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United Airlines is experiencing a catering meltdown in San Francisco. The airline is transitioning from Gate Gourmet to LSG Sky Chefs and the changeover began Thursday. There have been widespread problems including severely reduced food and beverage services, inadequate onboard provisions, and confusion among crew and passengers about what to expect.
The tower controller mistakenly issued takeoff clearance to American Eagle flight AA4736. Communication was further complicated by a Spirit Airlines pilot inadvertently blocking transmissions. As American 4736 accelerated down the runway, tower controllers received an automated collision alert and attempted to retract the takeoff clearance.
You may find yourself receiving free wifi on American Airlines starting Monday. That’s if you’re traveling on one of more than 50 flights where they’ll be testing the feature in advance of rolling it out across the system.
An American Airlines first class passenger was the only one not to get a meal on their flight, and she’s taken to social media saying it’s because she’s Black.
You have about 45 days to make Amex transfers to Hawaiian (and therefore to Alaska), but I wouldn’t wait until the last day to do it.
The Los Angeles City Council passed legislation requiring “hotels with more than 60 rooms, as well as companies doing business at Los Angeles International Airport, to pay their workers $30 per hour by 2028” plus “hotels and airport businesses would be required to provide $8.35 per hour for their workers’ healthcare by July 2026. The rest of Los Angeles will have a $17.28 minimum wage
Things are going to get more complicated buying and flying Delta starting October 1. There’s a more cumbersome decision gauntlet to run just to buy a ticket and more upselling. Delta clearly thinks it’s worth it for their bottom-line.
On Wednesday, just after noon, Dallas-Fort Worth airport faced a partial ground stop due to a security issue on American Airlines flight 2484 heading to New York LaGuardia.
Airport police boarded the aircraft. The Boeing 737-800 was parked away from terminal buildings and surrounded by multiple airport police vehicles and emergency responders.
Protesting United Airlines flight attendants are now under investigation, and have been removed from flying duties. Suspending the crewmembers who disrupted United’s big media event was probably inevitable.
With American Airlines adding back a second drink service in economy on longer domestic flights, and adding back pre-meal beverage service for international premium destination flights departing before 9:01 p.m. local time, their flight attendants union is up in arms – they want more cabin crew on flights to do the service.
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 »
