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Aisle Seats Win: 6 Reasons Smart Flyers Never Pick The Window

by Gary Leff

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Aug 17 2025

The best flyers prefer aisle seats, and airlines even value the business more of those who do. Aisle seats are just better than window seats, and we don’t even need to talk about the dreaded middle.

If you’re in the aisle seat you don’t get those window seat views, but those are better in theory than practice outside of the first and final minutes of a flight. And you do have to get up to let other passengers into the aisle if they need to use the restroom. So there are tradeoffs, but they’re minor compared to the 6 reasons that aisle seats are best.

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American Airlines Just Fired Flight Attendants For Paying Crew To Pick Up Trips — Union Fights First-Ever Crackdown

by Gary Leff

Aug 16 2025

American Airlines is firing flight attendants for offering other crewmembers incentives to pick up their trips. The union says this is new, and violates their contract. The Chicago base notified crewmembers on Friday that “Posting a trip with an incentive to drop” had led to “The absolute worst outcome available” and that was done without any progressive discipline.

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“I Had a Few Light Beers” — Footage Shows Police Pull Southwest Pilot From Cockpit After TSA Smells Alcohol

by Gary Leff

Aug 15 2025

“I had a few light beers last night,” Southwest Airlines captain David Paul Allsop told police at Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport after TSA officers said they could smell alcohol on him. Minutes later, body camera footage shows officers stepping into the cockpit of his Boeing 737, telling him he wasn’t flying, and leading him away.

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‘Don’t Be Shy About Pulling Something From The Trash’: Flight Attendants Warned As Spirit Airlines Faces Collapse

by Gary Leff

Aug 13 2025

Spirit Airlines warns it may go out of business within a year. They emerged from bankruptcy but aren’t doing much differently. They’re losing tremendous amounts of cash, and don’t have a lot left. And if something doesn’t change quickly, they can’t last. The airline’s credit card processor appears to be squeezing them, based on an SEC filing, and as they renew their agreement they’re going to have to post more cash – cash they don’t have – as a cushion against chargebacks in case they’re unable to honor flights for the tickets that they sell. And so they’re looking at the sale of additional assets like planes, real estate and gates and “elimination of certain fixed costs.” They could make it. And they’re trying to reassure anxious employees while the AFA-CWA flight attendants union is…

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