PlaneReality flew United’s old business class Los Angeles – London and offers a review. Naturally it starts with a broken united.com, that’s a given. Food and service seemed ok, this is business class and not first after all. The major complaints were lack of standard power supply and lack of video on demand on a decent screen. This is the part that struck me, though: These older seats have great recline and plenty of legroom, but go for an aisle seat if you plan on getting up a lot. Like I alluded to, United could keep these seats if they installed audio video on-demand. What’s funny is that PlaneReality’s take is the exact opposite of mine. I don’t really care what kind of power supply United offers, I have an empower adapter and they aren’t…
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Osama bin Laden Gets Past Airport Security at Heathrow, Flies British Airways
You may have seen this already, it’s all over everywhere: British Airways put together a spread showing their new mobile boarding pass, displayed on an iPhone. And the traveler was… Osama bin Laden. Here are the details of bin Laden’s travel plan: Apparently bin Laden likes to fly — or at least knows the value of loyalty — because the boarding pass features a frequent flier number. And don’t worry about his leg room. The world’s most-wanted man is apparently flying pretty up in first class, seat 7C. Except.. except.. What the crack security staff at Heathrow apparently missed is that this is clearly a forged boarding pass on bin Laden’s iPhone. That’s definitely not a British Airways frequent flyer number on his boarding pass. In fact, presumably the “NW” at the beginning designates that…
Lots of Sound, Little Fury in New Department of Transportation Proposed Passenger Rights Rules
Coming out today are a new series of proposed ‘passenger rights’ rules. They’re trumpeted, in the news, and don’t amount to much — though on net I’d score them a mild negative. The Department of Transportation will require more upfront disclosure of fees for various services on top of ticket pricing. It’s not at all clear that consumers want this information. Bureaucrats and pundits want consumers to want it. But their behavior suggests that they don’t. And perhaps for good reason — travel booking in a do-it-yourself world is complicated enough that many consumers would face information overload. It’s telling that there have been so few travel portals which bundle this information for easy consumer access. The major online booking site business is fiercely competitive, and yet none of them sees offering this information as…
US Airways 100% Bonus on Purchased and Gifted Miles is Back
US Airways is offering a 100% bonus on purchased or gifted miles through July 31. Leave it to US Airways’ marketing genuises to say that a mileage purchase promo that runs from June 1 through July 31 is “for one month only” — but the bonus indeed runs two months. The maximum bonus is 50,000 miles for buying 50,000 miles, and 100,000 miles gets you business class fro the US to Europe (90,000 gets you business class from the US to North Asia including Hong Kong). This year US Airways raised the price of miles from 2.5 cents apiece to 2.75 cents apiece, and also the mileage cost of several awards. So we’ve gone from $1000 in purchased miles for business class to Europe to $1400 for the same. Still, with the ability to redeem…
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