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Spirit Airlines Crisis Deepens With Another Major Round Of Route Cuts In Bid To Avoid Collapse

by Gary Leff

Oct 26 2024

The business model isn’t working. They don’t have long haul international service that customers have wanted to buy. They don’t have airline partnerships to sell those products on other carriers, or pick up connecting traffic from other airlines either. And they’ve been the downmarket product that’s very much out of favor, as customers have increasingly been interested in paying more for a better experience. (Spirit has even shifted its business model chasing that business.)

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Two Recent Airline Changes Opened An Unexpected Way to Fly First Class For Less—Here’s How to Use It

by Gary Leff

Oct 26 2024

I’ll take it a step further and explain how airlines offering these buy ups actually discourages passengers from buying first class outright (and you should consider this as a strategy to buy first class for less).

The elimination of change fees during the pandemic mean that you should consider buying coach instead of first class.

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Two Simple Tips To Unlock The Best Points Deals With Air France KLM Flying Blue

by Gary Leff

Oct 26 2024

Lately there have seemed to be fewer 50,000 point business class awards between the U.S. and Europe – at least if you’re looking to fly non-stop to Paris or Amsterdam.

However Find Flights For Me reminds that an important tip for finding the best award pricing with Air France KLM Flying Blue is to remember that they often charge different prices for different destinations, even when traveling on the same flights across the Atlantic.

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American Airlines Saves Life of American Idol Contestant’s Mother In High Stakes Mid-Flight Diversion: ‘My Mom Shouldn’t Be Here’

by Gary Leff

Oct 25 2024

Season 17 American Idol contestant Dimitrius Graham sang “You’ll Be In My Heart” by Phil Collins when he was eliminated in that show’s Top 10. American Airlines is now in Graham’s heart, after CPR was performed on his mother and the plane’s captain wound up diverting the flight – saving her life.

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‘My Ice Cream’s Too Cold!’ JetBlue Passenger Sues Over ‘Rock Hard’ Treat That Broke Her Tooth

by Gary Leff

Oct 25 2024

A JetBlue passenger is suing the airline, claiming she suffered severe injuries from a “dangerously cold” ice cream sandwich served during an August 20 flight from New York JFK to Paris. Karla Quinonez of New Jersey alleges in a lawsuit filed on October 22 that the frozen treat was so hard that it fractured one of her teeth..

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Decades Of Government-Fueled Airline Consolidation And Policy Failures: Now They’re Scrambling To Investigate The Wide-Ranging Crisis

by Gary Leff

Oct 24 2024

The U.S. Departments of Justice and Transportation have launched a wide-ranging probe of consolidation and anti-competitive conduct in air travel. What they will come to learn is that the federal government has fostered consolidation, and has made it nearly impossible to have competition in aviation as a matter of policy for decades.

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Southwest Gives In To Elliott: 5 Board Seats, Stock Plunges—Is This The End of Their No-Fees Era?

by Gary Leff

Oct 24 2024

Southwest Airlines didn’t exactly surrender to Elliot Management, but they agreed to put 5 Elliot nominees on a 13-member board of directors in exchange for their dropping the petition for a special meeting of the board.

Already, the airline has given Elliot much of what they were asking for. The activist investor spurred movement on assigned seating, premium seating, partnerships, and redeye flying which are things Southwest had moved very slowly on.

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