Monthly Archives for September 2025.
With marketing dollars from T-mobile, Southwest will begin offering free wifi to Rapid Rewards members starting October 24. The problem is that Southwest currently offers the worst wifi among U.S. airlines.
The San Francisco Housing Authority is offering people $5,000 Airbnb gift cards to leave public housing and squat in private homes instead.
No one did more to drive consolidation in the U.S. airline industry, to get the airline industry hooked on government subsidy, or to destroy passenger experience. And he did this while furloughing more workers than anyone else in aviation history, and destroying more shareholder value than any other CEO than any airline in history.
While an American Airlines flight was pushing back and flight attendants performed the safety demonstration, a middle seat passenger told a flight attendant to “shut up,” continued to use their phone and told the crewmember she “couldn’t hear” – they couldn’t hear the safety briefing because they were talking through it.
JetBlue is expected to announce a delay to equip some of its planes with Amazon wifi, as the launch airline for the product that’s supposed to be even faster than Starlink.
Agba told officers she took the child because “God told her to do it,” claiming she believed a rainbow wall in the terminal would calm him. She insisted she wasn’t drunk, and said she remembered very little of the incident.
Aviation watchdog JonNYC leaks the results of the vote on new Delta Europe service – and Sardinia won by a wide margin.
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.
Prashant Sharma is out as Vice President of Delta SkyMiles. The airline confirms his departure to me.
United flight 1996 from Chicago O’Hare to San Juan was delayed three hours when the captain spilled coffee in the cockpit. The Airbus A321neo was already taxiing out when this happened
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 »
