Good morning, and welcome to today's community discussion thread! Today's posts will appear here throughout the day, but this thread is for going off-topic. Did you love/hate something about today's coverage? Are you tracking other news I missed? Or, do you just have a general question about rewards travel? This is the place for your wandering thoughts.
Today's posts on OMAAT:
- Chase Ink Business Card Bonus Categories: How To Earn 1.5-5x Points
- Review: Turkmenistan Airlines Business Class Boeing 737 (ASB-DEL)
- Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant Card $300 Restaurant Credit: How It Works
- WOW: American Bringing Back Seat Back Screens On All Narrow Body Planes
- American Greatly Expands First Class & Extra Legroom Seating On Narrow Body Fleet
- Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787 Suffers Botched Takeoff In Munich: Runway Overrun, Tail Strike, Shredded Tires
- Two American Planes With Same Callsign End Up On Same Frequency… AGAIN!
- Long-Awaited JetBlue BlueHouse Lounge Boston Expected To Open Soon
- Buy Qatar Airways Avios With 50% Bonus, 1.53 Cents Each: Worth It?
- Cabo Luxury Resorts Showdown: Which Of These Four Properties Is Best?
- OMAAT Feature Updates And Site Optimizations 8/18/26
- Review: Encalm Xenia Lounge Delhi Airport (DEL)
Daily threads stay open for a week, so it's never too late to jump into a recent conversation.
Happy Tuesday! For anyone who hasn't seen, just a quick heads up that Jeremy has set up a dedicated page to report site issues, and to cover new features rolling out, in case anyone that's useful to anyone:
https://onemileatatime.com/community/improvement-requests/site-issues/
We've been making lots of (hopefully positive) changes lately, and as much as we test things first, sometimes there are some minor glitches. So we're doing everything we can to fix them ASAP. Thanks for the patience!
And an unrelated question to the above, to those who enjoy trip reports -- would you rather read a review of Air Greenland from YFB-GOH-CPH, or Air Algerie from YUL-ALG-TUN? Planning an upcoming review trip, and that's a small aspect of it that I'm trying to decide on...
@lucky I'd much rather read a review of the Air Algerie flight (just feels like lots of room for creative writing and entertainment value... LALF seemed to enjoy his flight with them, although Flip Flop Traveler certainly did not...). That said, I'd personally much rather fly that Air Greenland routing one day.
@lucky YFB - GOH.....that route has fascinated me for years and the logistics seem tough....
@lucky Air Greenland, definitely. The GOH-CPH leg might be your one good chance to fly an A330-800.
@lucky why not both?!? In all seriousness the YFB-GOH-CPH is the one I would choose, going to Iqualit you should fly one of the Canadian artic airlines like AirNorth. Plus as @ORD_Is_My_Second_Home points out you can check off the A330-800.
@lucky If you're a fan of Ben Stiller in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013), he does take Air Greenland's red a330 (though, I think the film site of the little airport was actually in Iceland). If you do go, be prepared to pick between the 'red' or the 'blue' rental car options. ("I don't think that's a pour-poze!")
New lounge at Washington Union Station is opening!
@travelinwilly Cool to know about! If they can capture the magic of The Campbell (f/k/a Campbell Apartment) in Grand Central in NYC will be a winner. Naturally the first signature cocktail listed for the new DC lounge is The Manhattan Limited.
@peter_ I don't take Amtrak nearly enough these days, unfortunately, but next time I do I'll definitely be checking out this lounge. We need something in Union Station that's lounge-like that's not a full service restaurant, so I'll be excited to check out this one. If you're there first, we demand a review! 😀
@travelinwilly This is awesome! Nice for us Acela folks.
(Also, Willy, holy moly, you have '324,400 OMAAT points' already!)
Article on AP about how flight attendants and pilots are at the highest risk of dying from radiation-related cancers:
https://apnews.com/article/cancer-pilots-flight-attendants-247e445d23fd614fa424d0d5e70e188b
Gary (VFTW) pointing out that the study used a noisy methodology isn't the same as proving the conclusion is false. It’s just a very convenient way to change the subject so we don't have to talk about why flight crews are facing these risks in the first place. The study should really be a starting point, not the end of the conversation (though, I'm confident the industry would prefer we stop talking about it. Immediately. Like, 'look over there! A butterfly! Woah! Cool... anyway, let's talk about anything else, please.)