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And it continues. Wow Air comes to Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland and Cincinnati. All these “budget” airlines must be doing something right…
Just in case if there is any left…Great Austrian Airlines Business Class Award Space next summer.
If you were planning to visit Russia, this is bad news: The US is “greatly reducing” visas for Russians.
These are tough! 15 of the hardest interview questions you have to answer to become a flight attendant. ‘What would you do if a passenger told you it was their loved one’s remains inside the urn they were holding and they didn’t want to place it underneath the seat?‘
Amazing video: Blue Angels Sneak Pass Reaction.
You could not escape it so here it is, watch the whole total solar eclipse in 4 minutes.
When industrial waste happens…The blue dogs of Mumbai.
This is a great personal finance post: When There is Blood in the Streets. I liked this especially: “Though you might start buying when there is blood in the streets, you may soon realize that a lot of that blood is your own.”
The BEST eclipse shots, enjoy!
Looks like the voter base of Donald Trump took another hit, hello Afghanistan! Oh wait, we never really left…Countries where the US has military bases and/or 1,000+ troops.
Must Visit Extreme Restaurants. We have seen most of these but there are some new ones!
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Just in case you were planning to do a British Airways Avios Household account, here is how to do it.
Another one folds into Avios. Vueling Punto Changes To Vueling Club And Migrates To Avios Platform In 2017.
I was surprised to see an email from Travel Is Free in my inbox, along with the following on Twitter, if you can help please do:
This is the website of the startup by the way.
Points With the Crew found it necessary to blog, several days later, about a post View From The Wing did and link to it, WTF! “Unaccompanied minor removed from flight for failing to pay up“. I wasted my time to write this for…you!
Bank of America hates Mile Nerd. Remember when the blogger mentioned below did the post telling family and friends how to get Alaska Airlines credit cards in one day? Thanks MMS Bankrate.
Someone emailed to bitch at me that I was out of line with the criticism of Million Mile Secrets. Really? With all the staff there posting crap like this, really?
The feeling when I check in the morning and I see all the work put into this for the previous day brought not a single $ click is one of the most deflating feelings ever!
Last Sunday post this Sunday, enjoy this baby while it lasts…
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Coming out of retirement just to prove I’ve still got it…
First.
Is this a warning that Brett Favre will make a comeback?
1. There’s a restaurant on a mountain above Vail, Colorado which you get to either by a wagon ride, or a one hour horse ride. (Or by shuttle van, if you don’t wanna saddle up). And the best part is you can get 3 Ultimate Reward points with every dollar you spend by using a CSR card (no link here ).
2. I’m not sure about Drew and Carrie’s person-to-person rental deal. Remember, I thought the neighbors would kill Air BnB, so my doubts could be the kiss of big success. Good folks, though.
1. Is the restaurant any good? Assigned the intern to track down the CSR affiliate link to insert here…oops, damn it, it’s TPG’s fault!
2. Agreed.
The restaurant up the ridge from Vail is Beano’s Cabin. We went over 20 years ago, and the ride up (and down) was the highlight.
Must be doing something right if they are still around, thanks.
Buzz thanks for the invite to you Mcgregor/Maywether on-demand fight OPEN HOUSE PARTY tonite. Place will be packed, so thanks for opening up you home to all of us. What is Mrs. Buzz serving? Curry Soup I hope!
The day I spend money to watch a pay per view fight between two assholes is the day you can call me crazier than Donald 🙂
Great photos!
I think mile nerd ran into the same problem as buying stocks at the bottom. It is hard to know more than the market especially when when you make a living telling people about market inefficiencies.
I agonized which eclipse pic to pick to post FIRST here 🙂
I have made people literally tens of dollars with my stock picking acumen:
Me: wow – been researching AXBYCZ Widgets. Looks strong.
Everyone within hearing: shorts AXBYCZ Widgets.
ta-da
Add a few charts and some “technical” anal-ysis and you can have your own show on CNBC woohoo!
I stick to cryptocurrencies. Shinier than tulip bulbs.
You’ve probably answered this already, but why don’t you use Google Adsense? I know it doesn’t pay a ton, something is better than nothing…
That was my first attempt in monetization. First three days I used it the amount of money I thought I was making was amazing. Only to realize on the fourth day I was probably click bombed by a “fan” of the blog and Google kicked me out of the program. Phuck them (both the “fan” and google!).
Lookee here, folks. Our Buzz hits the big time:
https://www.doctorofcredit.com/recap-blogger-burnout-city-national-banker-details/?utm_source=milesfeed.com&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=MilesFeed.com
Couldn’t believe it. He is off the penalty box.
I expect to see a VFTW link to get back at me 🙂
Congratulations! That was a fabulous piece of work
Sad to see Drew wasting his time on recirc…
He’s got David “the smartest guy he’s ever met” who was introduced to him by MMS. What’s to worry about?
I wish them the best…
I wonder if they got enough support at TIF would they still be doing it? I tried to help…Probably the most links of any other blog!
We evolve.
Hola amigos. Great links!
Did you see that post about honest airlines slogans?
AA’s: “We differentiate ourselves from our competition by charging more money than them”
I saw it…It was good but not TBB worthy (translated=saw it at a Titan’s site first but I won’t link to them) 🙂
Breaking news from our thought leader:
http/viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/2017/08/24/bikini-airline-promise-flight-attendants-will-go-fully-clothed-new-route/
As Tori Amos sang-
“So you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts.
What’s so amazing about really deep thoughts?
Boy, you’d best pray that I bleed real soon.
How’s that thought for you?”
Lol.
I adjusted the link slightly because I don’t want to give that blog more money. VFTW Pageviews=money.
TBB pageviews=look at that, wow, I pat my own back