The president director and operational director of SkyTeam member Garuda Indonesia’s low cost carrier Citilink have resigned after video surfaced of one of their pilots stumbling through airport security.
No one stopped him. Security staff have to help him gather his belongings because he couldn’t manage to balance them himself.
T-Mobile CEO John Legere, in a since-deleted tweet, declared to his 3.5 million followers that lack of a full room service menu overnight at the W Hoboken is ‘cray’.
Korean has a great award chart but do add fuel surcharges to award tickets. They offer super generous award holds. There are very low booking/change fees.
It’s just 80,000 miles roundtrip in business class between the US and Europe and now you can book those SkyTeam awards (e.g. Air France, KLM, Delta) on the Korean Air website.
Online SkyTeam award booking means you can now book international first class awards on Saudia, China Southern, and China Eastern in addition to first class awards on Korean using the Korean Air website.
Data for 2016 is now available from IATA and I find it fascinating what the 10 airline routes with the greatest capacity are for the year.
Some of these I knew, like the South Korean domestic route between Seoul’s closer-in Gimpo airport (not Incheon) and Jeju. And some of these I’ve flown. Japanese domestic routes are always up towards the top of the list, but pay attention and see that despite three in the top 10 Osaka – Tokyo isn’t there at all (last year it clocked in at number nine).
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Korean Air offers the best first class award space between the US and Asia of any airline. And there’s very little competition for that space — because Korean Air partners like Delta and Alaska can book business class awards on Korean, but cannot book first class awards.
They also offer fantastic value partner awards, like US-Europe for 80,000 miles roundtrip in business class. And you can now book SkyTeam partner awards online.
On Monday takeoff of Spirit Airlines flight NK440 from Fort Lauderdale to Cleveland was delayed 2 hours 5 minutes and then as it neared its destination diverted to Detroit due to weather.
Spirit decided to bus passengers from the Cleveland airport to Detroit Metro. The buses arrived three hours late. Then it gets worse.
American has several changes to the AAdvantage program going into effect January 1. More changes to the program will come later in 2017. And there have been hints of airline changes that will influence elite benefits further still.
My general approach is that ‘it’s the internet’ and that what someone writes reflects more on their own character than on anyone else. I’ve been a denizen of the internet for more than 20 years, and I probably have too pollyannaish a view of what kind of free speech community it was supposed to become that derives from a mindset formed in the early 1990s.
More importantly though I question my ability to be particularly Solomonic in my approach to moderating comments. It’s too easy to let distaste for a commenter’s truly offensive posts become a slippery slope into dislike for someone who thinks I’m deeply and morally wrong on some issue.
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