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Best of the Best
December 4, 2018: Best airport retail displays – and best airport retail sales folks in the US — Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport!
Airline Employees Might be Smiling …
December 3, 2018: … But passengers on crowded planes certainly aren’t during the holidays!
The Only Battery Charger You’ll Ever Need?
November 30, 2018: That’s the word from NOMAD and their new fit in your pocket battery cable — five foot long charging cord with a built in battery that’s got enough juice to charge a fully dead phone. Sells for $50 and might be worth a try?
Be Careful Sharing Frequent Flyer Miles
November 29, 2018: It sounds good — you get a chance to help family and friends with free or reduced travel by sharing some of your frequent flyer miles — but beware of the pitfalls and extra fees (flat rate up to $30 and a per mile surcharge) and pay attention to really fine print. One recent United transaction — transfer of 25,000 miles cost the “giver” over $400. Might be less expensive to just offer to the buy the ticket!
Online Travel Booking Sites Offer Rewards
November 28, 2018: In an effort to compete with hotel loyalty programs, online travel sites, like Expedia, are enhancing their booking sites with their own rewards programs. Some offer add on deals — incremental revenue opportunities for them — with some only available for 15 minutes after you make a firm travel booking. Some booking sites even offer as much as 10% cash back on your booking. Be sure and read the fine print on all these “so called deals.”
Uber Hits Over 15 million Ride Bookings Worldwide PER DAY!
November 27, 2018: WOW — and they’re considering a rider loyalty program — hopefully not adding more confusion to their ride booking process? Lyft already has a program and tie in with Delta and JetBlue for even more confusion and so called loyalty rewards.
Airlines Watching You When Using Inflight Bathrooms — and Getting Paid?
November 26, 2018: Could be — several carriers are reviewing proposals to monitor passenger “health data” with high tech devices placed in their inflight bathrooms — and selling the data to medical research groups… hopefully the FAA will keep this idea from flying?
Pets Get Private Lounge in Phoenix
November 23, 2018: Yup — at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport— pets get VIP treatment with their own individual private lounge to take care of business!
More Rats than Residents in Paris
November 22, 2018: Yup — latest report from the French Health Authority says over 4 MILLION rats enjoy fine living in Paris — that comes out to 2 rates for each resident! Seems like even the critters enjoy the good life — and food — in Paris?
