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		<title>What Hotel Operators Must Think in Designing and Maintaining Rooms</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hotels and Lodging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will let the following content posted by FlyerTalk member TransGlobal001 speak for itself...“I’ve come to imagine what hotel operators must think in designing and maintaining hotel rooms. If there is a meeting, it goes something like this:]]></description>
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		<title>Earn 1,000 Bonus Priority Club Points Every Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Cohen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bonus Miles or Points]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Priority Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Promotion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.flyertalk.com/the-gate/?p=10485</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Through June 1, 2012, register early on facebook to start earning 1,000 bonus Priority Club frequent guest loyalty program points or 200 bonus airline frequent flier loyalty program miles for every qualifying night you stay at InterContinental Hotel Group properties in greater than 100 countries around the world. If you are not a member of facebook, then...]]></description>
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		<title>$1,952 Round-Trip Business Class Airfares to London or Manchester</title>
		<link>http://www.flyertalk.com/the-gate/blog/10479-1952-round-trip-business-class-airfares-to-london-or-manchester.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Cohen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Airlines AAdvantage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Airways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hilton HHonors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Premium Class Cabin]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.flyertalk.com/the-gate/?p=10479</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You read it correctly — this is not a mistake airfare. If you can book your airfare anytime from today through Friday, May 18, 2012 and you can fly from the United States to London or Manchester on British Airways from May 26, 2012 through June 9, 2012, your round-trip airfare in Club World business class will be as low as $1,952.00 — including taxes, fees and surcharges — thanks to the Jubilee Business Class Sale offered by British Airways, which celebrates...]]></description>
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		<title>Pilot Error in Sukhoi Superjet 100 Crash in Indonesia?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Cohen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.flyertalk.com/the-gate/?p=10469</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Within the past week, a Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft disappeared from air traffic control radar during a 30-minute test flight in Indonesia designed to promote the aircraft as a regional jet and to bolster the confidence that the Russian-built aircraft is significantly safer today than its predecessors — but the aircraft wound up plowing into the side of a mountain, reportedly killing all 45 people on board. Bodies of the 37 passengers and eight crew members are still being identified at this time in the tedious and difficult recovery mission. Based on...]]></description>
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		<title>Taste of London Ticket Competition for FlyerTalk Members: Will You Win?</title>
		<link>http://www.flyertalk.com/the-gate/blog/10465-taste-of-london-ticket-competition-will-you-win.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.flyertalk.com/the-gate/blog/10465-taste-of-london-ticket-competition-will-you-win.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Cohen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British Airways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sweepstakes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.flyertalk.com/the-gate/?p=10465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, British Airways is delighted to support Taste of London this year from June 21, 2012 through June 24, 2012 — and, as in previous years, two pairs of tickets for Taste of London for each session are being offered by British Airways. The dates and times are as follows...]]></description>
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		<title>Frequent Flier Loyalty Programs and the Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Cohen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Delta Air Lines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is plenty of evidence of FlyerTalk members discussing the rumors of the future of specific frequent flier loyalty programs, only to be frustrated when airline company officials neither confirm nor deny those rumors. One example is...]]></description>
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		<title>Pilot Strikes: It is Not a Good Time to Travel to India Right Now</title>
		<link>http://www.flyertalk.com/the-gate/blog/10453-pilot-strikes-it-is-not-a-good-time-to-travel-to-india-right-now.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 05:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Cohen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strike]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fourteen additional Air India flights have been cancelled as the strike by its pilots enters its seventh day, while the pilots of Kingfisher Airlines — or, as some FlyerTalk members seem to call it, “the airline that just won’t die” — went on strike as well. Air India is not giving in to the purportedly exorbitant demands of the pilots, which is supposedly the crux of the strike which has resulted in the cancellation of many flights and cost a lot of money, as well as the reported firing of dozens of pilots and the refusal to recognize their union. At least one FlyerTalk member has wondered...]]></description>
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		<title>Electronic and Unmanned Collection of Highway Tolls</title>
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		<comments>http://www.flyertalk.com/the-gate/blog/10444-electronic-and-unmanned-collection-of-highway-tolls.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 19:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Cohen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rental Cars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it pays to avoid highways with electronic tolls — especially when renting a car. After driving around Texas while conscientiously avoiding all the electronic toll gates in order to not be required to pay a $14.75 “convenience” fee, FlyerTalk member Jorgen eventually received a bill from Avis for $1.30 in actual tolls plus a $14.75 convenience fee. Although being fairly certain that Jorgen did not pass through any electronic toll collection points...]]></description>
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		<title>Only $345 More Before Midnight Tonight: Will FlyerTalk Members Prevail?</title>
		<link>http://www.flyertalk.com/the-gate/blog/10440-only-345-more-before-midnight-tonight-will-flyertalk-members-prevail.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.flyertalk.com/the-gate/blog/10440-only-345-more-before-midnight-tonight-will-flyertalk-members-prevail.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 20:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Cohen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Airlines AAdvantage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FlyerTalk]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.flyertalk.com/the-gate/?p=10440</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Only $345.00 more is needed before midnight Pacific Daylight Time tonight to reach the revised goal of $6,000.00 worth of donations to the Jason Dahl scholarship fund. Will FlyerTalk members come through with this challenge? Everyone who donates will be entered into a...]]></description>
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		<title>Should American Airlines Change its Livery?</title>
		<link>http://www.flyertalk.com/the-gate/blog/10436-should-american-airlines-change-its-livery.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.flyertalk.com/the-gate/blog/10436-should-american-airlines-change-its-livery.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 18:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Cohen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Airlines AAdvantage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[American Airlines — which currently sports the oldest livery for an airline in the United States — is considering the first major modernization of its livery since the 1930s. One notable reason for the consideration is that the fuselage of the new Boeing 787 “Dreamliner” aircraft — the first of which is scheduled to be delivered to American Airlines sometime in 2014 — is comprised of composite plastic materials that cannot be polished similarly to the aluminum exterior of other aircraft. The polished metal look is an integral part of the current livery of the fleet of aircraft of American Airlines. There is also the question...]]></description>
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