Kafka and the Frequent Flyer

After a horrid weekend for air travel, there's lots of stories this week questioning US Airways ability to avoid liquidation. (Jamie and I shunned the flailing local airline in our Christmas travels, preferring to plow our way through a freak Eastern Shore snowstorm on Sunday instead.)

In reading all the bad news, I discovered that a group of fellow Dividend Miles customers have banded together in a voluntary organization with the cockroach as their mascot. Apparently this curious choice is based on an industry term for frequent flyers who nevertheless purchase cheap, non-refundable fares for their business trips, thereby depriving an airline of life-sustaining full-fare passengers. Learn something new every day.