- Doctor Saves Passenger’s Life Midflight Using Only Toothpicks and a Spoon by View From The Wing. Somehow I’m skeptical about how much the toothpick acupuncture helped.
- AMEX Business Platinum Card: First Year Free and 40k MR Points! by Travelling The World. For some reason their terms of credit showed the annual fee waived for the first year, fingers crossed this is an upcoming promotion!
- Exclusive: Cabela’s set to receive two binding acquisition bids-sources by Reuters. Cabela’s credit card business is massive, it contributed 3.6 billion in sales last year. Looks like Capital One or Synchrony will end up with the portfolio.
- The Concourse Hotel Officially Renamed Hyatt Regency LAXÂ by Single Flyer. 12,000 points a night isn’t terrible for this property, but cash and points will probably be a better option for most people.
uuhh what? AMEX Business Platinum Card for 40k MR Points? this guy is crazy. anyway…
The cabelas sale to BassPro/CapitalOne was announced today. It was always surprising that cabelas issued their own cards.
Doc-the View from the wing article about “saving a passenger’s life” is not worth linking
The passenger was having a seizure which will usually stop without any intervention so it’s unlikely any life was saved. In fact the doctor endangered the passenger’s life by placing a spoon in his mouth during the seizure.