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At the start of the pandemic, American Airlines filed for codeshares with Philippine Airlines amidst fairly outlandish rumors they’d fly to Manila.
That codeshare is now a reality.
United was willing to assure customers that the man wasn’t flying planes three weeks ago. And they do not appear willing to make any such assurance today.
Claiming the basis for decision-making is the environment, rather than to reset employee expectations, is something of a farce. But the ‘compelling business purpose’ exception hints that the underlying reason is to require employees to offer a business justification, rather than presuming business class as a right.
Days after Virgin Atlantic announced that they’re increasing the price of awards on their U.S. partner for traveling within the U.S. and across the world – except for travel between the U.S. and Europe – British Airways has gone ahead and imposed its own unannounced devaluation for travel on American Airlines and Alaska Airlines.
Right now there’s especially good availability on the New York JFK – Frankfurt route and to a lesser extent Houston – Manchester in business class. And at times there’s even award space for whole family, not just for a couple.
Is your view of Air India changing, or will they need to fly the new planes and new interiors, and show that corporate investments translate into inflight service before you’ll believe that they’re different?
Hawaiian Airlines has submitted a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that outlines what will happen to HawaiianMiles miles and elite status under the deal to be acquired by Alaska Airlines
Many European readers will love, love, love this – and also those in the Mideast. Royal Jordanian is offering a status match and it means benefits including lounge access when you fly American Airlines, British Airways, Iberia, Qatar and more.
Bottom-line on this deal, think $149 for 12 months of lounge access and airport priority when you travel with any oneworld airline.
United’s flight attendants union – the same union that downplayed boarding pay at Spirit – wants to one-up Delta, American, and SkyWest.
They want boarding pay like Delta, and like what’s been offered at American (50% pay), but they also want “Ground Time Pay” (50% pay).
A woman on board Delta flight 2178 from Newark to Atlanta confronted a flight attendant who refused to help an older Black woman who was struggling to put her carry on bag in an overhead bin. The crewmember refused to help, saying it isn’t her job.
To the passenger, that’s precisely her job. The flight attendant responded by saying the passenger was harassing her, and had the captain remove her from the aircraft. She was embarrassed and inconvenienced for stepping into what she saw as both poor service and discrimination.
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 »
