A Hawaiian Airlines flight attendant — the reigning Mrs. Hawaii America — noticed that a 97 year old and his family who were headed to the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor events and were last to board seemed upset. So she brainstormed a way to cheer them up.
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With as much money as Uber loses you’d think they couldn’t afford to lose even one rider. However on Thursday Uber published guidelines for what will get you banned as a customer.
It’s easy to find out how Uber drivers rate you after each trip. But now matter how good your Uber rating is, some behaviors will get you kicked off the platform.
Qantas flies what used to be the longest flight in the world, Sydney – Dallas, with an Airbus A380.
For the past year Qantas has been talking about their own flight that tops Dubai – Auckland: Perth, in Western Australia, to London with a new Boeing 787-9 in late 2017. And they’re expected to announce it tomorrow.
In India the pilots seem to have even more of a swagger than Alec Baldwin. If they want to land on a road, they may just consider landing on a road. They fight each other. If they’re scheduled to fly somewhere they don’t want to go — even for an airline’s inaugural flight — they simply don’t show up.
United offers up to a million miles in its bug bounty program but it’s not just white hat hackers being offered points.
There’s a new program that will award hackers with valuable points for participating in DDoS attacks.
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United unveiled its new business class – Polaris back in June, and they launched the soft product on December 1.
The new fully flat direct aisle access seat isn’t fly yet, though. We just got more details about the first plane to have it and where it will fly.
Emirates expects to be offering premium economy within 18 months.
Some might argue they already offer premium economy, only they call it business class. Emirates offers an angled business class on its Boeing 777 aircraft. Only their A380s have fully flat seats. They’re introducing a new flat business class seat on new 777s, but not retrofitting existing ones.
Marriott’s top elite status comes with United status, and therefore access to Economy Plus seating. Starwood’s top elite status comes with pseudo-elite benefits on Delta, and those now include access to extra legroom seats. With the Marriott-Starwood merger, arn one of those statuses, you get both.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
