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Greetings from Southern California — where the sun is shining again after a week of rain. Lots and lots of rain. (I’ve learned a lot of things as I’ve gotten older. One of them is that you’re required to say, “Well, we need it,” whenever it rains — regardless of whether or not rain is actually needed.)
This is a busy travel week. I’m glad the government pulled their heads out of their we-know-whats and got everyone back to work! Are you going anywhere this week? Tell us in the Comments section!
Last week, we discussed another holiday — Valentine’s Day! Remember that your luxury hotel benefits can be used now to book reservations for 2026. They expire soon! A romantic getaway might be an excellent opportunity to use them.
Our resident frequent floater, René deLambert, talked about Starlink coming to more cruises — and some etiquette people need to keep in mind.
He also talked about Delta’s new nickel-and-diming of Comfort+ or whatever it’s called now.
Finally, please don’t be this guy.
Happy Thanksgiving, if you celebrate. If you don’t, enjoy all the football and no traffic on Thursday and Friday! (I also hope you have those days off from work!)
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Comfort cabin is getting worse. I’m seeing reduced snack basket flights and increased express flights drink service where the only alcoholic beverages are beer and wine. The cart snack offerings are now all gluten containing…cookies, sun chips, and is it Cheezit? So if you have an allergy or prefer spirits you get nothing. Only some flight attendants will go out of their way to grab something from the first class cabin. My upgrade rate to first is near zero between hubs and about sixty percent overall. As a four year diamond with reserve card. Million milers own the upgrades.
These new levels of comfort are over the top!! Went to Zurich this week. Tried Air France their website sucks more than Delta
I’ve got 1.8 million trying to get to 2 with personal use only, no business. Got 2 yrs left w/Diamond via my trade in for my MQM’s couple yrs ago. If I’m first on the upgrade list and get it, they automatically put me in bulk head. Why?!?!