New Deal Lets You Buy 80,000 American Airlines Miles At Just 7/10ths Of A Cent Each [Roundup]

News and notes from around the interweb: 20,000 miles for bringing a phone number over to AT&T up to 4 lines and 80,000 miles. That lets you buy 80,000 miles for ($140/month x 3 month minimum) $520 or $0.007 per mile which is certainly worthwhile. (Miles Earn and Burn) Unfortunately these are redeemable miles only and not Loyalty Points towards status. AT&T of course pays to market to American Airlines passengers as the ‘sponsor’ of free wifi. You have to watch an AT&T ad, and a Citibank AAdvantage credit card ad, before getting online. 80,000 miles is a better reward than a single wifi session! You don’t get to just decide where people live, but this is one idea to address airport noise complaints: We need more innovative thinking like this in government pic.twitter.com/IA260QiBe7 — Nicholas Decker (@captgouda24) July 29, 2026 Watch out for the NYC pedicab scam: I got scammed by an NYC pedicab. I took two of my family members to see the Empire State Building today and we wanted to walk to Central Park after. A pedicab driver asked where we were going and said he'd take us. I asked how much to Central Park and he said "$12." At no point… pic.twitter.com/7BVVXP1vDP — Lee Kuan Yimby (@LeeKuanYimby) July 30, 2026 ViaSat’s new F2 satellite won’t make them competitive with Starlink but it should be a real improvement for flyers on planes they equip with wifi. JetBlue Passenger Loses It After Gate Agents Enforce The Two-Bag Carry-On Rule San Francisco is suing the parent company of Kayak and Booking.com for providing rooms inventory to scam websites that impersonate hotel websites but mark up the rates with added fees. (HT: @RakeshSFNYC) Hotel booking websites have been overcharging tourists to stay in San Francisco rooms, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by City Attorney David Chiu. …The suit alleges that Book Online and Guest Reservations disguised their third-party booking sites to look like official hotel websites while tacking on additional fees for customers. The URLs change frequently, Chiu said. Booking Holdings knowingly provided Book Online and Guest Reservations with hotel-room inventory and payment systems, the lawsuit claims. Topics on this page