News and notes from around the interweb:
- London Gatwick airport now deploys police looking for drunk and disruptive passengers (HT: Jackie Reddy)
- American Airlines isn’t offering a single three cabin first class international saver award seat through their entire schedule
- Checking out Istanbul’s new airport
- Oprah says she hasn’t flown commercial since 1991. Of course as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, said,
If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort, provided you don’t travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.
- Bank of Hawaii Hawaiian Airlines card 75,000 mile offer ends today
- China Southern is scaling back frequencies and downgauging aircraft on US routes despite their increasingly close relationship with American Airlines.
“American Airlines isn’t offering a single three cabin first class international saver award seat through their entire schedule.” Considering truth-in-advertising, instead of advertising a “mile sAAver award,” it might be more appropriate for American Airlines to advertise a “never sAAver award.”
AA Exec: “But, but, these people are trying to get something really expensive for FREE! —- do something!”