News and notes from around the interweb:
Avis claims a customer drove 29,000 miles in three days, charging her $8,079.76. Should’ve booked an unlimited miles rate. (HT: Paul H)
Free trips for relatives of members of Congress
U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-California, leads the list of frequent fliers with 45 trips since 2012. Lee has brought her grandson, spouse, sister, two daughters-in-law and two children on trips to Beijing, Berlin, two locales in Africa, as well as Istanbul, Israel and other destinations — with the family always flying business class and staying in five-star accommodations.
…U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Colorado Republican, took his wife Jeanne Lamborn on nearly every privately funded trip he took between 2012 and 2023.
Airline rejects passport over small coffee stain (HT: Paul H)
Hyatt is offering double points on stays in Europe, Africa, the Middle East & Asia Pacific between October 7 and December 20, 2024, starting with the second stay. Members can earn up to 20,000 bonus points and registration is required.
What’s grosser than gross?
Found a surprise when I opened my table on my flight. Fortunately it wasn’t fresh…. and yeah, those are chunks… @AmericanAir pic.twitter.com/aFtQ3TiIH9
— Ted Lyons (@HaaveYouMetMe) September 25, 2024
DOT complaint that American Airlines markets ‘first checked bag free’ with its co-brand credit cards, while failing to disclose that the benefit is limited to wholly domestic trips.
AA’s offer is actually even worse than what you describe: You correctly describe the actual AA offer (only on entirely domestic itineraries). But AA’s marketing gets this wrong: Calls it “first checked bag free”. Blue boxes below. Details at https://t.co/R7BY0TM2ad pic.twitter.com/43ZjX2LQg0
— Ben Edelman (@bgedelman) September 25, 2024