500 Free Miles & Crazy Lawsuit Against American Airlines Over Cuba Service Dismissed

News and notes from around the interweb:

500 free Lufthansa Miles & More miles for joining the program via Frankfurt airport’s website. (HT: You Have Been Upgraded)
Timing of new aircraft for American Airlines.

"So if they delay a little more we're ok"

— gary leff (@garyleff) July 23, 2022

MAXs coming early next year already showing a month delay, expect a couple of months' delay.

XLR pushing from 3Q23 to 1Q24 was mentioned during the earnings call.

— gary leff (@garyleff) July 24, 2022
I love it when airline employees go the extra mile to make difficult situations more bearable.

I literally just want southwest (.@SouthwestAir) to take me to Texas but I’m stuck in Chicago on the tarmac lol pic.twitter.com/eLxbS0nGqK

— André Marcel Harris, MSW (@andreharris89) July 23, 2022
WestJet’s “Wedding Singer” Flight Attendant
Vueling captain flees burning plane ahead of passengers
The lawsuit claiming American Airlines was trafficking the Havana airport, seeking compensation under the Helms-Burton Act has been dismissed.

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