Bye Bye (Blue) Birdie and Tiffany Trump’s Italian Domestic Travel Cost Over $100,000

News and notes from around the interweb:

Better than Alitalia domestic flights: The federal government paid over $100,000 in transportation costs within Italy when Marla Maples and Tiffany Trump went on vacation this summer. I know that booking Italian trains from English websites generally costs more than buying locally, but that still seems high.
American Express sells its prepaid technology to Incomm, “AmEx will remain the network and issuer for the cards following the deal, but InComm will handle distribution and customer service”
Vueling is transitioning their loyalty program to Avios
TSA denies most reimbursement claims “for lost, damaged or stolen items” — you didn’t expect the TSA to compensate you when their employees steal things, did you? Otherwise what would be the point of stealing in the first place?
And they see nothing wrong with this:

The pat-down, done over her clothes, explored her breasts, crotch and buttocks.

“I did not imagine that she would ask me a few times to spread my legs wider and in fact touch my vagina four times with the side of her hand,” MacFarlane later wrote in a complaint to the TSA.

…“The description of (her) screening is consistent with TSA (standard operating procedure) for alarm resolution,” TSA wrote.
ANA is introducing sake in economy. That’s 7 years after attempting to offer draft beer.