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Bethenny Frankel was a ‘Real Housewife of New York City’ and a ‘Shark Tank Shark’ but she’s also a travel connoisseur. She reviewed the Virgin Clubhouse Newark last summer declaring it “garbouj” and she’s an investor in award search website Point.me.
She flew to Australia for business the long way – routing via the Mideast on Emirates – and brought her daughter in first class.
Emirates is adding a fourth flight between Dubai and Singapore, and the aircraft will continue on from Singapore to Phnom Penh, Cambodia and back to Singapore beginning May 1.
During a flight from Dubai to Islamabad on Emirates on Sunday, the cabin crew of EK614 had to subdue a belligerent intoxicated passenger in flexcuffs. Video of the event shows two flight attendants forcefully bringing the individual to the floor while others provided them with the black handcuffs to secure his wrists and ankles.
If you’re a drug smuggler you’re in a big money business. Checked bag fees shouldn’t be a binding constraint. And buying business class, which comes with more checked bags, is almost always more expensive than paying checked bag fees.
So when drug smugglers and their money launderers are said to be buying business class tickets for the greater checked bag allowance it sounds like the travel management challenges at any big company, where employees are looking for greater comfort and justifying it based on the needs of the business. Drug lords have travel policies, too, and their mules have to try to stay in scope!
When the seat belt sign is on, wear your seat belt. When the seat belt sign is off, but you’re in your seat wear your seat belt.
You can upgrade award tickets! This isn’t limited to buying business class with cash and upgrading with miles. If your upgrade doesn’t clear in advance, you can upgrade at the airport. And there there are no capacity controls. And there are no cash co-pays in addition to miles for the upgrade.
Plus their first class is a special product.
Emirates as a company hasn’t prioritized loyalty and so the head of loyalty optimizes within that framework. Revenue management won’t release award inventory to the program to any meaningful degree, so Skywards is stuck promoting using their miles as cash towards flights on the airline and cannot buy excess inventory to sell at a profitable discount through the frequency program.
Australian actor Chris Hemsworth, best known for portraying Thor in Marvel films, is getting roasted online for posting video traveling with his daughter in Emirates first class.
The Emirates Airbus A380 is special. First class features suites with doors, though there are better first class suites. Emirates has an amazing food and beverage program, often including $500 wines and even more expensive cognacs. And it has two on board showers. There’s also the business class bar.
But it’s an expensive product, both spending cash and spending miles. You’ll have to spend a lot more miles than most programs require for comparable travel. Except there’s a route where they give the seats away for less than the wine you can drink on board.
Miss Universe Canada 2023 Madison Kvaltin was hired by Emirates as a flight attendant. As part of her onboarding she was asked to complete a health history, and it included the question ‘have you ever struggled with an eating disorder?’
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 »
