Monthly Archives for November 2024.
Crowded lounges make airport lounges no longer enjoyable. If they aren’t an escape from the busy terminal, what’s the point? You can use the airline lounge for dedicated reservations agents when your flight delays, but otherwise give it a miss. And when there’s a long line to get in too, that’s even worse.
But the Delta Air Lines Sky Club in Atlanta on the T concourse took things to a new level with waits of up to 20 minutes to leave.
Alaska stopped letting members use their points for awards on most of their airline partners for close-in travel. They simply did not show award space that was being made available for anything within 3 days of booking.
Starlink has the fastest internet in the sky. It blows away Viasat and similar offerings that you’ll find on airlines like American and Delta. Bandwidth aside, their satellites are in lower orbit and the signal just has a shorter distance to travel. In my experience on board, it’s meant basically no latency. I can work in the air just like I do with a fiber connection on the ground.
Broadly speaking, Alaska Airlines offers the best soft product of any U.S. carrier on standard domestic flights (so, excluding premium cross-country routes). That wasn’t always true – but began with their acquisition of Virgin America which did a really nice job with food that was both delicious and attractively presented.
The airline has announced some new products starting this fall – from new drinks, to first class blankets, and toiletries for their lounges and lavatories.
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.
In a video now going viral, two Spirit Airlines check-in agents can be seen fighting. At the start of filming, they can be seen bumping, while one says to the other “do not play with me.” She just continues tap, tap, tapping away processing a check-in like it’s no big deal, just another day at Spirit Airlines.
Spirit has been trying to put off bankruptcy by route cuts, getting rid of aircraft and shedding workers.
Frontier was looking to buy them, despite all of their troubles.
Not previously reported, an American Airlines flight was also hit. Flight AA819 from Haiti to Miami continued on its 713 mile journey and the Boeing 737 MAX landed safely with no injuries.
Sara Nelson, who heads the AFA-CWA union which represents over 55,000 flight attendants across various airlines, said that the effort to unionize cabin crew at Delta “maybe” could come “in a few months.” Speaking at the Skift Aviation Forum she made a number of interesting claims.
Give me an exit row and decent seat padding, and I don’t mind coach at all. However, there are two caveats. I need decent seat padding, and extra legroom.
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 »
