The Electronics Ban is now confirmed and will be rolled out over the next 3-4 days by a lot of the middle-eastern airlines, and some African ones too. If you are flying from Asia to the US of A via these regions over the next few days, check out all the information you need to know, here!
The Electronics-on-board ban for American flights originating from certain Middle-Eastern and African airports seems to have some more news with information about the 8 countries and 10 airports which may be affected by the ban.
A strange tweet from Royal Jordanian explains that passengers in and out of the USA flying their carrier, amongst others won’t be able to carry their electronics on board the plane with effect from March 21, 2017. This seems to be instructions applied to all middle-eastern carriers. Here are the few details we have as of now.
Last year, I clocked more than a million miles. A lot of them without being on a plane. Here are the details of how it was done, and perhaps, you could do it too!!
JetPrivilege is offering a bonus of 30% JPMiles when you convert your credit card and hotel points to JPMiles. Not just that, you also get a 1000 JPMiles bonus when you convert for the first time to JPMiles.
Last Year, Jet Airways introduced short haul catering which would include Krispy Kreme Donuts and Subway Sandwiches. Then, it seems to have quietly killed it all!
JetPrivilege is offering a discounted sale of JPMiles. If you are in the market for JPMiles, you should pick up some of these promotions now before they go away! The sale is valid through March 31, 2017.
Emirates is launching a new mobile-phone based meal ordering service shortly, where your orders quickly travel to the galley on a phone/tablet combination, just like a restaurant, and leave no room for error.
Air India is now offering their Gold and Maharajah members the ability to cancel and reschedule tickets for free. This is a welcome upgrade in the Flying Returns program.
Etihad is going to withdraw their A380 service from India from July 1, 2017. That would make it perhaps one of the quickest turnaround from “India is an important market” to “India, you don’t make us enough money!”
Vistara and Singapore Airlines have started to offer elite member privileges to each other’s frequent flyer members which include lounge access, extra checked-in baggage allowance, priority check-in and boarding benefits. This has been much awaited and finally, one more step towards integration of the two carriers.
