News and notes from around the interweb:
- Virgin Atlantic will fly to the Maldives but only 3 times weekly and not until October 22, 2023, and it will be operated seasonally. Still, a new opportunity for transferable bank points to get you to Male.
- United starts bringing back ice cream sundae desserts to four business class routes, effective December 1 United needs to make progress because they’ve been doing a terrible job with catering.
- Alaska Airlines will no longer provide lounge access to paid/award first class passengers traveling less than 2,100 miles (including connections) for tickets booked starting November 18, 2022 and travel beginning February 15, 2023 No other U.S. carrier was as generous.
- With the World Cup about to begin, it’s worth remember this corrupt FIFA executive who was in it for the American Express points
- Inside the old air traffic control tower at Washington Dulles airport.
The old Dulles tower is now designated as historic – it operated from 1962 through 2007. I kept imagining what it must’ve been like to be up here working when the airport opened 60 years ago. You can see the current tower in the distance about halfway through the video. #AvGeek pic.twitter.com/c2x1u8PQD4
— Tom Roussey (@tomroussey7news) November 17, 2022
Isn’t that Dulles tower going to be part of the new Capital One lounge?
Ice cream is fat and sugar. High class adults do not eat this type of food. Why not serve organic fruit and Greek yogurt? United might be behind the times. The new generation of high class adults is healthy. It’s old people with poor education who indulge in such junk.
I think there are a lot of Alaska flyers who will really not like the cutback, but for those of us with AA executive credit cards, we’ve got continued access through that.
An ice cream sundae is even better on an airplane. God, remember the ‘exploding sundae cups’ in the beginning? Someone in purchasing obviously received a very nice gift from the manufacturer of those things. Shards of glass in your tutti frutti … not good.
I don’t understand why Alaska didn’t make the lounge entrance cutoff 2,000 miles rather than 2,100 which is a strange number. The extra 100 feels like they’re slipping in a “gotcha” to customers.
The extra 100 miles knocks out Seattle to Columbus, Cleveland, and New Orleans