United’s flight attendants have voted 53% in favor of a new joint contract.
United and Continental merged in 2010, with Continental management eventually taking over, but six years later that merger is still not complete.
United still needs to get its mechanics contract done, but the flight attendant deal is a big step. They’ll be one airline going forward now — at least once they’re in the sky.
IHG Rewards Club is launching a 50% off award night redemption sale for Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean on Monday.
Japanese Star Alliance airline ANA has Phnom Penh, Cambodia starting at $426 from New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
This is a $145 fare each way plus tax, available August 15 through December 9, or January 1 through May 23 for outbound travel. Your transpacific flight needs to be Monday through Thursday in each direction. There’s a $300 change fee.
United has DC, Houston and Denver to Barcelona available from $437 roundtrip this fall.
Most booking sites will show you fares starting at $545, for instance here’s an availability calendar from ITA Software.
However airfare metasearch site Momondo will help you find even better pricing than that.
American Airlines joined Delta and United in awarding miles for flights based on the cost of a ticket rather than the distance you fly.
But if you aren’t an elite (giving you a reason to credit to American), and your ticket isn’t super expensive (where you’ll earn as many miles as before), there’s still a program that will award you 100% of your flown miles on nearly all American Airlines fares.
Earlier in the month American Express announced Daniel Patterson as the new executive chef.
Patterson is best known for his two Michelin-starred restaurant Coi in San Francisco which he is stepping down from he says because he’s too busy and isn’t comfortable with a role where he’s chef ‘in name only’. So I was surprised to see the American Express tie-in. Here are his new menus for the lounge.
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Last week Emirates flight EK521 from Thiruvananthapuram, India to Dubai was involved in an accident. The Boeing 777-300, registration number A6-EMW, caught fire after touching the ground in Dubai. It was an incredible incident with the plane catching fire, but all of the passengers and crew onboard got out. Only 13 passengers were injured.
But one of those passengers may just be The Luckiest Man in the World.
Airlines and their frequent flyer programs are known to play monkey see, monkey do copying each other’s policies and promotions. But rarely do passengers bring monkeys into the cabin on a flight. However Tuesday night’s Frontier Airlines flight from Columbus, Ohio to Las Vegas had a monkey on board in the passenger cabin. And it got loose. According to a Las Vegas airport spokesperson, Frontier staff reported to them that: “the monkey was loose, or got loose” briefly during the flight. However Frontier’s official line is that the monkey “was always with the passenger it was traveling with” so it wasn’t actually loose. Initially it was reported that a man smuggled the monkey onto the plane because a flight attendant noticed the monkey inside the passenger’s shirt. It was an emotional support monkey and he…
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Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
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