News and notes from around the interweb:
- This is the sort of redemption sale we only ever see from Garuda Indonesia, Royal Air Maroc flies from Miami, New York, DC and Montreal.
Royal Air Maroc Black Friday Redemption Special – 80% off award tickets from North America to Casablanca! https://t.co/YonCWyg8Z3 pic.twitter.com/AC2iuWhIMC
— FrequentFlyerBonuses (@FFBonuses) November 22, 2018
- Up to quadruple Qatar Airawys Privilege Club miles book by November 27 for travel through July 31.
- Hilton adding property with overwater villas in the UAE
- United flight attendant announces that a family of 14 on board a flight to Maui is expecting identical twins.
THANK YOU @united and @weareunited for making our recent Family (14 of us) vacation to Maui even more special!! The flight attendant that made the announcement – Thank YOU – No words can express our shock and happiness. Total Surprise!
JUST LISTEN pic.twitter.com/JhPCLcKYBx— Carla Heller (@heller_5) November 21, 2018
- Thai Airways adding in-person ticketing fee remember buying tickets in person?
- UN environmental chief forced to resign after spending $500,000 on travel this isn’t just ‘wasting funds’ if anyone is supposed to evangelize about their carbon footprint…
Thai Airways tends to continue its backward progress. On the BKK-BNE nine hours plus flight, they are removing the Dreamliners and putting the old 777-200 instead. Not that the 787 with six abreast business seats are that great, they are similar to the United 787. But the old 777-200 has narrow, angled business seats, steeper and less comfortable than the old American Airlines 767 “wedgie seats”. Still more comfortable than coach, but not in tune with the standards of other full service airlines, especially not Asian ones.