Sep
14
2015
The next time an airline tells you they want to run an inprofitable route for ‘aircraft utilization,’ be suspicious.
Columbia, South Carolina Couldn’t Understand How They Got That United Flight. Now They Know.
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Jeff Smisek’s Ouster is United’s Big Opportunity: Here’s How to Fix the Airline
Sep
13
2015
With Jeff Smisek departing United — the proximate cause being his dinner with Andre Samson, but the departure representing an opportunity to break from the past several years and get a fresh start. Because the airline has been plagued with problems, largely stemming from top leadership.
American Retaliates Against Delta, Ramps Up New York LaGuardia
Sep
13
2015
Delta refused to renew its interline agreement with American at standard industry pricing that allowed the two airlines to accommodate each others’ passengers in the event of irregular operations.
Now it looks like American is hitting Delta in the New York market, just as Delta co-brands an ad campaign with the state of New York to declare its supremacy there.
Male Model Has $646,000 Confiscated at Airport
Sep
13
2015
In June I wrote about a man who had his life savings confiscated because his luggage smelled of pot. It was one of over 90 such seizures in a year at the Cincinnati airport alone.
In July I wrote about a man who had $44,000 seized at New York JFK even though he was never charged with a crime. He couldn’t get his money back because it took him 90 days to get assistance jumping through all of the required hoops to file a petition for the funds to be returned — and the government only gives you 35 days to file in federal court.
Of course famous people who actually become abusive inflight don’t suffer such punishments.
New Contender for Worst Credit Card in the Universe and Delta Loves New York’s Apparatchiks
Sep
13
2015
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Business Class to Asia With American Miles Wide Open, No Fuel Surcharges
Sep
12
2015
Japan Airlines is launching 4 times weekly service (Sunday/Monday/Wednesday/Friday in both directions) between Dallas and Tokyo on November 30.
I was not aware that there was business class space available. I usually use the British Airways website for searching Japan Airlines award space, and that space is not showing up on BA.com. (The American and Qantas websites do not show JAL space at all.)
One-Way United Awards for $104 or 7500 Miles, and Other Great Redemption Values If You Act Fast
Sep
12
2015
Usually when airlines run award redemption sales, you’re limited to their own flights. But through Tuesday September 15, Star Alliance program Avianca LifeMile is offering redemption discounts on partner flights!
And usually when airlines run award redemption sales, you’re limited to economy flights. This LifeMiles sale even includes business and international first class.
It pairs with a big discount on purchased miles at just 1.4 cents apiece.
Delta Isn’t an Airline, It’s a Complex Derivatives Trading Firm.
Sep
12
2015
Modern airlines are really transportation system, and part financial trading firm. And sometimes they’re more of the latter than the former.
Indeed, here’s what Delta has been up to after losing over a billion dollars on fuel hedges in the first quarter of this year:
Passengers Were Urinated On Aboard JetBlue Flight to Portland Yesterday
Sep
12
2015
So this happened.
“At one point, the officer was like, ‘Who got peed on?'”
Why Delta Thinks They’re Too Good to Have an Interline Agreement With American
Sep
12
2015
Seventeen years ago I used to credit Delta flights to United Mileage Plus. You could do that back then, although it was a pain because the miles almost never automatically posted. Partnerships change.
But it’s striking that even the most basic level of partnership — the interline agreement, that nearly all major airlines have with each other — is ending for American and Delta. And now we know why.
