News and notes from around the interweb:
- Finnair will begin weighing passengers at the Helsinki airport. As always, this is to validate average weight measures that are used for safety calculations.
- Virgin has acquired a London Heathrow slot pair from Romanian carrier TAROM for $27.5 million
- British Airways is changing the period in which members qualify for status. Historically you’ve had a year-long period based on when you joined the program. They’re switching this over gradually to an April – March qualifying year.
Starting in April 2024 members move over to this new year. Everyone’s member year will end March 2025.
And to ensure that everyone gets a full 12 months to qualify for April 2025 through March 2026 status, they’ll double count any months from April 2024 until your current qualifying year-end twice. They also shorten the seven week grace period between the end of a qualifying year to status expiration from 7 weeks down to one month. - Day in and day out this drives me bonkers.
Had to gate check our bags…told that the overhead bins were too full. This pic was 30 seconds before they closed the door
byu/tinfoilzhat inamericanairlines - Taylor Swift sells her Dassault Falcon 900LX in advance of the Super Bowl. It lacks the range to fly Tokyo – Las Vegas non-stop, and the cabin doesn’t allow Travis Kelce to stand up straight (the cabin’s height is only 6’2″).
- Antisemitic Congresswoman wants Jews eradicated from Israel and Delta flight attendants unionized even though that would be bad for Delta cabin crew. This is not an anti-union point. It works well at Southwest, and the weakness of the flight attendants union at American notwithstanding I don’t think I’d want to be a cabin crew at American without one. But at Delta they’re far better off without paying dues to AFA-CWA.
That a person’s BMI will be their ticket price is an inevitability.
Airlines will be able to capitalize on that and they will structure fares such that regulators are powerless to do anything. Finnair sees the dollar signs here.
https://brothke.medium.com/your-bmi-is-your-ticket-price-the-next-dimension-in-airline-pricing-c0592c755a8f?sk=6d63de598dbaa96540b9f3fc9255e571
Taylor will have to build a bigger hanger. The one she has now at BNA will barely fit the two jets she owns. Or somebody will have to be parked outside.
Very Happy to see a company is actively Stopping carry-on bags , which are a menace .
Finnair: Why not use one of those large industrial scales that a dozen or so people could fit on? It would be a lot quicker. You don’t care if Emma is 100 or 600 pounds; you want to know the total weight on the aircraft. No need for individual embarrassment here.
I have long thought airlines should charge by weight. For example, every pax gets 100 kilos. Mix and match any way you want — bags or belly.
Finally, yes. I will like it when the fat asssses pay their fair share, and stop complaining about little children who they think should pay more than their bulky body, for the privilege to sit next to their parents.
Great idea, tax all fatties!
TAROM has denied selling LHR slots to Virgin Atlantic.