On September 4, 2019 Kati Piri (photo), a Dutch Member of the European Parliament (MEP), takes an important initiative. She writes a
letter to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky while 40 MEPs sign it. The MEPs request him not to extradite Volodymyr Tsemakh to Russia.
Released from jail
Until September 5, 2019 Tsemakh is the only person connected to the downing of flight MH17 held in jail. But on that day the
Kiev Court of Appeals decides to release him from jail. Thus, it overturns the decision of...
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Airlines started nickel-and-diming their customers more than a decade ago. Their ancillary revenue has been growing ever since. IdeaWorksCompany’s definition of this kind of revenue is: “revenue beyond the sale of tickets that is generated by direct sales to passengers, or indirectly as a part of the travel experience.” An important role plays the co-branded credit card.
2. Commission-based products.
3. Frequent flyer activities.
4. Miscellaneous sources such as advertising.
5.... 
A flight by the Vietnamese airline 
Federal prosecutors in Atlanta claim that a man has fraudulently accumulated more than 42 million frequent flyer points worth $1.75 (€1.58) million. This is remarkable for at least 2 reasons. First, how is illegally reaping frequent flyer points on such a large scale possible? Second, isn’t the reported value of the points extremely high?
Many occasional flyers are members of frequent flyer programs. They hope to earn sufficient miles to order a reward ticket. But they never will, because their miles will expire before they will have earned sufficient miles.
For airlines, however, it is rational to have this kind of members in their programs. Those travelers are willing to pay higher prices for their tickets because of the miles they will earn. Usually, they don’t realize that it will take too many years to collect enough miles for a reward ticket.
Strikes are rare in the Netherlands. The polder model is an important institution to control labor unrest. But currently the model doesn’t work at 
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