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Alaska Airlines is now selling a $5 per month subscription to fare alerts. For a monthly fee you’ll receive ads about their fare sales, which you can target to specific destinations.
American Airlines flight attendants haven’t had a raise since 2019. Their contract became amendable, but negotiations were first delayed by the pandemic and have been slow since. And the value of their wages have been eroded by inflation.
The airline has offered to match the top of the industry – what non-union Delta pays its flight attendants. The union has rejected this. Now American has made an intriguing new offer.
I wrote this week that JetBlue was telling employees it would pull down flying on the West Coast out of Los Angeles. They’re doing exactly that, and making other significant changes to their route network as well.
While we can look longingly at the food offerings of yesteryear, those only existed because tickets were priced beyond affordability and competition with lower fares was against the law, at least where federal regulations applied
In fact it’s the end of the lavish meals for most airline passengers that has marked the progress of civilization.
Delta Air Lines is planning new flight attendant and ground services uniforms, which should be revealed in the coming days. Pilots will eventually receive a new uniform as well. Some of the concepts have already leaked that we’ll begin to see inflight.
Bethenny Frankel was a ‘Real Housewife of New York City’ and a ‘Shark Tank Shark’ but she’s also a travel connoisseur. She reviewed the Virgin Clubhouse Newark last summer declaring it “garbouj” and she’s an investor in award search website Point.me.
She flew to Australia for business the long way – routing via the Mideast on Emirates – and brought her daughter in first class.
At Delta Air Lines, your SkyMiles aren’t worth very much – and they expire when you do. Like Delta, Southwest says points don’t expire but that isn’t really true. They get to wipe out the liability on their books for future travel when you pass away. Both airlines literally make money when you die.
In contrast, the ability to transfer American Airlines miles at death is now official, and even online, all part of the carrier’s move towards making every interaction possible digital.
The Southwest Airlines pilot union is hiring several law firms in preparation for the carrier potentially acquiring another airline. Here’s a message that the union sent to Southwest pilots.
Real estate investment influence and course sales bro Pace Morby, followed by hundreds of thousands on social media, lays out how well-treated he is by American Airlines as a ConciergeKey member. The only thing is, very little of it is true.
Delta is the most on-time U.S. airline followed by Alaska and then American. Frontier and JetBlue are rock bottom.
Cancellations tell a different story of reliability.
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.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
