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Stranded and Furious: Why Everyone Loses Their Minds Dealing With Airlines (And How To Fight Back)

by Gary Leff

Aug 18 2024

I find that things go wrong with my travel quite often. Airlines fail to ticket reservations. I get put on standby for an earlier flight with the wrong priority. Requests I make don’t get entered. Seat assignments disappear. Names get misspelled on tickets even when I have reservations agents spell them back to me.

These things go wrong and I’m supposed to know what I’m doing. So sometimes I wonder how the average traveler manages to get from one place to another at all. Maybe they don’t?

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Unprecedented Pilot Wages In Peril: Is The Golden Era Already Over? JetBlue Cockpit Crew Think So

by Gary Leff

cockpit with pilot
Aug 18 2024

Pilots have been seeing record wages in new deals at the major carriers, in the face of paying too many to retire at the depths of Covid while not adding more to the pipeline, a recovery in air travel, and the time and cost to introduce new pilots as a result of government regulation lobbied for by the big pilot union ALPA. The tide may be about to turn.

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When Your Airplane Seatmate Takes Your Legroom: The Infuriating Space Battle No One Talks About

by Gary Leff

back of airplane seats
Aug 16 2024

The space underneath the seat in front of you usually belongs to you. Not every passenger respects this. Your seat opponent may use the space in front of them and the space in front of you. When you arrive at your seat, there’s already a bag sitting where your feet should go.

They might even put their stuff in front of your seat and not in front of theirs to give themselves the extra legroom.

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Will You Dare To ‘Rawdog’ A Flight? Outrageous New Game Challenges You To Stare Into Space For Hours—Only The Fearless Survive!

by Gary Leff

Aug 15 2024

It’s the right stupid game for this stupid timeline we live in. Rawdog Simulator.

This summer ‘raw dogging’ has been the rage, because someone decided that it means sitting on a plane staring into space with nothing to do – nothing to read, no inflight entertainment – and the phrase itself sounds vaguely transgressive.

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Tuesday Showdown: Alaska-Hawaiian Merger on the Edge as DOJ Extends Deadline Once More

by Gary Leff

Aug 15 2024

A deal should be possible, notwithstanding that the Biden administration has opposed most forms of consolidation and cooperation (successfully in the airline industry, less so outside of it).

They need a little more time to get something done – and the parties still seem to think it’s possible – as suggested by another extension this time through the end of Monday.

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