News and notes from around the interweb:
- United ends Million Miler status daisy chain
If a Million Miler with Global Services status nominated a companion with Million Miler status, who in turn nominated another companion with Million Miler status, everyone in the chain would get Global Services status, with no potential limit.
Effective for the 2025 status year, Million Milers will need to choose between being a donor of status or recipient of status. That will effectively kill the daisy chain loophole.
- What’s grosser than gross? A freshly cleaned American Airlines plane.
@AmericanAir y’all might want to take a more time to clean these planes! The flight attendant said to me “I don’t know what that is. I don’t clean the planes.” Well it’s obviously not mine since I just sat down but I would love for you to get something that I can remove it with! pic.twitter.com/pwbVsaep6E
— Lee (@looksxlee) September 18, 2024
- The state of Air India first class
- How Delta plans new routes
- Russia reduces required number of flight attendants on each flight because too many at Aeroflot have been calling in sick
- Flight forced to divert after mouse jumps out of food tray and scurries through the cabin in front of stunned passengers
The mouse on the Oslo flight was a passenger going to Spain .
Since when is 2024 past an expiration date in 2025? Do better.
Tweet from the future? Looks like they have 11.5 months left before the best by…
Is the reading of dates a lost cause at schools these days? 25 AUG 2025 is August 25, 2025. That is more than 11 months in the future.
@jns … +1 . Any type of Reading , Writing , or Arithmetic , is a Lost Cause at schools these days .
Camal-a is a present-day example of a failure of education .
Where did all the UA Million Milers find each other? At some point and maybe still, the biggest collection of UA MMs were on Facebook, and then there would be messages going around to set up and do the daisy-chains. I suspect cash changed hands sometimes to get the Global Services benefit. The only question I have is what made UA realize now what was going on and to take action to put a stop to that? How many UA MMs were playing this game? Of the GS I see, most aren’t UA MMs. Even as the proposition of GS with MM status seems much higher now than it was several years ago, the percentage of MM status travelers with GS doesn’t seem to have increased as much as that.
Delta has a system for picking new routes? Giving up a year round low competition route like JFK-MUC for a seasonal low yield route like JFK to Sicily doesn’t come across as a great business strategy.