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American Airlines promised employees they wouldn’t mandate vaccines. President Biden intervened, and now anyone who doesn’t get vaccinated by November 24 is being told they’ll be fired.
A group of American Airlines employees protested outside of company headquarters on Thursday. Some of the 4000 unvaccinated pilots are saying they’ll leave rather than get a jab. Where will they go?
Dear American Airlines, I realize that you’re based in Dallas, and top management moved there from Tempe, Arizona. So it’s understandable that you might be confused. So I wanted to share with you in unequivocal terms: this is not what a bagel is.
The airline is surveying customers on what they’re going to need to offer in domestic first class based on customer expectations.
A subset of crewmembers are apoplectic over this. And with a reported 4000-plus unvaccinated pilots, American does have a problem. The question is whether this will be a problem for holiday travel, as the American Airlines pilots union has predicted.
American Airlines has created a ‘special exception policy’ to allow name changes on tickets through January 31, 2022. Here are the details.
In an interview with Simple Flying late last month, that I only just watched in full over the weekend, American Airlines Chief Revenue Officer shared a few tidbits that I did not already know.
American is adding the ability to redeem points for higher level elite status and to convert these points to miles, but will require more travelers and activity to stay in the small business program.
In time for the holidays, American Airlines is introducing new ‘Kid Kids’ for young passengers flying as unaccompanied minors.
The world airline lobby shop IATA wants fewer restrictions on travel, and more government money. Where they’re right on the merits it’s because it’s in their own interest, and when they’re wrong on the merits it’s because they’re pursuing their own interests. And no one does this as unabashedly at current IATA head Willie Walsh.
The AAdvantage program is the annuity that’s been driving free cash at the airline for years. They’d be wise not to kill the goose, and the odds they’re good enough to extract even more value out of it for themselves without killing it seem less than 20%.
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 »
