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Friday, September 7, 2018

American Now Has Live TV With No Screens But Hasn't Delivered Promised Free Texting and more...

American Airlines announced that they now have high speed internet and live tv on 100 domestic narrowbody aircraft. The plan is to roll it out across the rest of their domestic fleet over the coming year as they add high speed satellite internet to the ...

American Now Has Live TV With No Screens But Hasn’t Delivered Promised Free Texting and more...


American Now Has Live TV With No Screens But Hasn’t Delivered Promised Free Texting

American Airlines announced that they now have high speed internet and live tv on 100 domestic narrowbody aircraft. The plan is to roll it out across the rest of their domestic fleet over the coming year as they add high speed satellite internet to the aircraft.

There are 111 aircraft equipped with Gogo's 2Ku satellite internet and these planes offer free live TV. All of the airline's Airbus A320s have the product along with "more than 60 A319s" according to internal documents. Today the product is available only on legacy US Airways aircraft and the A320s do not yet have seat power, so bring a backup battery if you want to watch something.

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No Notice: Marriott Stops Giving Elite Benefits For Online Travel Agency Reservations

Back in April I talked with Marriott's Senior Vice President of Loyalty David Flueck and he assured me that the new Marriott program would continue to honor elite benefits when guests booked their stays through online travel agencies.

Marriott's new terms and conditions were consistent with this, as well. It was a real improvement over how Starwood treated elites whose rooms were booked through these sites. And it lasted for all of two weeks.

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Man Lives in Airport Because He Couldn’t Afford Change Fee on Ticket

Mehran Karimi Nasseri is the man behind the Tom Hanks film The Terminal. He spent 18 years living in Paris Charles de Gaulle airport's terminal 1. He reported being kicked out of Iran for protesting the Shah, and eventually granted refugee status in Belgium. He moved to the UK, but lost his papers when he says his briefcase was stolen.

Recently a Taiwanese man spent more than a week living in the Perth, Australia airport but not because he lacked documents. He ran out of money and was waiting to fly home in several weeks. He couldn't afford to change his ticket on Singapore Airlines low cost carrier Scoot.

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How Did Those TSA Inspections of Cuba Go? and Baggage Handler Tribute to Freddie Mercury

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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Log In To American Express to See Your Cathay Pacific Points Transfer Bonus (10% – 30%)

American Express Membership Rewards points transfer to a variety of different airline programs and so some hotels. Generally your best redemptions with Amex points is going to be airline transfers. And they offer occasional transfer bonuses.

Right now points transfers to Cathay Pacific are showing up with targeted bonuses.

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Customers Who Have Booked on the British Airways Website Just Had Their Payment Details Stolen

British Airways issued a press release saying that the “personal and financial details” of customers that have used its website and mobile app to book travel have been stolen, but that this does not include travel details (itineraries) or passport information. This all happened late Wednesday night London time, From 22:58 BST August 21 2018 until 21:45 BST September 5 2018 inclusive, the personal and financial details of customers making bookings on ba.com and the airline's app were compromised. The breach has been resolved and our website is working normally. They say they’re reaching out to customers they believe have been affected, but that anyone worried about it should “contact their banks or credit card providers” and do whatever those companies...

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Bigger Hilton Amex Bonus Offers Coming Next Week

According to Hilton there are bigger initial offers coming for the suite of Hilton Honors credit cards from American Express on September 11.

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