“Sat in WT+ this morning on BA165 and along comes a lady who sits in the row behind me, immediately summons the crew and says ‘my husband tried to upgrade but was told there were no seats – the row is empty, can he sit here?’ Crew said they’d ask the ‘manager’ and get back to her.”
The story as recounted by…
Sometimes you need an infusion of miles or points to your membership account for whatever reason — perhaps to have enough to redeem for a limited time award as one example — and the best time to purchase miles or points is when they are on sale.
A sale may be a discount on the price required to purchase miles or points — or perhaps the frequent travel loyalty program from whom you are buying the miles or points will match your purchase up to 100 percent, which is another way of reducing the cost of miles or points.
For this edition of miles and points on sale…
The micro-entrepreneur accelerator program sessions occur on Tuesday nights in a charter school which is part of the system of Atlanta Public Schools; and one night, I saw a canvas poster which was affixed to a concrete support column inside of the cafeteria…
…and I immediately found at least one thing which seemed incorrect, as shown in the photograph above.
For this…
If China is in your travel plans over the next few months, you may want to consider delaying your travel — or, at least, keep yourself updated as to the latest information pertaining to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus.
The 2019 Novel Coronavirus was first identified in Wuhan, which is located in the Hubei Province of China. In addition to confirmed cases of this strain of coronavirus in…
On a recent trip to a grocery store, I found several items which seemed to suffer from an identity crisis and though that they were too good to pass up in terms of writing an article — so I took photographs of them in what has become the second article in a fun yet irregular series at The Gate called Identity Crisis in Photographs — Part 2.
The first item which caught my eye was…
“As long as the government allows exceptions that you can drive a truck through to laws requiring documentation, no wonder abuse is beyond rampant. There’s simply no repercussions to violating the law and businesses can’t gather enough information to see that the animal is valid. The whole situation is nuts. Besides holding the animal owner accountable for fraud if the animal is just a pet, holding any vet’s license responsible for incorrectly listing any animal as either a service animal or emotional support animal should fix the abuse in a hurry.”
As a reader of The Gate, Christian posted the comment you just read in response to this article pertaining to Another Example of Why People Register Their Pets as Emotional Support Animals — and the federal government of the United States may just act upon it.
The Department of Transportation of the United States announced…
At least 26 of the greater than 900 people who have been infected with what is known as the 2019 Novel Coronavirus have died; and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that the second known infection in the United States has been detected in Illinois — which leads to the question: should you be concerned about coronavirus?
The 2019 Novel Coronavirus was first identified in Wuhan, which is located in the Hubei Province of China. In addition to confirmed cases of this strain of coronavirus in…
As part of its overall efforts to reduce plastic waste, Group Accor is the latest lodging company to have announced a series of initiatives in which the miniature bottles and tubes provided in bathrooms across almost 5,000 hotel and resort properties worldwide will be replaced with what it calls “amenities dispensers” — along with eventually virtually eliminating single-use bottles of drinking water — with completion of these initiatives expected by no later than…
A call for labor strikes has been issued by members of trade unions in France for tomorrow, Friday, January 24, 2020, during which public servants and private sector employees will once again protest their anger pertaining to pension reforms by the government — including air traffic controllers — and the industrial labor action has already affected air travel for the day, as flights to, from and within France have already been delayed or canceled.
Meanwhile…
You can save up to 25 percent on room rates for stays at participating hotel and resort properties within the brand portfolio of Radisson Hotel Group in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean between Monday, April 1, 2020 and Friday, July 5, 2020…
…but you must…
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