Follow Us
Checking In »
My 2023 Mattress Run: How I Retained Hilton Honors Gold Elite Status With 2 Stays
While in pre-pandemic days I did my share of mileage runs to maintain top-level status with either American Airlines or Delta (depending on the time period), I never engaged in a mattress run, that is until now.
For the uninitiated, a mileage or mattress run is what frequent travelers can do if they are short on status miles, points, nights, or stays, for the purpose of maintaining or increasing their elite …
In Flight »
Want to Make an In-Flight PB&J or Smuggle a Gun? According to the TSA, Peanut Butter is a Liquid
The question of what constitutes a liquid had, physicists and the TSA thought, long been settled, that is until now. The case of a podcaster, Patrick Neve, who complained about having to surrender his jar of Jif triggered a wave of sympathy as well as numerous complaints, including a cheeky reply from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration.
Neve was en route to a speaking engagement with a jar of Jif peanut …
Checking In »
My 2023 Mattress Run: How I Retained Hilton Honors Gold Elite Status With 2 Stays
While in pre-pandemic days I did my share of mileage runs to maintain top-level status with either American Airlines or Delta (depending on the time period), I never engaged in a mattress run, that is until now.
For the uninitiated, a mileage or mattress run is what frequent travelers can do if they are short on status miles, points, nights, or stays, for the purpose of maintaining or increasing their elite …
In Flight »
Want to Make an In-Flight PB&J or Smuggle a Gun? According to the TSA, Peanut Butter is a Liquid
The question of what constitutes a liquid had, physicists and the TSA thought, long been settled, that is until now. The case of a podcaster, Patrick Neve, who complained about having to surrender his jar of Jif triggered a wave of sympathy as well as numerous complaints, including a cheeky reply from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration.
Neve was en route to a speaking engagement with a jar of Jif peanut …
