, along the lines of email in real life (4.2 million views) and every meeting ever (1.2 million views). The conceit is that passengers are all in an SUV driving but the experience is portrayed just like a flight. Continue reading Air Travel in Real Life Comedy Sketch...          • Email to a friend •   Torture Prison Ritz-Carlton Riyadh Re-opens to Guests for a Very Special Valentine’s Day In early November Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia moved to consolidate power, arresting senior princes, the wealthy, and former government leaders under the banner of a new anti-corruption campaign. The high profile prisoners were held inside the Ritz-Carlton Riyadh. All guests on property were unilaterally kicked out, reservations dishonored. But guests will apparently be welcomed back for Valentine's Day. Continue reading Torture Prison Ritz-Carlton Riyadh Re-opens to Guests for a Very Special Valentine’s Day...          • Email to a friend •   IHG Guts Best Rate Guarantee, Eliminates Free Nights, Gives 24% Back in Points Instead Hotel Best Rate Guarantees are mostly vaporware. Hotel chains want you to book directly through them because it costs them less to make a reservation themselves than it does to pay a commission to Expedia or other online travel sites (or travel agents). So they want you to believe you'll get the best rate booking direct. Best rate gurantees are largely a marketing claim rather than a promise, and they generally contain so much fine print and so many hoops as to be meaningless (on purpose). Continue reading IHG Guts Best Rate Guarantee, Eliminates Free Nights, Gives 24% Back in Points Instead...          • Email to a friend •   Rapper’s Manager Charged for Threatening to Off Flight Attendant’s Head, Claims Racism Rapper Rich the Kid touched down on an American Airlines flight at LAX on Tuesday and got up to use the lavatory while the plane taxied to the gate. A flight attendant told him to sit down. His road manager got into an argument with the flight attendant threatening to cut their head off. That's what it takes for American Airlines to deny charges of racial discrimination, it seems. Continue reading Rapper’s Manager Charged for Threatening to Off Flight Attendant’s Head, Claims Racism...          • Email to a friend •   Rumor: British Airways Ditching Plans for New Custom Business Class Seat You choose to fly British Airways business class when they have the best non-stop schedule to Heathrow and that's where you need to go, or for connecting destinations when they're the cheapest. While they were a leader in introducing fully flat business class seating, today they offer one of the worst flat business class products in the industry. Their Boeing 777s, for instance, are so dense they seat eight-across. Continue reading Rumor: British Airways Ditching Plans for New Custom Business Class Seat...          • Email to a friend •   10 Uber Credit for Existing Users, Hurry Won't Last In the Uber app go to Payment and scroll down to 'Add Promo/Gift Code'. I had no problem adding it to my account. This certainly won't last. Continue reading 10 Uber Credit for Existing Users, Hurry Won't Last...          • Email to a friend •   Air India Considers Offering Laptops in Business Class to Make Up for Poor Inflight Entertainment Air India knows its inflight entertainment offerings lag the industry. They also know that long haul business class loads hover around 50%. So they're considering giving out laptops to business class passengers. Continue reading Air India Considers Offering Laptops in Business Class to Make Up for Poor Inflight Entertainment...          • Email to a friend •   What’s in My Wallet, and the Strategy Behind It to Earn Rich Points and Perks Since I offer advice on earning frequent flyer miles, often with credit cards and sometimes other financial techniques, I think it's only fair to take an 'open kimono approach' with my own strategies. And the best way to do that is to share with you my wallet. Because that will shows you what I carry with me through my daily life, and is a great opportunity to explain my thinking about each choice I make -- a choice that's constrained by space and so reveals a lot about me. Continue reading What’s in My Wallet, and the Strategy Behind It to Earn Rich Points and Perks...          • Email to a friend •   Starwood Offering Elite Status Challenges But Only Through June 30 Starwood Preferred Guest eliminated elite status matches in March 2011 and replaced them with 'status challenges'. Status challenges let you earn status more quickly — fewer nights in a compressed period of time — though in Starwood's case they don't advance you the status while you're working on the challenge. Continue reading Starwood Offering Elite Status Challenges But Only Through June 30...          • Email to a friend •       Click here to safely unsubscribe from "View from the Wing." 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