News and notes from around the interweb:
- “Don’t use the computers in hotel business centers, particularly hotels where diplomats stay.”
- 1250 British Airways Avios signup bonus for TopCashBack UK
- Qantas introduces new business class pajamas
- Air France’s new strategy is to experiment with a low cost carrier within a carrier for international flying especially to Asia like every US airline tried and failed with domestically. Less noted in the coverage is that the turnaround plan explicitly includes more aggressive lobbying for government protection from competition with Gulf carriers.
- Ludo Lefebvre, the ‘Impressario of Pop-Up Dining’, is the celebrity chef who will be associated with the new JetBlue Mint menu. Surprisingly, celebrity chefs do matter for inflight meals.
- United pulling out of Newark – Belfast despite an agreement with Northern Ireland to take subsidies for service
- The Department of Transportation wants to condition anti-trust immunity for a Delta-Aeromexico joint venture on divestiture of slots for 6 new daily international flights from New York JFK and for 24 new international flights from Mexico City.
- American’s pilots are unhappy with current pay and want to re-open talks early. Their current contract runs through 2020 but other airline pay is increasing rapidly and they’re falling behind.
Notice this year there are no free SPG points for clicking a button. Every year we had something. Now with Marriott, gravy train done.
Click bait, where is the article about pilots? Like I need to know what the pilots think from a know it all who has never worked in this industry let alone for the company who reads some blog post or news article online and thinks he is the definitive source for all things AA.
@Josh G – maybe you should look again, it’s the last article in the queue, I am not making any personal claims about the feelings of pilots, I am linking to a story quoting pilot union representatives.
It truly amazes me how you have one opinion and everything you read here simply becomes a way to reinforce and express that opinion regardless of the content of a given post. It’s almost like it prevents you from reading what’s actually written.