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American Airlines CEO Scoffs At Fringe Republicans Who Don’t Support Another Airline Bailout

by Gary Leff

Oct 21 2020

American Airlines CEO spoke to a group of pilots a question and answer session posted to the company’s intranet on Monday. In his introductory remarks he talked about the politics of the next coronavirus stimulus bill, which includes more payroll support for U.S. airlines.

He suggested that it’s only “a handful of really fiscal conservative Republicans who just think you know, who just viscerally disagree with the government doing anything that looks like you might be funding a business” who push back on another $25 billion airline bailout.

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Singapore Airlines Brings Back New York Non-Stop, World’s Longest Flight, Starting November 9

by Gary Leff

plane on tarmac
Oct 20 2020

Singapore Airlines will re-launch New York – Singapore non-stop service on November 9 using an Airbus A350-900. The flight will operate from to and from New York JFK, rather than Newark which the airline’s previous world’s longest flight used. Service will operate 3 days a week.

This isn’t like the old days with all business class service, or even all business and premium economy: the plane will have 42 business class, 24 premium economy and 187 coach seats.

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Delta Offering Status Matches Above Competitor Airline Elite Level, Including Diamond

by Gary Leff

delta airplanes on tarmac
Oct 19 2020

Delta, like many other airlines, wants the best customers of competitor airlines. And to make it easier to switch, they offer temporary elite status (a status match) and an expedited path to keep that status (a status challenge).

Right now they want the best customers of competitor airlines a lot more than usual and are doing something creative about it.

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Etihad Keeping Residence Butlers, Eliminating Inflight Nanny Training

by Gary Leff

Oct 19 2020

Etihad isn’t just dropping chefs from first class, flight attendants with restaurant experience and who are more expensive for the airline.

They’re also eliminating their Flying Nannies program in partnership with Norland College. And, with Etihad’s Airbus A380s grounded, the ‘butlers’ who serve the A380 Residence (and act as flight attendants on flights without passengers traveling in the Residence) are having their duties re-assigned.

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Thanks To Expedia, Most Customers Don’t Even Know What A Horrible Value United Basic Economy Is

by Gary Leff

expedia bags
Oct 19 2020

The cheapest tickets on United are a worse value than similar fares on Delta and Southwest (especially) but even American too. Right now most passengers aren’t well-informed and disproportionately book through sites like Expedia – and as a result don’t know that they’re getting less value, because these sites don’t tell them. Online booking sites don’t serve the people who are ostensibly their customers.

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SAD: Etihad Airways Eliminating First Class Chefs

by Gary Leff

Oct 19 2020

Etihad will eliminate first class chefs and business class food and beverage managers. It’s expected that the former may be laid off “by the end of October” while the latter face elimination “by the end of this year.”

Etihad’s first class chefs are flight attendants with restaurant cooking experience. Food and beverage managers are specially trained.

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