News and notes from around the interweb:
- Priority Pass-eligible restaurant Timberline Steaks & Grill at Denver is closing because its lease is ending. It will be combined with adjacent spaces to create a new restaurant. (HT: lenin1991)
- Japan Airlines presented their ‘vision’ yesterday (.pdf) and it includes launching a new route to the West Coast next year. My guess is San Jose or Seattle, even though neither is a hub for their joint venture partner American Airlines. (I have a hard time seeing Phoenix make sense due to lack of O/D traffic.)
Plans to launch a new route to the west coast of North America, thereby further improve connectivity between North America and Asia, in FY2019.
- Thai Airways Royal Orchid Plus is 25 years old and reports 3.5 million members.
- Register for 100 bonus Business ExtrAA points with your next qualifying flight by May 31 (HT: One Mile at a Time)
- Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer has delayed implementation of its new award fees which were supposed to go into effet March 1 until May 1.
- The Park Hyatt Kuala Lumpur is supposed to open in 2021, and will be the tallest skyscraper in Southeast Asia. I already love the Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur, and will be thrilled to try this new hotel, but bear in mind these sorts of projects never open on time.
- What a flight attendant’s job is like
what a difference between JAL and the garbage US3 with their drunk incompetent CEO’s and bitter air and ground crew
Recently I flew with JAL, singapore and cathay, long and short flights, including domestic and international
what a difference from start to end, inside and outside the aircraft….
Scott -I drag people off-Kirby and DoUIg Parker should be sent to a Siberian labor camp (onboard a Jal aircraft as a send off gift)
The timberline isn’t closing this year, only the smoking lounge. But next year it will combine and become a new restaurant owned by the same people.
Don’t jinx us Gary. PHX-TYO nonstop would be awesome. PHX-CTS would be totally impractical business wise but would be heavenly for me.
Phoenix isn’t on the West Coast.
@Christian;
West Coast; West of the Mississippi….. it’s all the same, isn’t it?
A new Four Seasons hotel is opening up in KL this summer:
https://www.fourseasons.com/kualalumpur/
@rami – Good one. Thanks, I needed that.
I can’t believe it’s SJC because ANA is already there and I question whether there’s enough capacitiy to support two carriers…though if JAL flew to HND and not NRT that could siphon some traffic from ANA.
I think it’s Seattle.
@Gary@Doug Swalen
I think it is Seattle, with Portland coming second on my list
SJC is saturated (maybe?) due to ANA AND proximity to SFO
Seattle would make sense as hub to Alaska, and perhaps also Portland as mini Alaska hub and connections eastbound….
Can you imagine a JAL passenger originating in NRT nad then connect in PHX to his domestic connection to, lets say, Miami, or Kansas, or New Orleans, and he is welcomed by an angry bitter granny who is in the back reading Jackie Collins books or working on her schedule?
Talk about culture shock for a Japanese passenger
just my 2 cents…