News and notes from around the interweb:
- George W. Bush to be inducted into Texas Aviation Hall of Fame I guess because he ordered a whole lot of air strikes as President? He was a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard, and his father President George H.W. Bush is in the same hall of fame.
- Uber glitch let wife track husband, now he’s suing them for their failed marriage
- Several award chart sweet spots
- Windbag Miles reminds us that Air Canada and Cathay Pacific struck a deal that allows for reciprocal mileage earning and redemption. It’s limited to a handful of routes. Since this news came out just before Christmas, it didn’t get as much attention as it probably should have.
- Will Alitalia flight attendants strike over being asked to clean up the lavatories?
- Alaska Airlines is hiring a revenue protection supervisor “to establish and oversee a Revenue Protection team that will proactively detect and prevent financial fraud in all sales channels.” (HT: EZEDoesIt)
Years ago Delta’s Revenue Protection Unit was going after mileage runners. Flyertalk members worked to come up with ‘legitimate’ reasons for adding extra connections to their itineraries other than simply earning more miles.
I’m having an affair with someone in XXXXX (insert city 1), but I told my spouse I was on business in YYYYY (insert city 2). And when they ask why your layover is only 25 minutes in XXXXXXX, you can tell them “that’s all the time I need.”
I’m pulling a heist in XXX and there’s no extradition treaty with YYY.
I lost my wallet in XXXXX last week and needed to check the airport lost and found to see if it’s there.
I’m buying a lottery ticket in XXX on the outbound and picking up my winnings on the return.
The [Crown Room Club, now Sky Club] in place XXX does not have my favourite beer. So I would like to grab one in YYY on my way to ZZZ.
I’m actually spending the weekend in ZZZ, but I’m flying [Continental] there since I can upgrade even the lowest fares.
I need the connections to stretch my legs and avoid deep vein thrombosis.
Those pretzels in the Philadelphia airport concourse are worth the extra stop.
I am auditioning an escort service in one of the Laptop Lanes and they have a free booth open in city AAA on my way to BBB. I only need 10 minutes in a private booth.
“I guess because he ordered a whole lot of air strikes as President?”
So now the “Thought Leader in Travel’s” click bait strategy has sunken to the level of trolling for Right/Left arguments in the comments? One of us posts ‘Bush did fewer air strikes, and killed fewer people with them, than Obama’. And someone else hits back with the inevitable “Trump is a fascist” (sic).
Sad….
@Robert Hanson, what planet are you on? That was not a shot about airstrikes or left/right or democrat/republican. I am sure the same comment would be made by Gary if Obama was, for some bizarre reason, inducted into the Illinois Aviation Hall of Fame. Neither has done anything in aviation to warrant being in a hall of fame. It is quite possible that HW may have done something to distinguish himself as a military flyer, but W most definitely did not.
It’s just Gary’s hormones acting up….he just has a difficult time sticking to travel (but remember, it’s his blog we can read or ignore it).
Two words:
Mission Accomplished
Texas Aviation Hall of Fame – “Deciderers Welcome”
Well, if I was running that Hall of Fame, I’m not sure I’d induct. Dubya. That said, he is the only aviator in the history of the Texas Air National Guard to become President of the United States. So it’s not like his induction is as silly as, say, Obama getting a Nobel Peace Prize during his first year as President in the expectation that he would someday merit it.
Dubya getting inducted when he worked hard to not even show up for actual pilot duties or physicals (because he was a cocaine user)?!
[@Robert Hanson writes “but, but, Dan Rather!” in 3..2..1..]
Oh no the right wing snowflakes got upset because their leader for inbreeding had a mean thing said about him. Quick, say something mean about Obama!! Hahaha hilarious