- Banks are keeping closer tabs on your reputation than ever before — and it may explain why one Sapphire Reserve cardholder mysteriously had his account shut down by Chase by Business Insider. One thing that makes me furious is the fact that card issuers won’t issue prorate annual fee refunds when cards are closed.
- United Threatens To Abandon Newark Hub by Live and Lets Fly. Doesn’t seem fair to only tax one airline. That being said it doesn’t seem unreasonable to tax airlines in general to fund things like commuter train extensions to the airport. At the end of the day, United is posturing and there is no way they are going to abandon Newark. It might affect future growth but in the short term at least nothing will change.
- Hawaiian Airlines to offer nonstop flights from Logan Airport to Honolulu by Boston Globe. Love a direct flight.
- If you care about stash rewards, check your account.
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United is not going to leave Newark. They can't even get back to JFK.
This is interesting :
"Regulation-technology companies like ComplyAdvantage, Ayasdi, and TransparINT have popped up to fulfill this service too, offering proprietary databases and screening tools that incorporate artificial intelligence and machine learning to better tailor and streamline the flagging process".
Now how do we get our report from ComplyAdvantage, Ayasdi, and TransparINT ?
Wow, that BI article on Chase was horrible. Basically: "Somebody had a mysterious shut down of their Chase cards and we poked around and still don't know why, but here's a totally unsubstantiated theory."
I agree, it's complete guesswork (though I think they made that clear). The shutdown could have had nothing to do with that settlement. Far more troublesome, if you ask me, is the fact that the account holder even NEEDS to guess in the first place! It's insane that a bank can wipe out an account holder absent not only wrongdoing of any kind, but- with the conservative, automated policies they are using- absent even the LIKELIHOOD of any wrongdoing, without needing to provide any basis for the shutdown (which is probably because they know that in too many of their shutdown cases, the suspicions wouldn't hold up under even the slightest scrutiny The thresholds for this kind of closure need to be much higher, and customers should at least be given the chance to explain and justify any "suspicious" behavior or news item. If that settlement was really the reason for this shutdown, the customer could have easily explained it and there is no reason he should have been shut down.
You expect more from Axel Springer? They are Europe's biggest tabloid producer, and bough BI in 2015. Everything they (both BI and Springer) publish is all about click-baiting for eyeballs. They became big in the 90s in Germany by putting topless ladies above the fold on their daily tabloid 'Bild', which Spiegel described as "flies just under the nonsense threshold of American and British tabloids ... For the German desperate, it is a daily dose of high-resolution soft porn"
I got so fed with being tricked into clicking through to seemingly good story only to be disappointed after reading that I close the tab immediately after seeing the BI URL before reading. The basic rules of journalism simply do not apply to anyone working for Springer.
Love having more options to Hawaii, but having flown on Hawaiian's A330's in regular coach, my advice is to stay well clear of regular coach on these birds if you are much north of six feet tall. The regular coach seats are jammed in together tightly. Not quite AA 737 MAX 8/legacy AA A319 tight, but not too far from it either.
Insult to injury is HA charges you to watch movies on their seatback entertainment systems, or at least did when I last flew them in March. What a joke. On the plus side, at least they serve a "free" meal. Though legacies are increasingly starting to do this on Hawaii flights too.
Wait, how can it be legal to not give a prorated refund? I would have thought that certainly breachs one of card laws...