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Here is some of the best travel news and notes from around the Internet:
- Cathay Pacific is starting to introduce fuel surcharges on some of their flights
- Citi has added restrictions on how much you can transfer your ThankYou points.
- An Australian couple was fined $1600 for sharing a beer onboard an Air New Zealand flight
- Over on Traveling Dad, here are some of the secrets to flying cheap or free on peak travel dates
- Unfortunate story of a flight attendant on Emirates who reports that her once dream job has turned into a nightmare
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Clearly you understand neither the law, nor the ins-and-outs of corporate policy. In many jurisdictions around the world, it is ILLEGAL to “BYOB”on aircraft (this flight would have been operated under New Zealand law, and I’m not sure if this is covered by law there). But above and beyond that, I do not know of a single airline where BYOB is an accepted/allowed practice — regardless of whether you made the purchase in a Duty Free store at the airport, or smuggled on a 50ml bottle of Scotch, or a 500ml can of beer from home.
Apparently the couple caused enough of a disturbance onboard that the in-flight crew notified the pilot who, in turn, notified the police at their destination . . . .