Brazilian airline Gol was the worst performing stock on the country’s benchmark index on Tuesday, dropping at one point as much as 13%, on reports that it is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States within a month. An out of court restructuring, however, is seen as “increasingly inviable.”
Most of our communication is nonverbal. It’s not just what we say, or even how we say it, but how we look and what we project while saying it.
There are some people who swear by red ties for men, conveying passion, dominance, authority, and strength. They’re “power ties.” But does wearing red improve your travel game? Will it help you breeze through security, get an upgrade, and get dates?
A kid had their shirt pulled out the missing piece of fuselage, while his mother held onto him. And two cell phones flew out of the plane.
One made worldwide news when it was recovered intact after dropping more than 16,000 feet out of the sky. It was found on the side of a road, in airplane mode, with details of the owner’s checked baggage up on the screen. It had been plugged in to charge, and was yanked off of the charger and out the side of the plane. There were “no scratches on it.”
Airbus has submitted a request to the FAA. to allow it to put business class suites with doors on Airbus A321neo narrowbody aircraft.
It’ll be interesting to see how this proceeds, since JetBlue really doesn’t have another game plan. They face tremendous uncertainty, but certainly could succeed with a time-consuming appeal. Their costs grow each and every month that the merger isn’t called off, however.
Better, perhaps, would be to revisit a deal with American Airlines akin to the one American has with Alaska Airlines, involving frequent flyer program reciprocity and codeshares – something the judge in that trial expressly suggested would be legal. They’d continue to return money-losing slots in New York to American. That won’t solve all of their problems but is likely a better path – having a partner in strong financial centers that allows them to double down on their co-brand credit card – than pursuing an acquisition of Spirit that wasn’t great for the airline or investors to begin with.
In this case more service out of National airport, especially to destinations that cannot currently legally have service, would benefit consumers from both a convenience and price perspective. So while Delta’s campaign serves its own interest (it always does) it happens to coincide with consumer interests.
On Tuesday at New Chitose Airport near Sapporo, Japan, a Korean Air Airbus A330-300 collided with a stationary Cathay Pacific Boeing 777, which was unoccupied at the time. This incident, involving no injuries, occurred amidst snowy conditions. More than 45 flights were cancelled due to weather.
Last summer we learned that Marriott would replace Hyatt as MGM’s partner. Now the benefits of the partnership are being detailed, for when MGM properties become bookable as part of Marriott Bonvoy “early this year.”
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Hyatt has apparently deflagged several hotels, removing them from the Hyatt Place chain, likely because their owners were unwilling to invest to bring the property up to standard. While I generally like new build Hyatt Place properties, many of the ex-AmeriSuites Hyatt Places are quite bad.
One of the properties is no longer using the Hyatt name – they cannot – but they’ve given themselves a questionable renaming?
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