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American’s Brilliant Evil Gambit To Undermine Travel Agents With AAdvantage Business

Feb 22 2024

When American Airlines announced the AAdvantage Business program, an odd quick was that you would only be able to earn in AAdvantage Business if you booked directly through American Airlines. But travel agents could still add an AAdvantage Business number to the reservation. This was.. odd?

And then the big reveal that AAdvantage Business customers would be exempt from the ban on mileage-earning for tickets booked through many third parties. But signing up those customers for AAdvantage Business is meant to be the undoing of those agencies.

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Why Airlines Had Lounges On Planes In The 60s And 70s, And Why Some Still Do Today

Feb 18 2024

Looking back on the dawn of long haul travel in luxurious jets, many people are shocked to learn that airlines frequently offered onboard lounges. Even grand pianos on board!

How quaint, that seems! Why would an airline ‘waste space’ with places for passengers to congregate? Modern airline executives shove as many seats into a plane as possible, even stealing space from lavatories and galleys wherever they can.

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