Category Archives for Airlines.
For the most part, upgrades have been tough to get because (1) premium demand has grown while the supply of premium seats hasn’t kept up, and (2) airlines have shifted their merchandising to take less money for those seats from any willing buyer rather than honor frequent flyer upgrades.
However part of the reason why Delta’s upgrade percentage is so low, it seems, is because gate agents at Delta just don’t process upgrades as reliably as they do at other airlines.
Over the summer, TSA Administrator David Pekoske said that they weren’t going to make public charter operators fly out of commercial terminals, but that they would update security plans. They’ve done this – and will require new screening procedures at private terminals for ‘by the seat’ charter operators like JSX.
Big airlines have special programs for high revenue customers far beyond top elite status of their mileage programs. At Delta there’s the 360 program. At American it’s Concierge Key. At United Airlines it is Global Services. The criteria for obtaining this type of status is generally unpublished, however there are workarounds.
A Frontier Airlines passenger took to the internet to blast her seat opponent. She’s flying the airline’s Airbus A320 from a middle seat. The man at the aisle is spreading his legs into her space. That’s incredibly rude. She has so little space to begin with, and he has access to the aisle!
Ex-Reality TV star, Congressman, and Fox Business personality Sean Duffy was tapped to become Secretary of Transportation. He’s now a shoe-in for confirmation. Democrats, and even airline unions, are lining up to support him.
A Southwest Airlines pilot was arrested on Wednesday morning at Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport. The airline found another pilot and the flight departed to Chicago-Midway airport nearly five hours late.
He was stopped at the airport’s TSA checkpoint, and airport police called, because his breath smelled of alcohol.
Russia – which shot down a civilian airliner just before Christmas is planning “a major terrorist campaign against aircraft” in the West, according to the Prime Minister of Poland.
A retired police officer and his wife have filed a federal lawsuit against American Airlines, alleging that they were unjustly singled out for human trafficking investigation during their honeymoon flight from Phoenix to Miami.
It’s being broadly reported that Southwest Airlines is freezing hiring and promotions to save money, and also pausing summer internships. But the details of cost cuts are actually much deeper, and hit at the core of Southwest’s identity.
She filmed the 20-second dance clip early in the morning while waiting two hours for pilots, and was celebrating the end of her new hire probationary period. Her original TikTok carried the caption: “Ghetto Till I Die, Don’t Let the Uniform Fool You.”
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 »
