I woke up this morning to a very odd email from Virgin Australia’s Velocity Frequent Flyer program. If it weren’t for all the graphics and interesting spin to the email, I would actually think it is some kind of spam message from the competition saying the Velocity program is a …
Images from terrifying Southwest flight show passengers didn’t put oxygen masks on right. https://t.co/qzMmlbaq9k (Photo: AP) pic.twitter.com/mkRaRiEKqy — USA TODAY (@USATODAY) April 19, 2018 What’s wrong with the above image? By now you must have seen the image above doing rounds on the media silently chuckling to yourself about …
The Department of Homeland Security is apparently hiring people who can create a database of journalists, bloggers, and influencers. The data to be compiled apparently includes a publication’s “sentiment” among other factors such as languages, momentum, and circulation. The job posting, which first came to the attention of the public …
According to a Lifehacker article, beginning this month you don’t have to sign those receipts at the end of dinner anymore. The major credit card issuers (Visa, AMEX, Mastercard etc) will no longer require signatures when buying something. Arguably, the United States has been behind the rest of the world …
United is just the gift that keeps giving these days for the media. This time it’s not some incident involving a passenger, but about a scandal involving stealing sand from a Florida beach. That’s right, United CEO Oscar Munoz is being accused of taking sand from a Florida public beach …
Switzerland is looking to become the first country to integrate drones into its air traffic control. Recent years have seen many landscape lovers to video tape the world’s most beautiful vistas with drones despite the risky nature of flying them in areas where other flights are conducted. Here is just …
California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) has offered one of the most lucrative reward programs on the market for the past 16-18 months. The program was setup to where you could earn $10 in CPK Cash (Pizza Dough Rewards) for every 3 visits or $100 spent. Unfortunately, that will no longer be …
Emirates has finally decided to unveil a business class cabin, which can compete with its Middle Eastern rivals on its 777-200 LR aircraft according to a press release and tweet by the airline: Emirates unveils a more spacious Business Class cabin on its @BoeingAirplanes 777-200LR fleet with seats in a …
There’s some scary footage of an engine cover (nacelle) falling apart on an United 777 today from San Francisco – Honolulu. The incident occurred 45 minutes before the arrival of the aircraft into Honolulu at which point the airport received a distress signal from the aircraft. Twitter is full of …
So you’ve probably heard by now that SPG and Marriott just announced their 2018 hotel category changes. At SPG, 8% of hotels are moving up a category, while 7% are moving down, but at Marriott 21% are moving up, while only 5% will be coming down. These changes are in …
