Airlines have made the travel booking experience more complicated. There are checked baggage fees, seat assignment fees, and fares that don't allow advance seat assignments or even full-sized carry on bags at all. Now they want to dictate the way that ...

Airlines Want to Outlaw Comparison Shopping Sites In Order to Help You and more...  In This Issue...  Airlines Want to Outlaw Comparison Shopping Sites In Order to Help You  LIVE: Choose Cash or Points Refund If You Paid British Airways Fuel Surcharges  Passengers Fainted and Flight Diverted Because Man Onboard Smelled Really Bad  Southwest Flight Diverts When Passenger Sparks Up in the Lavatory  Inside United’s New Newark Business Lounge and New $450 Premium Credit Card  Marriott Courtyards, AC Hotels, and Moxy Aren’t Included in Free Elite Breakfast After All  Air France Allowing First Class Mileage Bookings (Wide Open Availability)  More Recent Articles This email contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. Airlines Want to Outlaw Comparison Shopping Sites In Order to Help You Airlines have made the travel booking experience more complicated. There are checked baggage fees, seat assignment fees, and fares that don't allow advance seat assignments or even full-sized carry on bags at all. Now they want to dictate the way that all online travel agency sites display their fees. And they don't even promise to give these sites the information that would allow them to do so. "I'm from the airlines and I'm here to help." Continue reading Airlines Want to Outlaw Comparison Shopping Sites In Order to Help You...          • Email to a friend • LIVE: Choose Cash or Points Refund If You Paid British Airways Fuel Surcharges Yesterday I wrote about the class action settlement over fuel surcharges imposed by British Airways on U.S. customers between November 9, 2006 and April 17, 2013. Commenter Steve reported the page to select your cash or points is now live: "They are offering me 35,000 Avios or $955. Not bad." Continue reading LIVE: Choose Cash or Points Refund If You Paid British Airways Fuel Surcharges...          • Email to a friend • Passengers Fainted and Flight Diverted Because Man Onboard Smelled Really Bad A flight from Gran Canaria to Amsterdam on Dutch low cost carrier Transavia made an emergency landing on Tuesday. Passengers were fainting in their seats. Some vomited in the aisles. None had even eaten the fish, and the flight wasn't especially turbulent. No one turned into a zombie. Passengers "began to gag and become violently ill." And it all traced to one passenger. Continue reading Passengers Fainted and Flight Diverted Because Man Onboard Smelled Really Bad...          • Email to a friend • Southwest Flight Diverts When Passenger Sparks Up in the Lavatory Conrad Hilton got away with smoking pot in the lavatory of a flight headed for Los Angeles. Yesterday a Southwest Airlines flight also headed for Los Angeles diverted to San Jose when another passenger celebrated 4/20, albeit about six weeks late. Continue reading Southwest Flight Diverts When Passenger Sparks Up in the Lavatory...          • Email to a friend • Inside United’s New Newark Business Lounge and New $450 Premium Credit Card 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 Inside United’s New Newark Business Lounge and New $450 Premium Credit Card...          • Email to a friend • Marriott Courtyards, AC Hotels, and Moxy Aren’t Included in Free Elite Breakfast After All We were promised these hotel brands would offer Platinum breakfast benefits. They don't. They offer a food and beverage credit, which can be used any time during a stay. That credit won't cover breakfast at all of their properties, but the news isn't as bad as it appeared at first -- Marriott is updating their chart, which suggested the credit would be only once per stay rather than once per day (for the member and guest). Continue reading Marriott Courtyards, AC Hotels, and Moxy Aren’t Included in Free Elite Breakfast After All...          • Email to a friend • Air France Allowing First Class Mileage Bookings (Wide Open Availability) For several years Air France has limited first class award redemptions to members using their own Flying Blue miles, who had elite status in the Flying Blue program, and made those members pay the double/triple miles price for the seats. Right now first class awards are available to anyone, and on most flights. Continue reading Air France Allowing First Class Mileage Bookings (Wide Open Availability)...          • Email to a friend • More Recent Articles Redeem Just 11,000 Miles to Europe – Book in June for August/September Travel New Hyatt Promotion for Grand and Regency Brands: 2500 Points Every 5 Nights Hyatt Changes How Suite Upgrades Expire, Here's How to Really Fix World of Hyatt Opinions expressed here are author's alone, not those of any bank, credit card issuer, airline or hotel chain, and have not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any of these entities.     Safely Unsubscribe • Archives • Preferences • Contact • Subscribe • Privacy Email subscriptions powered by FeedBlitz, LLC • 365 Boston Post Rd, Suite 123 • Sudbury, MA 01776, USA