Monthly Archives for August 2017.
Yesterday I wrote that Delta is adding surcharges to business class tickets for their new Airbus A350 product. Their new business class has doors. So it’s expected to be a better product, and they’re going to charge more for customers who want to fly it.
One of the things I love about having moved to Austin three years ago is the airport. It’s got the smell of barbecue, even if I don’t think Salt Lick Barbecue is very good — let alone the airport’s version. There’s often live music.
But there are three areas where they’re ‘cutting edge’ for me.
This raises an interesting question, it’s clearly possible for American to negotiate such arrangements where they (1) offer Flagship Dining, (2) are in the same terminal as a oneworld partner which offers an international first class product, (3) which doesn’t have its own lounge.
It will be interest to see whether British Airways and Qantas will arrange access in Dallas once the First Dining facility opens there, for instance.
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On July 20 Southwest Airlines flight attendants challenged passengers to a toilet paper race inflight from Raleigh to Denver.
The two sides of the plane were pitted against each other “for a chance to be the first to deplane” — presumably most of the passengers not realizing one side of the plane simply doesn’t deplane before the entire other side.
Delta’s Airbus A350 is the first aircraft with their new business class, a Thompson Vantage XL seat with doors added on to make it a suite. The first routes where the plane will operate are Detroit and Atlanta to Seoul.
oneworld member airberlin has among the worst-performing financials of any airline in the world. In the first quarter its operating margin was -42%. Disastrous investments in airberlin and Alitalia led to the ouster of Etihad’s CEO.
You can earn 1000 Marriott points for setting up and using Visa Checkout once through September 24.
Ryanair has called for airports to crack down on selling alcohol to drunk passengers. They want to ban sale of alcohol before 10 a.m. and to limit the number of drinks that can be sold to a passenger.
Notice that they don’t want to stop selling alcohol themselves and in fact by preventing people from boozing it up before flight, they’ve got customers more likely to want to buy from the airline.
A man is considering proposing marriage at airport security and he asks the internet for advice. It wouldn’t even be the first time this has happened.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
