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Around 2:30 a.m. on August 5, wandered around unadorned through the hotel’s reception, bar areas, and into the gym and spa after an extended drinking session. Passengers at the resort recognized him as the pilot of their inbound aircraft and alerted the airline.
American has become very aggressive in making upgrade offers, especially on flights that don’t appear to be selling in domestic first class. But it’s not just buy ups where American has gone down market. Looking for a one-way trip from Washington DC to Austin that I need in the coming weeks, the first 9 options all had first class just $100 more than coach.
Brussels Airlines is set to relaunch Tel Aviv service on August 13, but the baggage-handling workforce that would service the flights is urging against it and demanding that workers be permitted to refuse to work any Tel Aviv routes without penalty.
FBI agents complain that Southwest Airlines is frustrating to deal with in unruly passenger situations on aircraft because passengers can’t easily be identified by their seat assignment.
Of course there are two other huge advantages seat assignments will bring,
Middle seat passengers get both armrests. They are closer to the window and to the aisle. Some airlines give prizes or bonus miles to middle seat passengers. But there’s another, hidden benefit to airline middle seats that I had never considered before.
Alaska Airlines is about to launch its new loyalty program, Atmos Rewards, combining Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan and Hawaiian Airlines HawaiianMiles. The name was leaked but we know nothing else about the branding. Here’s how the name could play out.
The elegant solution isn’t to book a window and aisle seat instead what you want is two aisle seats across from each other. Why don’t more people do this?
American Airlines announced several new long haul routes today, even though most of them aren’t actually new.
One part of the partnership that continues is that annual offer to Hyatt elites to try American status and vice versa.
A United Airlines pilot refused to operate flight 1679 from San Francisco to Cancun on Tuesday, and the flight was delayed four hours, after a passenger smoked pot in the lavatory. They were afraid that second hand smoke exposure would cause them to test positive if subjected to a random drug test.
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 »
