Oct
19
2023
Tony Fernandes, CEO of AirAsia, shared a photo of himself chairing a management meeting. Shirtless. While getting a massage.
Oops: Airline CEO Gets Shirtless Massage During Management Meeting
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Requests For United Airlines Status Matches Are Up “Dramatically” With Delta Gutting SkyMiles
Oct
18
2023
While neither American nor United targeted disaffected SkyMiles elite, who felt they were being fired as the airlines employees told complaining customers to stop being poor, CNBC’s Leslie Josephs asked during the question and answer period of the earnings call whether United has seen an uptick in status match requests.
Delta Announces Rollback Of Severe SkyMiles Changes
Oct
18
2023
After Delta’s evisceration of elite qualification rules for next year, announcing the end of earning status by miles and flights flown; moving entirely to dollars spent; and increasing the amount of spending required for status substantially, as well as severely restricting access by premium credit card customers to its lounges, Delta acknowledged that they had moved ‘too quickly’ by ‘pulling the band aid off all at once’ and promised to moderate their changes for the coming year.
United Promises Not To Follow Delta In Obliterating Elite Program Next Year
Oct
18
2023
During the United Airlines third quarter earnings call the carrier announced that they would not be making changes to their elite program. Normally the lack of changes aren’t noteworthy, but it’s been a big question from members since Delta has announced big changes and even in the face of backlash has merely suggested they rolled changes out too quickly not that the changes themselves were a mistake.
“ESG But Evil” Delta Air Lines Caught Up In Environmental Scam
Oct
17
2023
The airline used to brag about its involvement with the Kariba project in Zimbabwe. Bloomberg‘s Matt Levine calls the folks involved “ESG Consultant[s] But Evil.”
No Compensation for Poop In The Aisle: American Airlines’ Controversial Stance
Oct
17
2023
On the one hand, it isn’t the airline that left the loaf. On the other hand, the customer didn’t get what they expected. Does the airline owe at least a partial refund, or like the contract of carriage says it’s just transportation from A to B with no promises there won’t be this sort of exposure along the way?
Emirates First Class Upgrades Are Easy, Great Deal
Oct
16
2023
You can upgrade award tickets! This isn’t limited to buying business class with cash and upgrading with miles. If your upgrade doesn’t clear in advance, you can upgrade at the airport. And there there are no capacity controls. And there are no cash co-pays in addition to miles for the upgrade.
Plus their first class is a special product.
Southwest Makes Elite Status Easier To Earn, Introduces New Benefits
Oct
16
2023
Southwest Airlines has announced changes to make earning status easier from flying and from credit card spend, a new benefit to top tier status, and greater flexibility for all members in redeeming their points.
New American Airlines Small Business Program Earns AAdvantage Miles, Faster Elite Status
Oct
16
2023
American Airlines is replacing its small business loyalty program Business ExtrAA with the new AAdvantage Business which is now available. Instead of having a completely separate program, small businesses will earn AAdvantage miles in their own account on top of the miles earned by travelers, and they’ll redeem miles just like consumers will.
That’s a simpler system, and there’s one clear benefit for travelers: they will earn one additional loyalty point towards their status per dollar spent when adding an AAdvantage for Business account number to their reservation.
With More Passengers Than Seats, Dozens Sit On Floor Of El Al Flight To Israel
Oct
15
2023
One passenger who flew from Tokyo to Bangkok in order to catch the 9 hour 45 minute El Al flight from Tel Aviv shared the story of scores of young people trying to get on in order to heed their call up in the reserves or enlist in the Israeli Defense Forces. There were far more hopeful passengers than seats. With the captain’s permission, those people flew anyway.
