Travel Buzz – January 27, 2012
Q1 2012 Hilton, Marriott and Starwood bonus promotions
Is the Victoria Falls bungee jump safe?
TSA strip searches 85 year old woman, then calls her a liar
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Travel Buzz – January 27, 2012
Top travel stories this week: Virgin America names airplane after Steve Jobs; Senator Rand Paul detained by the TSA; Alaska Airlines ends prayer cards on meal trays; Some flights rerouted due to intense solar activity.
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Q1 2012 Hilton, Marriott and Starwood bonus promotions
Hilton HHonors, Marriott Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest have announced their first quarter bonus point promotions. Be sure to register now to maximize your earnings throughout the first few months of 2012.
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Is the Victoria Falls bungee jump safe?
Life is full of risk. The key is to differentiate effectively between risks that are worthwhile and risks that are unnecessary. Having done a bungee jump once before, I hold the opinion that an occasional rush of adrenaline can be just what a person needs to break out of the hard-to-escape patterns and habits that dominate our daily lives.
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National Opt-Out Day: November 24, 2010
I'll get right to the point: It is time for game-changing resistance to the TSA's strip searches and molestation pat downs.
We've played nice so far, organizing by calling Congressional representatives and handing out literature educating fliers on the dangers and privacy invasions TSA is perpetrating.
How have TSA and its masters responded? By digging in even deeper- insisting the pat downs are not sexual assault and that those of us who don't like it can find another way to travel. The arrogance of John Pistole and Janet Napolitano is staggering, my friends. In their Kafka-esque world we must be content to be assaulted to keep us safe. And if not they'll try to fine us $11,000 for daring to question their authority.
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Airline review: Lufthansa
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice…
Lufthansa and I got off on the wrong foot years ago. I was nearing the end of my second round-the-world trip and had decided to leave Eastern Europe behind in favor of humus and Hezbollah, so I cashed in some miles for a ticket from Tallinn to Beirut on Lufthansa. The agent issued the ticket and assured me all was well. And it was, right up until I tried to check in at Tallinn airport.
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