Monthly Archives for November 2017.
Qatar Airways CEO Akbar al Baker was just named Aviation Executive of the Year by the CAPA Centre for Aviation. Which is kind of like when he was the French Legion of Honor.
I’m not sure I agree with CAPA’s assessment of the man but there’s no more interesting or colorful person in aviation. I can’t wait for his next followup to claims like ‘Delta flies crap airplanes’ and that the major US airlines’ executives ‘are sitting around smelling glue’.
In June the U.S. government announced they would be mostly banning tourist travel to Cuba.
New rules are being announced today although travel booked before June 16th when the President announced a new policy will be exempted and certain business agreements which pre-date the announcement will be grandfathered.
Bose QuietComfort 25 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones are marked down to $179 at Amazon reportedly part of an early Black Friday sale.
Bose noise cancelling headphones are the frequent traveler standard, and I highlighted a year ago when they were briefly marked down to $199 which was a heck of a deal. I haven’t seen that kind of a deal since, and this time it’s even lower.
A week ago American Airlines suspended most of their catering at LAX after trace amounts of listeria was found at Gate Gourmet, which catered most of their flights (along with Delta, and several international airlines). That’s a smart precaution to take, but it created big operational problems. For a few days it’s meant double catering some flights into Los Angeles so there’d be food and beverages for flights out of LA. It’s meant providing food for passengers to bring onboard. American Airlines Gate-side Food Carts, 1990s – early 2000s And it’s simply meant onboard catering that doesn’t meet customer expectation. American has been providing travel certificates as apologies. Virgin Atlantic, another Gate Gourmet customer, has been handing out vouchers to each in the terminal. Via the Forward Cabin is appears that LAX has their catering…
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Two Iranian passengers flying Qatar Airways flight QR962 from Doha to Bali got into an altercation that caused the flight to divert to Chennai, India on Sunday.
The married couple were traveling with their child. The husband fell asleep, and the wife — apparently drunk — used her husband’s finger to unlock his cell phone. She began combing through it and uncovered evidence that suggested he was cheating on her.
LifeLock is the company whose CEO published his social security number to demonstrate the power of his system and dared hackers to steal his identity. Which they promptly did. Thirteen times.
Anyone worth influencing, that you’re trying to influence, you fly at least business class.
However former Trump foreign policy advisor Carter Page noted to the House Intelligence Committee that he managed to endure the flight over to Russia in economy thanks to his SkyMiles elite status
British Airways Executive Club is a challenging program already: Fuel surcharges; extremely expensive premium cabin long haul awards; fuel surcharges; few elite benefits that aren’t provided to all oneworld elites of the same tier; fuel surcharges; modest mileage-earning since they eliminated 1 mile per mile flown.
And now we can expect things to get worse.
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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 »
