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Delta’s Luxe Cabin Revamp: Memory Foam Seats And Mood Lighting Can’t Hide Surface-Level Refresh

Oct 15 2024

Delta Air Lines has announced an interior cabin refresh. They’re tying this to their 100 year anniversary, presenting a new more modern image. The palette is darker. They won’t swap out seats, just add memory foam padding to some seats. And they’re adding new lighting. Naturally this is pitched as being “premium” and a new interior, to most passengers, feels like new planes.

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Lufthansa Fined $4 Million For Targeting Jewish Passengers—DOT Holds German Airline Accountable For Discrimination

Oct 15 2024

The Department of Transportation and Lufthansa have entered a consent order addressing the airline’s discrimination based on religion, impacting 128 Jewish passengers on May 4, 2022 who were traveling from New York JFK to Budapest via Frankfurt and who were denied boarding on their connecting flight due to the misconduct of some passengers on the first leg of the journey.

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December 10th Showdown: Southwest Airlines CEO Faces Ouster—Investor Vote Will Decide The Airline’s Fate

Oct 14 2024

Elliott has been talking to institutional shareholders. I can’t imagine they call for a vote they don’t think they can win. And that would mean that Southwest ousts its CEO and more closely follows Elliott’s prescriptions which turn the airline into JetBlue and American Airlines – more fees, fewer perks.

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Fly 15 Times, Earn 1 Million Miles: SAS’s SkyTeam Challenge—Is It Worth The Effort?

Oct 10 2024

When working on your own strategy for this challenge, don’t forget fifth freedom routes. You don’t have to fly Virgin Atlantic across the Atlantic, for instance. You can do that with another SkyTeam airline, and hop on a short Virgin flight in the Caribbean like Barbados to St. Vincent or Granada. Other carriers have similar unexpected short (and usually inexpensive) options too – such as KLM’s Singapore – Bali and Kuala Lumpur – Jakarta.

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