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It’s a ‘fish out of water’ story, with relatable observations from someone not used to traveling in the front of the aircraft.
Aviation analytics company Cirium is out with August data on airline on-time performance. Delta has recovered from saying CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike over and over to post an 80.9% on-time arrival performance, good enough for number one in North America.
Qatar Airways has a new interactive ad, where you can put yourself in a promotional film using AI. You upload your photo, and get inserted into a romantic travel adventure.
If passengers are getting delayed, cancelled, and diverted – and if their bags are lost, or they’re turned away from flying completely despite having a ticket – it’s probably happening on American Airlines, according to Department of Transportation data.
A passenger wants to know what sort of compensation they should receive after buying a full fare business class ticket to travel Qatar Airways from Miami to Doha, experiencing a lovely flight in most ways, but finding their rest disturbed by “exotic birds being transported in cargo directed below us.”
JetBlue’s seat back entertainment map now calls much of Israel “Palestinian Territories. It does so in “significantly larger text” than Israel “to the point where it is overlaid on the entire state of Israel.”
American Airlines changed its travel credit expiration policy, but by following three key strategies, frequent flyers can maximize the value and duration of their credits.
The takeaway isn’t just “don’t book codeshares in the first place” it is to remember that if an airline is rebooking you because your flight has been delayed or cancelled, and another airline is involved, don’t let them rebook you onto the codeshare if you can possibly avoid it!
American Airlines is dropping out of the S&P 500 before market open on Monday, September 23rd. It will move down to the S&P MidCap 400.
That’s not S&P’s judgment about the airline’s performance and prospects… but it is the market’s judgment.
American Airlines wants you to check your bag. Fewer carry-on bags speeds up the boarding process, since passengers don’t take a few seconds each to stow their bag. And at the very end of boarding they don’t find that they’re out of bin space and have to race to gate check carry-ons. Anything they can do to reduce that time before departure is a win.
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 »
