Monthly Archives for March 2024.
The government of Brazil is working to engineer a three-way merger between LATAM, Gol, and Azul. The objective seems to be for the government to save money on subsidies and bailouts with a single dominant carrier.
Americans don’t know geography, and can’t find Oakland on a map. So the airport may be renamed San Francisco. And the idea is to… reduce confusion? I suspect it may be the opposite: confuse people into booking travel to Oakland instead of San Francisco.
Emergency services responded to the aircraft in order to treating multiple passengers on-site for injuries from the turbulence. Six people were transported to a local hospital. Other passengers called it like a “roller coaster” and a “Six Flags” ride.
In the early hours of a Wednesday morning, passengers on a Frontier Airlines flight from Charlotte Douglas International Airport to Orlando experienced an abrupt evacuation while still boarding due to the detection of a strange odor within the aircraft’s cabin.
This incident involved the use of emergency slides and the jet bridge for passengers to exit the aircraft, a one-year-old Airbus A321neo. The evacuation led to minor injuries among nine of the 213 passengers, with one individual requiring hospitalization for a knee injury.
The airline’s founding was all about its refusal to fly out of DFW airport. Their intra-Texas model depended on short commutes to the airport. The DFW Metroplex has evolved substantially over the past 50 years, and Dallas – Fort Worth it itself a closer airport to much of the population.
And Southwest can’t grow at Love Field anymore, in part because no one can given the reduction in gates there that handed the carrier a near-monopoly. So DFW growth now makes sense, and they’re likely to jump in just as soon as they’re able.
The Essential Air Service program was created in the late 1970s as a temporary measure to soften the blow of deregulation. It provided for a ’10 year transition’ period in which small community service could receive subsidies. And it’s the perfect example of the old axiom that there’s nothing as permanent in life as a temporary government program. The program was supposed to end in 1988.
Instead, the Senate’s FAA reauthorization bill includes a tripling of funding for the program going forward.
I’m sick and tired of credit card coupon books, especially when they’re used to justify annual fee increases. Some consumers can make the economics work. The economics of the Entertainment Book used to work, too! There can be value here but the approach doesn’t respect my time, and it isn’t premium.
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
An American Airlines passenger was stuck overnight in Charlotte, and booked a room at the Charlotte Marriott City Center since he was a Bonvoy Titanium member.
He went to bed. It turns out that the self-closing door wasn’t working quite right, and didn’t close all the way. It wasn’t locked.
American Airlines has changed one policy that made it difficult to go legit, pay the fee, and keep fido or fifi in under the seat in front of them. American will no longer require you to forfeit your full-sized carry-on bag when flying with a pet in cabin.
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 »
