- Service Animals on Flights May Face Tougher Restrictions by New York Times. It’s a shame that there has been so many people abusing this that they have had to change the rules.
- Bad News – Singapore Airlines Is Now Charging To Hold Award Space by Miles to Memories. Looks like this might be YMMV for now.
- Banks Are Handing Out Beefed-Up Credit Lines No One Asked For by Bloomberg.
- You Can Now Use Your AmEx At As Many Places as Visa, Mastercard by Bloomberg.
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Here are some of the most popular posts from past few days:
While we’re at it, let’s ban crying kids, old farts, and people with attitudes from planes… /s
If you want to bring your pet, pay the pet fee and keep them in their travel bags. This isn’t hard.
People complaining about dogs on flights are like the overly-eager guy at the gate who is upset that the wheelchairs get to go before First Class… like, maybe disabled people need more time or assistance… but, no, THAT guy’s pissed, because he paid four times what those peasants paid.
My personal favorite: when the person behind you uses your seat to get up. Like, here you are resting on a 13 hour redeye in economy and *bam* guy rattles you awake. Dude, use your own chair to get up!
Stop conflating people who actually need assistance with those who want to save a few bucks and not pay their fair share.
Not a fan of these regs as it affects genuine service animals IE Guide Dogs for blind folks. Requiring an extra hour for checkin at the airport precludes online checkin. It also creates problems where you have a connection on a separate airline.
Huge difference between Service animals (including miniature horses) are an ADA issue. Where as ESA are a comfort issue – flying is a privilege not a right, just like driving.
Service animals are highly trained and rarely if ever misbehave, or attack people or other animals.
I do think that people have pushed the limits with aggressive dog breeds or exotic animals.
Millions of people fly every day. Likely thousands of animals with them. We only hear in the news about the lady with the peacock or when a dog dies. Tragic. Why? Because it’s like a shark attack. Great clickbait. Gets people worked up.
How about regular-sized horses? I think KLM still does that on the 747-combi.
Either people are trolling hard here or there is a lot more hate towards pets and pet-owners than I ever expected from this community.
It’s not about pets. It’s about people with personality disorders having their extreme sense of entitlement fully catered to.
If people go through the trouble to get doctors notes and fill out necessary paperwork with their respective airlines, that seems like enough red tape to me. Extra fees (bring pets as opposed to ESA or service animals) only benefit airlines’ bottom lines at the detriment of people who may need those animals with them (whether for travel or at their destination). Dogs are gonna be in cabins regardless. These proposed updates to federal guidelines do not reduce entitled people.
It’s not so much about reducing entitled people, as disempowering them.
Sounds like you both need emotional support… maybe get a dog, or go on a vacation, how about both? haha…
@”Wink”
Does your dog changes its name as often as you do?
Ah, the notorious troll,
SamL… when you can’t argue substance, attack the person, gaslight, gatekeep, or share a whataboutism. I still think you two could use a pooch!
You can get these “notes” online for like 50 bucks. Actually, I am happy with extra fees, right now I am subsidizing your flying cujo. That is another angle. Why should I be paying for extra weight and cleanup ?
Those notes are a scam. If people want to bring their pets on airlines, they should pay the damn pet fee. Just like checking an over-sized bag or selecting a specific seat.
I’m always happy to get more credit on my cards. Gotta play to win. My current goal in this game is 100k in personal credit.
Awesome goal! And get some extra players, spouse, parents, kids in the game. Your bonuses and referrals grow exponentially.
The proposed rule gives individual airlines the option of restricting emotional support animals. Which really seems like the best option, let the market sort this out.
Haha, sarcasm I hope… it’ll go from airlines waiving pet fees (usually $125), to them charging them for ESA and service animals alike. Just more profit for airlines, still dogs in cabins. Why root for something that’s more costly for people that may actually have a special need? Nope.
Terrific idea. I smell breed profiling coming up.
Let’s do people profiling. Oh, wait…
Peanut allergy: announcements to not open your own snacks on board, no service for the 3 rows in front of and behind the person, and obviously the flight won’t serve anything with nuts.
Pet dander allergy: here’s a seat next to a dog.
You’re probably allergic to farts too…
Wake me up when AmexGC gets nearly as easy to liquidate as VGC/MCGC.
This guy gets it.
Maybe Amex is accepted at the same number of businesses as MC/V but they’re not the same type of businesses. A fancy high end boutique selling mink coats isn’t something I really care about. On the day to day stuff – utilities, education, doctors etc – I find that Amex has poor acceptance. I would not be able to get by in daily life carrying only an Amex.
Maybe 20-30 years ago I used to run into the occasional merchant who was Amex only, a few really good restaurants, Costco etc. I never experience that now.
Walk around the average strip mall in America, and compare the front door stickers. Amex is in places where luxury/discretionary spending is happening.
Agree – I don’t recall ever shopping at a place AmEx worked but Visa wasn’t accepted. I can think of dozens of times over just the last year when we wanted to use AmEx but it wasn’t an option.
I once lived in a place where it seemed like all the sushi restaurants were Amex only. It was crazy. That changed eventually. Only place where I ever experienced that, except for Costco.
Amex only?! I’ve only been to once place like that: Ethiopian-French place in Greenwich Village. No silverware, Amex only. Delicious!
In-and-out used to be amex only, they take everything now. If anything, it feels like amex is losing its edge not gaining parity.
I find that nearly 100% of US businesses I run across in-person & online take all 4 of the big card networks. These are not high end places at all & include even the deep discount grocery store & Dollar Tree. I am actually surprised in the very few times they refuse my Amex or Discover.
Admittedly, the local burger place takes Amex but has no sticker advertising it because they prefer to take Visa/MC as they let me know, but they also flatout refuse Discover.
Strangely, I have found Discover is the card that has acceptance issues for me in places where Amex works. Even still, this is only at 4 restaurants & 2 parking lots, so still pretty rare out of everything.
PG&E (electric & gas utility) takes (for $1.35 flat fee) Visa, MasterCard, Discover, Amex, & even UnionPay works! I’ve used it as part of my signup bonus spend for Amex cards.
If you think Amex is bad overseas, try Discover… merchants be like: “WTF is this?”
Ahh, how quaint. You two must have never heard of Union Pay.