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Currently the union is in the midst of officer negotiations. Union leadership can’t compromise prior to their own elections. A savvy National Mediation Board would encourage negotiations to continue past the results of these member elections, when leadership may be in a better position to negotiate without immediate fear of their roles.
American Airlines is preparing to fly from New York JFK to Tokyo Haneda airport, opening up transfers to New York for flight attendants who speak Japanese.
This suggests they’re confident in winning the Tokyo Haneda slot given up by Delta (which no longer wanted to fly from Portland) – that the Department of Transportation will award it to them rather than to United which has proposed using the slot to fly from Houston.
A snake slithered around a flight from Bangkok to Phuket, Thailand on Saturday, and a flight attendant was forced into the role of herpetologist, capturing the reptile and calming the nervous cabin. A passenger shared her story and filmed the capture, She said upon flying back to Phuket after completing her studies in Bangkok the snake was spotted on the plane after the captain had announced that they were about to land and not leave their seat. She continued napping but woke up fully when the person seated next to her became agitated and told her that there is a snake right above them. She was stunned and did not know what to do, stay put in her seat or dash to safety. @utusantvofficial Kejadian pada 13 Jan 24 itu disedari kru penerbangan ketika melakukan…
While the Airbus A321XLR is still in the future – the aircraft hasn’t been certified yet, so Airbus can’t deliver any – American is beginning the process of switching its existing fleet of A321T planes into the standard, less luxurious configuration.
American Airlines appears to be telling flight attendants that it has plans to re-start Chicago to Honolulu flying, listing the route on the bid sheet that cabin crew use to express preferences for the flights that they will work.
Brazilian airline Gol was the worst performing stock on the country’s benchmark index on Tuesday, dropping at one point as much as 13%, on reports that it is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States within a month. An out of court restructuring, however, is seen as “increasingly inviable.”
Airbus has submitted a request to the FAA. to allow it to put business class suites with doors on Airbus A321neo narrowbody aircraft.
It’ll be interesting to see how this proceeds, since JetBlue really doesn’t have another game plan. They face tremendous uncertainty, but certainly could succeed with a time-consuming appeal. Their costs grow each and every month that the merger isn’t called off, however.
Better, perhaps, would be to revisit a deal with American Airlines akin to the one American has with Alaska Airlines, involving frequent flyer program reciprocity and codeshares – something the judge in that trial expressly suggested would be legal. They’d continue to return money-losing slots in New York to American. That won’t solve all of their problems but is likely a better path – having a partner in strong financial centers that allows them to double down on their co-brand credit card – than pursuing an acquisition of Spirit that wasn’t great for the airline or investors to begin with.
On Tuesday at New Chitose Airport near Sapporo, Japan, a Korean Air Airbus A330-300 collided with a stationary Cathay Pacific Boeing 777, which was unoccupied at the time. This incident, involving no injuries, occurred amidst snowy conditions. More than 45 flights were cancelled due to weather.
The Cheapening continues. While some airlines offer business class passengers amenities inside nice leather reusable bags, or hard side plastic Tumi suitcases, American Airlines has been giving out a new amenity kit in international business class that’s made out of cardboard.
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 »
