News and notes from around the interweb:
- Scott McCartney covers my award booking service in the Wall Street Journal with stories from a couple of my clients.
Also in the Journal today in Susan Carey‘s piece on American Airlines Basic Economy pushing back on the idea that seems to spread in most media that this is about offering lower fares than consumers get today (which even American doesn’t claim).
Basic Economy “is a strategy for the passenger to pay more for things they get today,” said Gary Leff, who blogs about the travel industry for Viewfromthewing.com.
No hedcut, though!
- Live and Let’s Fly was shaken down for $5.33 and a United amenity kit by an official at the Lagos, Nigeria airport.
- easyJet settled a case with a flight attendant who was wired for eating a buy on board sandwich.
- Delta Airlines cabin crew will have to go through diversity training
- Drunk Brit who grabbed his Jet2 flight’s PA and demanded a drink has been sentenced to seven months. (HT: Ken A.) My advice: when you need a drink, the flight attendant call button is your better option.
Jet2 Boeing 737 - Awards to stay on Necker Island – Richard Branson’s private island – are now limited to Virgin Atlantic elites. Although getting silver status is really easy, and they do offer status matches, or at least challenges that include instant silver.
- Hyatt acquired Miraval but their properties are not yet participating in
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Shame on Delta if it is just now requiring recurring diversity training for all employees and especially cabin crew who deal with folks from all over the world and all walks of life. Some FAs could even make excellent diversity instructors.
As far as being fired for allegedly stealing a sandwich, theft is theft. A company I once worked for fired an employee for stealing urinal cakes (otherwise known as Kentucky breath mints).
The flight attendant was wired?
“Cross, who is black, complained to the airline’s top management, which has also decided to no longer require physicians to show credentials on flights.”
That’s sure to work out well.
Delta is a super racist airline and they discriminate a lot.
I had interviewed to be a Flight Attendant there several times and because I had a very long Iranian/Persian name I was not hired despite the fact that I had just finished college with 4 fluent languages under my belt. Then I was hired by NorthWest as a Japanese language speaker Flight Attendant. I was harassed constantly because of my ethnicity and eventually fired because I reported a black woman who was stealing money from liquor sales on a multiple day trip and I was told that I had wrongfully had accused her which was not true. She stole the liquor sales for multiple days and I thought the right thing to do was to report it to the company and it backfired and I got fired!
Maybe Dariush wasn’t hired and was fired because he/she is just a difficult person, the type of personality you don’t want working in an industry where passenger satisfaction is crucial to your business success. Certainly from reading the post that seems quite likely.