Monthly Archives for March 2018.
Air Peace is a 5 year old carrier based in Lagos, Nigeria. They’ve only been flying internationally for a year (their first service beyond Nigeria was to Accra, Ghana). They fly mostly Boeing 737s.
Their call sign is ‘Peace Bird’ and their two letter IATA designator is ‘P4’. So on that basis alone I’m rooting for them.
Alaska Airlines is selling Newark – Hawaii from $362. You can even choose which Hawaiian airports to fly in and out of, Maui, Honolulu, Kona, or Lihue. (Lihue, Kauai and Honolulu run about $10 more.)
On April 3 American Airlines will start rolling out complimentary made-to-order Avocado Toast in the mornings in Admirals Clubs. This is in addition to the popular afternoon made to order guacamole that’s available in many of their clubs.
Unlike Spirit Airlines the TSA apparently doesn’t require flushing emotional support animals down the toilet. Leaving behind the goldfish may have been done in hopes of finding them a new home if the passenger was flying United or Delta amidst their crackdown.
Want I want to know though is how this passenger managed to get the goldfish through the checkpoint in the first place in more than 3 ounces of water that would have been necessary to keep them alive.
At the end of 2015 Air France KLM’s Flying Blue program said they were working on changes that would make them more like Delta SkyMiles in order to preserve “the program’s economic balance.” That’s never what customers want to hear.
Flying Blue matters to you because they’re a transfer partner of Chase, American Express, and Citibank. And because Air France availability is much better using Flying Blue miles than with points from partners.
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Russia has elections next weekend. Putin’s power is secure, but he still has an aggressive PR campaign to look tough in advance of the polls. So we get a stream of Putin tough guy messaging, including that he gave the order to shoot down a Pegasus Airlines 737 in 2014.
Around 3 a.m. on February 17th Justin Deemie broke into a neighbor’s apartment to steal her keys. He needed her car to flee to the airport.
He drove to the Peoria airport, tried to ram the stolen SUV into the terminal, and then “breached security to get onto a tarmac and board an empty plane.”
American Airlines began the race to charge checked bag fees. First it was a second checked bag fee, then fee for the first. It became industry standard with Southwest remaining as the outlier.
With passengers charged for overhead bin space they began carrying more onto the plane. With planes largely full for the past several years there hasn’t been enough bin space to accommodate everyone, leaving the last passengers to board having to gate check their bags usually meaning that they must collect those bags at baggage claim.
A drunk Ryanair passenger was yanked off a flight after threatening to stab women onboard. Ryanair flight FR4332 from Manchester to Tenerife had to return to its departure point to deal with the man. Passengers reported that he “had a bottle of whisky on the plane” and shouted at women near his seat.
Strangely Aeroflot thinks that it’s elite frequent flyers causing all the problems and not, as I’ve suggested, infrequent holidaymakers on low cost carriers drinking too much.
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