News and notes from around the interweb:
- $2 billion replacement for Newark airport monorail gets go-ahead
- Requesting Qantas open up award seats is an option for Qantas Frequent Flyer Platinum members, similar to the old American Airlines QMAX system.
- Barclays Wyndham card 90,000 point bonus offer useful especially for homesharing redemptions where available at 15,000 points per bedroom per night.
- JPA Design working on Cathay Pacific’s new suites and seats for Boeing 777-9
- American Airlines is in on this game, too
@AlaskaAir I see what you did there. pic.twitter.com/mgsF5xAko3
— Dan Ritzman (@lastcurlew) August 17, 2021
- In addition to free monthly sports betting for elites Caesars offers a risk-free $5000 sports bet (HT: TravelZork)
- Jerry Glass is American Airlines’ labor negotiations consultant. He was interviewed on the Airlines Confidential podcast. He says that the four largest U.S. airlines won’t ever see a labor strike, because it takes so long to get there under the Railway Labor Act and they’re so big that a strike would be sufficiently disruptive to trigger a Presidential Emergency Board that leads to a report, cooling off period, and invariably a settlement. He’s certainly right that at American Airlines the flight attendants are in no position to strike.
