American Airlines announced that loyalty points earned towards status with their credit cards would credit differently effective with the end of the member year in February 2024. It’s delayed loyalty points earned in March from posting as expected.
Mechanics Brought Down American Airlines Five Years Ago. They’re Readying For Battle Again.
Without a vision for higher value work to be insourced from other airlines, there’s just not going to be as much high value work to do and legacy airline mechanics are too expensive for the lower value work. These broad trends almost ensure conflict between American Airlines and its mechanics union once negotiations begin in earnest.
9 Reasons To Get Citi’s American Airlines Business Card Now
I’ve had the CitiBusiness® / AAdvantage® Platinum Select® Mastercard® both recently and in the distant past, and it’s spending on this card that largely accounting for my first lifetime elite status with American Airlines way back in 2006. American’s miles are the currency I’ve spent the most over the years, and there’s no longer a great way to earn miles through another credit card besides an American branded one and then transfer those miles to AAdvantage.
And AAdvantage miles remain my go-to right now too, whether it’s booking Qatar Airways QSuites for next year or Cathay Pacific awards to go back to Southeast Asia. Any awards booked this year can be cancelled, with miles redeposited, at no cost – so these miles are the perfect way to start planning travel again.
Double Hyatt Qualifying Nights At Thompson And Dream Hotels
Hyatt is offering double elite nights at two of its brands – Dream Hotels and Thompson Hotels – for stays completed between March 22, 2024, and June 10, 2024. Registration required by May 22.
The Tip Scam: How Restaurants Trick You Into Tipping More Than You Realize [Roundup]
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.
Security Breach: Simple Hack Unlocks Millions of Hotel Room Doors Globally
It’s possible to open over 3 million hotel doors worldwide with just two taps. One of the people that figured out how to do it is the founder of airline award search tool Seats.aero.
Two years ago a group was invited to hack a brand of hotel door lock in Las Vegas. What one team found was flaws in the RFID-based keycard locks by Dormakaba, a leading Swiss lock manufacturer. This vulnerability affects Saflok systems installed in doors across 131 countries. There’s a fix rolling out, but it’ll take months or even years to be in place worldwide.
Conspiracy In Tennessee: State Senate Votes To Ban Weather Controlling Chemtrails From Planes
Legislators in Tennessee are convinced that contrails are really government weather control experiments, or targeting of civilians with poison – and the state’s senate has passed legislation to ban “chemtrails” within the state’s borders.
Chemtrails is a conspiracy theory that the trails left by aircraft are chemical or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes for nefarious and secret purposes.
American Airlines Passenger Gets Put In Headlock After Using Antisemitic Slur Against Flight Attendant
Prior to departure of an American Airlines flight from Tampa to Philadelphia, a passenger gets into an altercation and calls a flight attendant a “kike” but I don’t think he knows what that means.
Dark Side Of Rewards Miles And Government Surveillance: DOT Audits How Airlines Abuse Your Data
The U.S. Department of Transportation is launching a comprehensive review of the top U.S. airlines’ privacy practices concerning passenger data, focusing on potential unethical monetization and data sharing with third parties, in an effort led by Secretary Buttigieg and influenced by Senator Wyden’s advocacy for stricter privacy protections.
Speed 3: Man Hijacks City Bus With A BB Gun, Crashes Into Ritz-Carlton LA
The Ritz-Carlton Los Angeles has a hole in its front wall. Someone stole a city Metro bus, hijacking it with a BB gun late last night, ordering the driver to go to several locations. Inside the wall of the Ritz-Carlton may have been one of them?