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Air India has relaunched its frequent flier programme, called Flying Returns. Faster upgrades to higher tiers and near-perpetual validity of points make the new version of Flying Returns much better than its earlier avatar. Use your frequent-flier points wisely and you'll be able to get free air tickets from time to time. Else, the wait can be really long.
Major U.S. carriers including United, American and Delta Air Lines have suspended flying over Russian airspace.
Your identity in the tsa checkpoint is now down to only six second. >> i think the timing could not be more perfect in many ways because more and more regular travelers are coming back to travel. >> reporter: the trial will start at delta's busiest hub, at first for those in delta's frequent flier program who also have tsa precheck. passport and visa photos in a federal database are compared with your live photo. the tsa insists that file is immediately destroyed, upping security from cyberthreats and hacks. >> we've definitely taken privacy considerations into account the whole way. somebody ...
Check and even in those countries that are risk for us i think we could find a good known traveler program, a frequent flier program. i think that would help it pass legal muster if we tried to internationalize this global entry so known travelers could still travel. >> shannon: very convenient. saves a lot of time. there is a background vetting process but in so many of these cases what critics worry about with foreign countries is that we rely on them for a good chunk of that vetting. is there a way we could do that reliably being able to be confident of the information they collect on these...
They didn't obey our rules though. the students came here, overstayed their visas, didn't go to school. visitors came, overstayed their visa. so thing is, sure, wouldn't we want to have scrutiny saying you're coming for a month that you go back home after a month. if we don't know that, then i think we do need to press pause and say let's get a better grip on what's been going on. it's been 15 years and we have not fixed our immigration system. >> 33 countries is a lot of countries. and i couldn't help but notice almost all of them are majority of muslim countries. is this not a way to get aro...