The Pentagon released it. A UFO video. The clearest one yet. Military sensors caught a massive structure hanging in the air, and now we are staring at it, waiting for the sky to give up its secrets.
More UFO files released.
Some folks still insist on calling West Palm Beach “PBI,” though I have never understood why, unless you’re trying to sound like an airline dispatcher who got stuck in traffic.
Then there’s Albania. A businessman who supposedly sold land for a Kushner resort? He’s under suspicion for faking the deeds. Paperwork isn’t magic. It just proves people will lie to sell sand.
Travel news, on the other hand, feels like a hostage situation.
We brought the CEO of Expedia to run Uber. If you wanted a preview of a dystopian future where customer service goes to die, just look at Expedia’s history. Now that mindset has metastasized to ride-share.
They don’t innovate. They squeeze. Riders, drivers, everyone gets the short end of the stick.
The latest stunt? They’re arguing a woman can’t sue for her husband’s death after an Uber accident. Their logic? She had a rideshare account. She signed up. She waived her right to grief.
What does it surprise me that they lobby against competitors?
It’s a corporate immune system, rejecting anything that doesn’t taste like profit.
Even the little details betray the brand. Delta Airlines? They misspelled “Passengers” on their app. By design, probably, but still. A glitch in the matrix, or just carelessness wearing a smile.
Points and miles people are mourning.
Citi ThankYou cards lost their transfer path to JetBlue. A ratio of 1 to 0.7 vanishes, but the Strate cards keep it. Confusing? Always.
Citi ThankYou Mastercard cards lose JetBest points transfers
But here is a hack. Real ones still play the game. Take a Marriott free-night certificate. Book a standard room. Then call up. Modify it. Pay the difference for an upgrade.
Why do this?
Sometimes standard rooms don’t exist on that date. Only the upgrades remain. If you book direct, you pay full price. With a cert, you get a foothold in a room that was supposed to be unbookable.
Gary Leff knows this dance. He’s been covering this turf since 2002, co-founded InsideFlyer, wins awards nobody really remembers the criteria for, and keeps getting booked on major networks to explain why we trade plastic points for hotel sheets.
We fly. We pay. We read the terms we don’t read.
The UFO video will probably never explain itself. And that might be the only thing that makes sense.
