Monthly Archives for June 2024.
If passengers are getting delayed, cancelled, and diverted – and if their bags are lost, or they’re turned away from flying completely despite having a ticket – Department of Transportation data shows that it’s probably happening on American Airlines. And American expects 72 million passengers this summer.
Capital One currently has lounges at Washington Dulles, Dallas – Fort Worth, and Denver. They are due to open dining-focused spaces at Washington’s National airport and New York’s LaGuardia. And they’ve just announced a new lounge for New York JFK terminal 4.
Activist investor Elliott Capital Management took a nearly $2 billion stake in Southwest Airlines, representing over 11% ownership. They released a plan to fix the airline, and it’s a big old mess.
British Airways turned around a flight to Houston on Monday after it had already crossed the Atlantic, making a second crossing before returning passengers to London Heathrow – a nine-hour flight to nowhere.
At the beginning of the year, one American Airlines flight attendant put out a warning to aspiring cabin crew: don’t become a flight attendant unless you’re going to Delta. You’d think that efforts to unionize flight attendants at Delta face an uphill battle – and they do.
That’s why the latest tactics of Sara Nelson’s AFA-CWA are so interesting.
El Al says it will buy “around” 30 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft “in a deal estimated to be worth between $2 billion-2.5 billion” (which means it’s about half that amount). Deliveries will begin in 2027.
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.
A Delta Air Lines flight attendant shares some basic advice for the best way to ask out a member of the cabin crew on your flight: do it discretely and at the end of a flight, and I would add hopefully after you’ve made a connection of some kind over drink service, trash pickup or in the galley.
Airlines allow passengers to bring service animals on planes without extra charges, placing the burden of accommodating these animals on other passengers, often leading to space and comfort issues.
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.
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 »
