People Are Photoshopping The Woman Who ‘Saw A Ghost’ On An American Airlines Flight [Roundup]

by Gary Leff

News and notes from around the interweb:

  • People have too much time on their hands. Get a side hustle, folks.

  • American Airlines really is a domestic carrier, plus a couple dozen London Heathrow flights.

  • ALPA says you need “two experienced, well-trained, and well-rested pilots.” Remember when it was three?

    Commercial airlines used to have as many as five crewmembers per cockpit (captain, first officer, flight engineer, navigator and radio operator) and this was reduced to three by the early 1960s. Eastern Airlines flight engineers went on strike in response to new aircraft which no longer supported a need for their employment.

    Not yet, but eventually AI will do the job better replace co-pilots, and those arguing the co-pilot needs to be a person be the ones compromising safety.

  • I’m skeptical of the business model of a new Airbus A380 airline because there are routes when you can fill the plane (usually at lower fares) on peak days and in-season, but what do you do on Tuesdays and Wednesdays? And how do you do counter-seasonal route planning? Transatlantic for instance is hot in the summer but airlines bleed in the winter.

  • Your credit card can get swiped and you won’t even notice. This can be a tourist scam, or just an everyday thing at a minimart.

  • Plaza Premium Group stopped operating the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse Newark today.

About Gary Leff

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 »

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Comments

  1. I had a surprisingly good flight on AA JFK-DEL, this year. So, AA remains an international contender.

  2. You seem to have it in for AA. Why? In one part you criticize AA for having fewer wide bodies than United, then in another you question how a pure A380 airline will survive. Which is it? Maybe AA knows how to manage their airline better than United? I’d rather run an airline of narrowbodies than an airline of wide bodies. Instead of flying a bunch of people into ORD to fill up an 777, maybe it is better to fly 321ELR’s from smaller markets and charge higher prices for the non-stop. Hmmm. And AA certainly flies international.

  3. AA is the largest North American and # 3 South/Central American Airline. AA added international routes to Europe and Asia organically. UA bought Pan Am’s Asia routes and DL bought (more like stole) Pan Am’s European network. AA got TWA’s London traffic, Eastern’ s South/Central America network and what was left of TWA (pretty much domestic) in 2001. So Yes, UA has more widebodies and so does DL but the need them for the long haul routes, AA has great oneworld partners to cushin the blow (BA is WAAAAAYYY better than KLM). Plus when the XLRs come into the play and UA starts to retire the 767/57/772 crap they fly, then the playing field will even out.

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