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Friday, May 18, 2018

United Tells its Flight Attendants Their Appearance is Too Sloppy and more...

United Airlines sent two memos to flight attendants scolding them for their personal grooming. United's Vice President of Inflight says "We lost our focus on the value uniform standards have on our customers' perception of our company." Continue ...

United Tells its Flight Attendants Their Appearance is Too Sloppy and more...


United Tells its Flight Attendants Their Appearance is Too Sloppy

United Airlines sent two memos to flight attendants scolding them for their personal grooming.

United's Vice President of Inflight says "We lost our focus on the value uniform standards have on our customers' perception of our company."

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TSA Discloses New Watch List of Passengers They Don’t Like

The TSA has "created a new secret watch list" of passengers they believe have behaved badly at airport security checkpoints.

This includes behavior like "swatt[ing] away security screeners' hands" and passengers "who loiter suspiciously near security checkpoints" as well as anyone the TSA deems to present "challenges to the safe and effective completion of screening."

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Arriving in Toronto This Summer? Expect to Wait an Hour on the Tarmac

According to a Border Services Agency memo between May 28 and September 16 they are moving border and customs agents out of Toronto and sending them to Montreal and Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle in Quebec because they're expecting an influx of refugees crossing from the U.S. into Canada seeking asylum.

These cases have tripled, and Canada's solution is to divert border personnel away from legal arrivals of tourists and businesspersons to handle the refugee cases.

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United Bringing Food Back to First Class on 3 Hour Domestic Flights

Two weeks ago I wrote that United had confirmed cutbacks to meals in domestic first class on flights under four hours outside of departures between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. They also cut several beverage choices.

The blowback was swift and immediate. First they brought back tomato juice. Now they're bringing back food.

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Man Ran Across Tarmac, Yanked on Plane Door Because He Was Late for Flight

Running out onto the tarmac and chasing after your plane though is a very bad idea. Nonetheless a passenger in Melbourne, Australia who was late for his flight to Adelaide on Jetstar, the low cost Qantas subsidiary, decided to try it.

He "missed his flight Thursday bolted out across the airport's tarmac, ran up the stairs to a plane, and tried to rip open the locked cabin door" -- and was caught on video doing it. But that's not even the best part.

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Stealing Food from the Passenger Behind You and Marijuana-Induced Psychotic Delta Passenger

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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US Surgeon General Came to the Rescue of Passenger on Delta Flight

The Surgeon General of the United States came to the rescue of a passenger on a Delta flight on Wednesday while enroute to Jackson, Mississippi.

He was headed from Fort Lauderdale to Atlanta on Delta flight 1827. The plane returned to the gate when the customer became ill. A passenger lost consciousness while the flight was waiting to take off.

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300,000 Points from 3 New Hilton Limited-Time Offers

Hilton has a new exclusive relationship with American Express that launched earlier in the year. They were out of the gate quickly with aggressive 100,000 point offers.

Now they've taken it a step further with new even more lucrative limited-time offers — totaling 300,000 points and a free night.

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