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Qatar Airways CEO Akbar al-Baker is not happy with oneworld members American Airlines and Qantas, and suggests it may not make sense for Qatar to continue in the airline alliance as a result.
He has already spoken with the head of oneworld about this and “will wait for him to come back before deciding what to do.”
Currently American Airlines is installing smaller lavatories across its domestic fleet, taking a few inches away from customers who have to go in order to squeeze in an extra row of seats.
The problem is that today American Airlines isn’t generating any revenue from its lavatories so it’s no surprise they’re trying to limit lavatory footprint.
Dave Harris flew home to Colorado Springs on Friday after a six month deployment in the Mideast. He says his “whole life for six months” was in his checked bag. It contained his uniforms, “workout clothes, gifts for..family, jewelry” for his wife.
Friends picked him up. On the way out from baggage claim tot he parking lot they all noticed a disgusting smell coming from his bag.
United Airlines had some confusion last year over whether or not passengers in yoga pants were allowed to fly. They are.
But did you know there’s an airline where men aren’t allowed to travel in shorts?
In August I wrote about a ring of thieves stealing from passenger bags in the overhead bin.
There are occasional stories of passengers stealing from others’ carry on bags, usually this happens during long international flights when the cabin is dark and many passengers are asleep.
American Airlines used to believe that ‘basic economy’ would be worth a billion dollars to the airline.
We keep hearing that basic economy is a success. American now concedes that despite those proclamations that it has ‘underperformed’.
Qatar has the best business class product in the world in its new ‘QSuites’. To be sure even their older Airbus A350 business class is very good, a B/E Aerospace Super Diamond seat and a phenomenal soft product. But QSuites are revolutionary suites with doors and moveable partitions that allow two and even four passengers to travel together in their own space.
Two U.S. routes that see QSuites aircraft have outstanding availability for four or more business class award seats for much of 2019. And I throw in another route with great family business class space with a new Qatar business product as well.
All four of these items came to my attention yesterday. On. The. Same. Day. It is apparently not just politics were we live in interesting times.
One customer reports that American Airlines was unwilling to waive a change fee when his 3 year old’s appendix ruptured — because the appendix did not rupture on day of travel.
Here’s what he should do.
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