Delta’s Airbus A350 is the first aircraft with their new business class, a Thompson Vantage XL seat with doors added on to make it a suite. The first routes where the plane will operate are Detroit and Atlanta to Seoul.
oneworld member airberlin has among the worst-performing financials of any airline in the world. In the first quarter its operating margin was -42%. Disastrous investments in airberlin and Alitalia led to the ouster of Etihad’s CEO.
You can earn 1000 Marriott points for setting up and using Visa Checkout once through September 24.
Ryanair has called for airports to crack down on selling alcohol to drunk passengers. They want to ban sale of alcohol before 10 a.m. and to limit the number of drinks that can be sold to a passenger.
Notice that they don’t want to stop selling alcohol themselves and in fact by preventing people from boozing it up before flight, they’ve got customers more likely to want to buy from the airline.
A man is considering proposing marriage at airport security and he asks the internet for advice. It wouldn’t even be the first time this has happened.
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Whole Foods is known alternately known as ‘Whole Paycheck’ although their 365 store-brand items are often competitively priced. They do have better meat, fish, and vegetables than the median grocery chain. And they’ll play a fascinating role in Amazon’s future as the online retail giant completes its acquisition.
Hyatt Visa cardholders can get a $20 statement credit when making a single purchase of $50 or more by September 25.
Passengers streamed off a jet bridge late one night in Phuket, Thailand – only there doesn’t appear to be a plane anywhere in sight that they’re disembarking from.
New York City spent $72 million on hotel rooms for the homeless last year.
Now one City Council member has introduced legislation that would require hotels to notify other guests when accepting the city’s homeless.
When we hear about drinking incidents on the part of crew they’re usually isolated, only a few at most per airline. So it’s striking that thirty Air India pilots have been found to have been drinking in preflight tests since 2014. That’s still not a common occurrence but it’s too common.
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