Hungry for Points

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These days, it's pretty rare to find an airline making positive enhancements to it's frequent flyer program. Usually the "changes that you'll like" are quite the opposite, with those takeaways packaged with a trivial enhancement just to help with the...

It's a sad day for me - I woke up to an ominous email from Citibank with the subject line "Account Closure - Important Information".
It's the credit card equivalent of getting a text from your significant other with the message "Need to talk to you right now, really important call right away!!!". While that conversation usually turns out to be a false alarm, along the lines of them...

Be careful the next time you purchase Wifi on board your flight, as one Singapore Airlines passenger learned the hard way when he was stuck with a shocking bill for $1,200!
He had purchased a Wifi package for ~$30, and during the course of his flight had just 155 page views, and also uploaded a 4MB PowerPoint file which took over an hour due to the slow connection speed. Here's a copy of his bill:...