News and notes from around the interweb:
- The Bilt Rewards backstory, surprisingly candid, podcast interview with company founder Ankur Jain. Really thoughtful on the challenges building a business. If you’ve done it, or been close to people who have, he makes a lot of sense. But for many people the lessons will be surprising.
- With Lufthansa’s latest buy miles offer ‘the more you buy, the less you save.’
I assume this is intentional, and they want you topping off your account not buying enough for an award, though this is the opposite of how these deals usually work and so seemed notable.
- The new United Airlines – IAM union deal.
— 🇺🇦 JonNYC 🇺🇦 (@xJonNYC) March 29, 2023
- Man boards plane without passport or boarding card
- If you crush the avocado it’s forbidden through the checkpoint. Or maybe it’s adding onions and cilantro that makes it a liquid? They seem to be engaged in a bureaucratic game of definitions, having forgotten that the whole point was supposed to be stopping people who want to blow up airplanes.
Lot of great info and background I got today on TSA.
“You can bring all the avocados you want, but once it is guacamole, you can’t bring it.”🥑
Somewhere in Chicago my Mom is wishing I would fix my posture, though. https://t.co/34nesIK8pz
— Alexandra Skores IS CHEERING FOR IOWA (@AlexandraSkores) March 29, 2023
- Patriarch of Taiwan soup dumpling empire has passed away
- The airport lost and found.
In my past experience I had no problem with packing slices of freshly peeled avocado into a plastic container, topping slices with lemon juice, and bringing those through TSA in Hawaii.
I assume that avocado chinks are OK as long as it is not mashed. Note that you can take any sliced fruit from Hawaii without violating the rules of agricultural inspection.
Love to buy some Lufthansa miles so they can expire eventually
Never understood the appeal of this airline ever other than their First Class lounge in
Frankfurt
@dewondermeant “… eventually expire…..” That’s a pretty broad catch-all to pull anyone up on anything tbh ( imho).
Also it’s not like they’re alone in points expiring. As an example: Avios ( a swathe of the OW carriers, including both founding members & flag carrier, FF Miles currency) also expires after a couple of years of zero account activity & Avios aligned airlines are far from the only ones who have a “use it or lose it” policy of some kind in place.
This LH ‘Deal’ is dodgy AF ( not a ref to the French national carrier lol) and I wouldn’t be shocked that if/when they are called out on it enough that they can’t ignore what they’ve done it’ll be a case of “oops. Totally by accident, honest. But also all transactions are final so we ‘cant’ adjust things for those who got suckered in by our, again, accident”. But saying you won’t buy points based off something that, globally speaking, more rather than less carriers also do seems a little redundant to me.