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Alitalia became ITA Airways (Italia Trasporto Aereo) after a restructuring aimed at keeping Italy’s national airline afloat.
Before the pandemic Alitalia was losing 2 million euros a day.
Local media in Argentina is reporting that Delta has made an offer to buy Aerolineas Argentinas.
You can earn rewards for the purchases you’re going to make anyway. Stores will pay commissions to send them buyers Shopping portals rebate much of their commission to you, to get you to use their links So you can get miles, points or cash for the things you’re going to buy anyway. A new tool ups the game.
A Spirit Airlines plane was hit by bullets while flying over Port-au-Prince. They landed safely in Santiago, Dominican Republic, however a flight attendant was reportedly grazed by a bullet. Video from crew inside the aircraft show bullet holes.
A first class passenger flying American Airlines from Dallas to Grand Rapids, Michigan on Sunday had a surprise – the person sitting in front of them in seat 2C had an extra special premium seat. The seat reclined more than most first class. And American didn’t even charge them extra! Some might say the seat was “broken” but I prefer to think of it as “angled flat.”
One thing that not enough parents consider when naming their child is how a name will appear on upgrade lists. What does the combination of first three letters of last name plus first initial do?
Airlines could board faster, and that’s valuable. But the requirements they’d have to impose to do it would be too costly on families, and wouldn’t meet the needs and preferences of customers either. Once they begin shifting away from the ideal for speed, additional alterations make sense. Airlines have ultimately settled on what really does work best for their business – a tradeoff between speed and other priorities.
On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston rejected the American Airlines appeal to reinstate its Northeast Alliance with JetBlue. I wrote after oral argument that “questioning by the judges…seemed more skeptical of American than of the government.”
A Delta Air Lines passenger in Detroit allowed their dog to dine at the lounge buffet, openly defying Delta’s strict no-pet policies as staff appeared to ignore the rule violations, coming off a dog eating in the new Delta One JFK restaurant and another flying up front against airline rules.
United Airlines supported affirmative action in California, adopted speech codes; committed to choosing board members on the basis of race; and encouraged the use of pronouns by employees. They’re making big bets on biofuels and electric planes. And they imposed vaccine mandates on employees during the pandemic, before the Biden administration attempted to do so.
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 »
