News and notes from around the interweb:
- The new and very beatable way that I’ve been talking about (and that subsequently was mentioned at Cranky Flier as well) has garnered mainstream attention with a Scott Mayerowitz piece from the Associated Press.
- How your credit score predicts which Presidential candidate you support. If you’ve got a rewards credit card you probably like John Kasich. (If you can’t get a rewards credit card without leaning on banking regulators then you’re probably Marco Rubio or Scott Walker.)
- Guess who is flying American now? (And their upgrade didn’t clear.)
- When United stopped serving New York JFK they struck a deal with Delta to swap their JFK slots for Delta’s Newark slots. The Justice Department sued to block the deal, but now that the FAA plans to lift slot controls at Newark (and since United doesn’t use all the slots it has, cough) it’s moot and the deal is off.
- Airbus will offer an A380 interior with more seats (albeit not as bad as the new high density Emirates variety).
- Malaysia Airlines (claims to have) had its first monthly profit in years.
- Someone thinks JetBlue will launch transatlantic flights, because they have a good business class seat in their domestic ‘Mint’ product. Except Airbus narrowbodies are hardly geared to the mission.
On the last item, one word: A321neoLR.
No hat tip to you in the article? You found this discrepancy yourself?
The SMI/J cracks me up! Yeah I’m easily amused
@ Gary — So, does that meat that United will still control slots at JFK? If so, what will they do with them?
This pricing strategy will likely backfire. People buying multi-city itineraries are among the heaviest travelers and when those itineraries show as a multiple of the price they used to, people will book away. Just yesterday, I was looking to book BOS-TPA-DCA-BOS and it priced out at $1600 on American and $410 on JetBlue. Who on earth would book the AA fare? Priced as separate one-ways it was more competitive, but virtually nobody is going to bother to take that step when they see the JetBlue fare at a fraction of the cost.
I’m with you, Corey. Southwest is going to love that. There are so many pricing things that airlines do that are idiotic. Today, I booked travel MSY-GUA for 14 people, and this was my first time to work with the airlines’ group sales divisions. I couldn’t believe that AA has publicly available $433 flights, but I would have had to pay $657 each to book 14 of them. Just unreal. I couldn’t stop laughing at the AA salesperson on the phone. I ended up with Delta, who charged me $527 all-in, which at least was just about what I could buy the tickets for individually.
SMI/J? I heard he has the coveted Platinum status on ConAir…
Hah! I do like John Kasich! That’s funny it works like that!