Monthly Archives for August 2025.
American Airlines flight 2350 from Dallas – Fort Worth to Mexico City was delayed more than 5 hours on Friday. First, passengers had to wait on a replacement aircraft reportedly due to a “leak” and then passengers boarded another Boeing 737-800 only to have water flow out into the aisles from a lavatory. They needed another plane – or a boat.
After pitching the role that AI will play in generating incremental revenue for the airline to investors, Delta now says there’s really nothing to see here. Asked by Senators to address their plan to use information about individual customers to figure out how much they’ll pay, Delta says they aren’t doing this at all.
I hear all the time that food on an airplane doesn’t matter. You’re not up in the air long enough. You won’t get a great meal like you can on the ground anyway, and “nobody decides who to fly because of the food.” That isn’t true – differentiated products win.
I wouldn’t order a coffee on my next flight if I were this pilot – or ask for a flight attendant’s help blocking off the lavatory.
Teterboro, 12 miles northwest of Midtown Manhattan, is the primary private jet airport in the region. It has two runways, with runway 1/19 7,000 feet. There are around 200 takeoffs per day, making it the busiest airport for purely private operations in the U.S. About 55% of airport traffic is private jets, with the rest light jets, turboprops, and helicopters.
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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 »
