Over the weekend I wrote that while the Platinum Card by American Express has a standard offer currently of 60,000 points after $5,000 in purchases within 3 months, some people can do even better than that -- 100,000 points through the CreditCards.com ...

How to Get the 100,000 Amex Platinum Offer From the CardMatch Tool and more...  In This Issue...  How to Get the 100,000 Amex Platinum Offer From the CardMatch Tool  Woman Dries Underwear Using Air Vent Above Her Seat  What are the Really Unique Benefits of Top Tier Airline Elite Status?  Passenger Forgets Laptop in the Lavatory, Winds Up in Oklahoma City  Passengers Chant ‘We Want a Bed’ During 15 Hour American Airlines Delay  Emergency Exit Door Falls Off, Airline Blames Passengers  Hyatt Regency Dallas Lost My Underwear (and Toothbrush)  More Recent Articles How to Get the 100,000 Amex Platinum Offer From the CardMatch Tool Over the weekend I wrote that while the Platinum Card by American Express has a standard offer currently of 60,000 points after $5,000 in purchases within 3 months, some people can do even better than that -- 100,000 points through the CreditCards.com CardMatch tool. There is some confusion over how to find it however. Continue reading How to Get the 100,000 Amex Platinum Offer From the CardMatch Tool...          • Email to a friend •   Woman Dries Underwear Using Air Vent Above Her Seat I think we may have just found the worst airline passenger ever who is going about her business oblivious to the concerns of others in the cabin. Every day passengers prop their bare feet up on the bulkhead. That's bad enough. But it's nothing in comparison. This woman decided to dry her underwear using the airplane vent above her seat. She really gets 'em up in there, too. Now I know why some airlines don't offer individual air vents. Continue reading Woman Dries Underwear Using Air Vent Above Her Seat...          • Email to a friend •   What are the Really Unique Benefits of Top Tier Airline Elite Status? Frequent flyer programs are really two separate and distinct efforts under the same banner: recognition and reward. Reward is mileage earning and redemption. Recognition consists of the (elite) benefits offered. In the U.S. airline programs are generous by world standards in offering unsold domestic premium cabin seats as upgrades. However they aren't as generous with service-oriented benefits. Continue reading What are the Really Unique Benefits of Top Tier Airline Elite Status?...          • Email to a friend •   Passenger Forgets Laptop in the Lavatory, Winds Up in Oklahoma City Last year flight attendant in my Facebook feed shared a story about a man taking such a long time in the lavatory that another passenger expressed concern and eventually the crew started to suspect a medical emergency. After much knocking he came out, iPad in hand. He went in there to watch a movie. No, they didn't confirm what kind of movie. But what happens when the passenger comes out of the lavatory, but leaves their device inside? Continue reading Passenger Forgets Laptop in the Lavatory, Winds Up in Oklahoma City...          • Email to a friend •   Passengers Chant ‘We Want a Bed’ During 15 Hour American Airlines Delay Passengers protest an American Airlines 15 hour delay in Miami chanting a demand for hotel rooms in Spanish. The lesson here is simple -- and it isn't specific to American Airlines, the same situations arise with any airline -- book your flights with a premium credit card that comes with trip delay coverage. Get your own room and send the bill to your credit card company. Continue reading Passengers Chant ‘We Want a Bed’ During 15 Hour American Airlines Delay...          • Email to a friend •   Emergency Exit Door Falls Off, Airline Blames Passengers Nigerian carrier Dana Air is blaming passengers for an emergency exit door falling off one of its planes during landing. The incident occurred on one of the airline's five peak daily MD83 departures last Wednesday from Lagos to Abuja, Nigeria. Here's video from inside the cabin where the door went missing. Continue reading Emergency Exit Door Falls Off, Airline Blames Passengers...          • Email to a friend •   Hyatt Regency Dallas Lost My Underwear (and Toothbrush) One of my hotel pet peeves is late check out where the property still keys me for a noon check-out. That's what I thought happened at first at the Hyatt Regency Dallas. But it turned out to be far more complicated. Continue reading Hyatt Regency Dallas Lost My Underwear (and Toothbrush)...          • Email to a friend •   More Recent Articles What's Grosser Than Gross? Here's How Airlines Clean Check-in Kiosks (or Don't…) I Can't Stop Watching This: Bad Landings and Go-arounds Set to Song Subscribe to Buy Star Alliance Miles Monthly at 1.39 Cents Apiece       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.