News and notes from around the interweb:
- Cheap Wow Air transatlantic flights are back.
- The sweetest things airlines have done for passengers
- Airlines rush to become ‘retailers with wings’. (I love United’s URLs throughout the ticket purchase process – such as /upsell1.aspx and /confirmRevenue.aspx.)
- Inside an airline catering kitchen serving 100,000 meals per day
- Malaysia Airlines CEO getting early strong reviews.
- Virgin Atlantic flight attendants attempted to smuggle US$159,000 worth of gold jewelry into India.. by wearing it.
Unrelated, but apparently BA has followed Delta’s playbook and removed their reward calculator until 2016: http://www.britishairways.com/travel/avios-calculator/public/en_us
@Dylan, yes, they have removed the calculator but they have been pretty transparent about the pricing. You can see the rules here: http://viewfromthewing.com/2015/01/28/huge-british-airways-avios-devaluation-coming-april-28-wont-affect-savvy-frequent-flyers/. There are a few tools online that will give you a price. If you’re in the US or Canada, you can try ours at http://poyntee.com/util/points_to_go