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American Airlines Exec VP Flies United, Discovers Streaming Video Can’t Replace Seat Back Screens

by Gary Leff

back of airlplane seat
Nov 10 2018

Yesterday I wrote about American Airlines Executive Vice President of People, Communications, and Public Affairs Elise Eberwein flying United in first class. She wrote a trip report on twitter documenting the experience.

Subsequently she’s shared one more detail about the flight, and I hope she does more than just write about it on twitter. She needs to bring the insight back to the American Airlines management team: the flight had no seat back video and she couldn’t watch United’s streaming inflgiht entertainment.

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Four Great Ways to Get Tons of Avianca LifeMiles (Star Alliance)

by Gary Leff

aviancaplane
Nov 10 2018

LifeMiles has largely taken over the old US Airways role as the ‘official consolidator of Star Alliance premium class seats’. If there are excess seats on a Star Alliance airline, those airlines are — in effect — selling distressed inventory to LifeMiles members at a discount.

Here are (4) great ways to generate LifeMiles quickly that are available right now. Two are limited-time offers, and one is brand new.

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Gate Agent Used Rebooking Trick to Save Money for Over 100 Customers, Now Faces Prison

by Gary Leff

jetblue plane
Nov 10 2018

A JetBlue gate agent had people book the cheapest flight available — usually Long Beach to Las Vegas — and then rebooked those passengers for more expensive international travel.

She did this 505 times for more than 100 people between July 1, 2016 and Sept. 27, 2017, treating the customers as though they had missed flights “or experienced a death in the family.” The agent was arrested on Thursday and charged with wire fraud in federal court.

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Updated Details of the American Airlines Fleet

by Gary Leff

inside plane
Nov 07 2018

I’ve created a table with the current active American Airlines mainline fleet, which consists of 945 aircraft. You can see how many seats are in each aircraft type, and how many of each type they have in service. The table is accurate as of today.

American’s mainline fleet currently consists of 330 first class seats; 16,562 business class or domestic first seats; 2283 premium economy seats; and 146,063 coach seats.

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