Yesterday a social media firestorm broke out when United Airlines refused to allow passengers to board a flight from Denver to Minneapolis wearing yoga pants. It turned out that the passengers were riding on passes and their dress violated United’s policy for non-revenue travel.
However before United knew the facts of the situation, when it could just as easily have been revenue passengers, the airline defended its actions.
United’s slow roll out of new business class seats is being delayed even further because seat manufacturer Zodiac hasn’t been able to deliver seats on time.
It’s reached the point where United is taking aircraft that it cannot put into service.
I flew Southwest Airlines Austin – Las Vegas on Wednesday. It strikes me that this isn’t the only Southwest Airlines flight I’ll be taking in March. For someone that hadn’t set foot on a Southwest aircraft from 1994 through 2014, I guess that makes me a Southwest regular.
They are, after all, the largest carrier at my home airport. And they’ve re-timed their Washington National – Austin non-stop to leave after 5 pm so I can work most of a day and still make it.
A United gate agent this morning apparently told women they’re not allowed to board in leggings — that if they wanted to fly flight 215 from Denver to Minneapolis they’d have to put dresses on over their athletic wear.
The airline’s twitter team backs this up.
I’m not going to lie I love international first class, and especially flying Etihad’s First Apartment. But at most I do that a few times a year, so that’s not what makes the bulk of my travels better.
I slog it out with well north of 100 flights a year, most of that is domestic. And there’s one thing that makes my travel better than anything else: not checking a bag, but more importantly not needing overhead bin space.
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A little over three years ago the ban on using personal electronics below 10,000 feet was lifted.
Almost everyone at some point mistakenly either left their phone on in their bag, or had some electronics turn on during the flight which they only realized later. And no Really. Bad. Things. happened.
Hyatt introduced the most innovative and rewarding elite benefit in 2009 — confirmed suite upgrades. Top tier elites could confirm a suite at time of booking for up to 7 nights four times a year.
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Countryside Hotels, which has 40 properties in Sweden, offers a new relationship guarantee: “married couples who sleep in the same room and book it under their ‘relationship guarantee’ [rate who then] split less than 12 months later, they get their money back for two nights if they send in the divorce papers as proof.”
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