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A man insisted that EVA Air flight attendants provide assistance to him in the bathroom The carrier hire male flight attendants [though it’s not clear to me what they’d have done in this situation] Unfortunately much of the Taiwanese coverage of this incident focused on the man’s age and weight for why the incident was disgusting — rather than the specifics of what happened. However @tarheeljason flags that in processing refunds for remaining travel so that the man wouldn’t fly home on EVA Air the carrier learned that he had passed away. Translated via Google translate, Cheng Zhaojun, the chief of the EVA Air Insurance Office, said that EVA Air is in the process.

Head for Points reports that British Airways is testing a redemption to spend more points on an award ticket in exchange for reducing or eliminating taxes and fees. He says that this test is happening on the London Heathrow – Chania, Greece route only (a route where there is almost no award space on BA’s 2-3 times weekly service). However it’s a way for BA to address, potentially, the insane surcharges they add to long haul bookings that makes the program uncompetitive and nearly completely useless for economy redemptions. I get off-season 17,000 miles and $40 (no benefit from the plummeting British pound) and peak season 20,000 miles and $40

They aren’t just discounted awards compared to traditional saver, costing as little as 5000 miles one way when fares are cheap. There are very few dates with traditional saver space available, but where it’s offered it’s 12,500 miles one way. Instead of having a single price for the day matching what you see on the award calendar, you’ll see that each itinerary has a different price . What’s interesting is that they’re doing this with web specials, which had previously been cheap awards, and therefore they’re doing it in the ‘old’ award calendar (since the new one doesn’t support web specials) rather than the new one which is where many have expected dynamic pricing to appear as a replacement for traditional saver space.

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