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Oct 30 2017

Here’s another piece of evidence that the US airlines don’t have an issue with subsidies — it isn’t an issue of principle, it’s about looking for a lever to get the government to benefit their business. United partner South African Airways just got a new government infusion of cash. Yet there’s no call to abrogate our aviation treaty with South Africa.

There’s not even a press release from the Partnership for Fair and Open Skies (which in Orwellian fashion opposes Open Skies).

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Oct 29 2017

A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.

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Oct 29 2017

After American Airlines moved to revenue-based mileage-earning for flights you had 3 choices where the cheapest American Airlines tickets still earned 100% of flown miles. Last spring we lost Cathay Pacific. Now we’ve lost Etihad.

But the other side of the Etihad trick is still valid, and there’s one frequent flyer program that does still award full mileage for discount American Airlines tickets.

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Oct 29 2017

American Airlines flight AA207 from Milan to Miami was operating at 37,000 feet over the Atlantic a couple hundred miles east of Gander when flight crew reported that the plane’s windshield had cracked.

Instead of sending a plane to take everyone to Miami, American Airlines brought them to New York for pizza.

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Oct 29 2017

Marriott will give you 1000 points for answering a simple question on Twitter.

Here’s the question — and the answer.

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Oct 29 2017

On this past week’s earnings call, American Airlines Senior Vice President of Revenue Management called out changes being planned for the AAdvantage program in 2018 and 2019.

He said, “we have a host of initiatives coming in the AAdvantage program later in 2018 and 2019, which are going to attract more high-yield customers which is going to increase yields.”

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Oct 29 2017

I once flew United Express out of Denver and there was no soap in the lavatory. I couldn’t stop thinking about this every time I saw passengers use the lavatory, including spending 10 minutes at a time in there.

Although I suppose that’s better than the American flight to Chicago that took off without a working lavatory at all.

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Oct 29 2017

Tamika Mallory, the womens march co-founder kicked off an American Airlines flight enroute to Al Sharpton’s daughter’s wedding, and which precipitated the NAACP ‘travel warning’ against American turns out to have been “screaming f-bombs…in front of kids” on the flight.

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Oct 28 2017

A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.

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Oct 28 2017

Delta flight DL8935 — a charter for the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder — flew late last night from Minneapolis to Chicago Midway. It suffered a bird strike damaging the Boeing 757-200’s nose cone on arrival.

And the basketball players onboard were super-confused.

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