News and Notes from Around the Interweb:
- Qantas Bans Pork After Linkup With Emirates (HT: sobore on Milepoint)
- Boeing 787 to fly starting June 1. At least that’s what LAN has updated its schedule to say.
- Alitalia will give you a $100 off e-cert in exchange for your email address, amounts higher for premium cabin travel. (HT: Joe Sent Me Steals & Deals)
- American Admirals Club prices are going up for elites on May 1 (they get less of a discount): $25 for Gold members and $50 for Platinums and Executive Platinums.
I use my British Airways Gold status (acquired when BA bought british midland) for access. If I didn’t, I would use my American Express Platinum card. If I didn’t, I would redeem Business ExtrAA points for lounge access (one of the better values in that program, I earn their small business points with every American booking).
So hard to imagine this’ll effect me. But elites considering buying may want to do so this month before the increase.
Gary do you think the Admiral Club is going up in price w USAir taking over or has it slowly every few yrs become less of a bargain?
Update: Quantas announces that after it’s linkup with Emirates, all female FAs will wear burquas. Female passengers unaccompanied by a male relative will be denied boarding. The IFE systems will now only carry the Koran, in both written and spoken versions, available in your choice of 30 languages. All mixed drinks will now come only in the virgin form, including their new feature drink, the “30 Virgins” {TM}. They will be changing their name to Quarantas Airlines, with a new theme song: “The wind whispered Sharia”….
Robert,
Have you ever been on Emirates flight? If you did, you would not make these silly comments. Thanks for the insults. Keep up the bigotry.
Shame on you Robert…you are pathetic
My comments were not about Emirates. In fact, I have no problem with Emirates using this policy for it’s own flights. Emirates is an airline from an officially Islamic country, and they should be allowed to run things as they wish. Then everyone can choose to fly with them, or not.
What I object to is Quantas adopting principles of Sharia and imposing them on their own passengers, most of whom will be non-muslims en route from Oz to Europe. The rule from the Koran is that muslims should not choose to eat pork. It doesn’t say anything about flying in the same cabin as non-muslims who choose to eat pork.
Were Quantas to announce that meals on it’s flights would be strictly Kosher, or that they would not serve meat on Friday in keeping with Catholic tradition, I would feel the same way.
My objection is to the imposition of Sharia principles on non-muslims. And to Quantas being so willing to not only impose them, but to make a public announcement about that impositiion.
Robert, you are clearly missing the point. Most Asian airlines (and frankly any sensible one) already serve halal for all of their non-pork options. Not serving pork is taking it a step further but it applies only to two routes (SYD/MEL-DXB-LHR). You can still get pork on your fork to every other destination.
Frankly, if they hadn’t of announced it, no one would have paid any attention to the decision to go completely halal on the flights via DXB and they wouldn’t have missed the pork. It’s only because they were open that the bigoted crap has come out.
@Robert Hanson. Very funny:)
@Russ At least someone understood my post was mainly tongue in cheek, and not at all meant as a rant. Thanks for getting it. 😀