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Your Airline Seat Preference Reveals Your Value As A Customer

by Gary Leff

airplane seats
Jan 23 2021

When you’re in an aisle seat you direct your own destiny. You get up to use the lavatory whenever you wish and don’t need to worry about waiting on other passengers to gather their belongings to let you out, or your seatmates falling asleep and needing to be woken to let you out. I find window seats claustrophobic.

It turns out that the preference for an aisle seat over a window seat also means you’re a better customer of an airline’s loyalty program, based on data.

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Lufthansa Bans Cloth Masks, Tells Passengers Get A Decent Mask Already!

by Gary Leff

Jan 22 2021

Germany approved new rules to require medical grade masks on public transportation. Lufthansa has followed suit, requiring masks but banning cloth masks from meeting that requirement effective February 1. France and Austria may add similar rules.

If you travel, you find yourself in airports and on jet bridges, if you’re in indoor congregant settings with groups of other people then you want to use an N95 mask.

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Here’s What President Biden’s New Executive Order On Travel Actually Does (And Doesn’t Do)

by Gary Leff

Jan 21 2021

President Biden issued an executive order on mask wearing, as well as testing and quarantine for international travel.

The order doesn’t actually do anything. Instead it outlines Administration policy and instructs various departments of government to come up with plans to implement. Here are the key elements of the plan that includes masks, testing, quarantines and vaccination records.

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Here Are New First Class Concepts Cathay Pacific Is Playing With

by Gary Leff

Jan 20 2021

Cathay Pacific first revealed their plans for a new first class product to be offered on board Boeing 777-9 aircraft when they’re delivered in 2017. A year later they still didn’t know whether they would offer enclosed suites and hadn’t settled on a seat supplier.

Instead they said they’d look at the current creative offerings of seat suppliers to decide who they wanted to go with, and “co-create” a new concept. With all of the delays to the Boeing 777-9 there’s been no hurry. But now there’s talk of putting new seats in their Boeing 777-300ERs, too.

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American’s New Protein Box In First Class

by Gary Leff

Jan 20 2021

Last week American Airlines shared with its pilots that they’re testing what they call ‘tapas’ in domestic first class.

This test of new meals is happening on about 40 flights a day departing from Charlotte. It becan January 13 and runs through March 9, 2021. And, a spokesperson for American shares with me that there are two versions of this new meal, a “fresh new protein box and vegetarian box meal concepts.” Here’s what the ‘protein box’ looks like

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