News and notes from around the interweb:
- Cranky Flier does a nice job explaining United’s IT challenges with demand forecasting and why the airline thinks it’s selling tickets too cheaply — to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
United first spoke publicly about this in June and their plan for a new Gemini system replacing the current Orion. They expanded on it at Investor Day.
Scott Kirby, as President of American, described very similar challenges back in May.
- FBI file on D.B. Cooper (.pdf)
- Always wear your seatbelt when seated: Several passengers hospitalized when severe turbulence struck a China Eastern flight on arriving in Sydney
- 150 free Aeroplan miles
- Boeing and Airbus are going rounds at the World Trade Organization. The WTO found that the launch of Airbus was hugely subsidized. Now it’s determined that Washington State tax breaks for the Boeing 777X were illegal.
- Casey Neistat, who used to have American’s Concierge Key status as a social media influencer, is starting a new media company with CNN. Maybe American shouldn’t have yanked that status?
@gary – please post more complete descriptions in what you put here. The Boeing article seems pretty clear that the issue WTO outlined was minor compared with all the allegations the EU raised against Boeing. A partial violation was found on 1 of the 7 allegations. At least if my understanding of the poorly written article is correct.
WTO also concluded that the $22B would mean that Airbus would have failed to exist completely had they not been received, at least if Boeing’s statement of such is accurate.
If United raises their prices why would anyone fly with them.
Bring in the foreign carriers.
What is a Casey Neistat ?!?!
Sincerely,
People With Lives