New and notes from around the interweb:
- Class action has been certified over Air Canada fuel surcharges but only for Quebec-based Aeroplan members who redeemed for long haul international travel between April 2012 and November 2014.
- British Airways is trialing virtual reality entertainment
From now until the end of 2019, customers travelling on select flights in First from London Heathrow to New York JFK will be able to enjoy a selection of award-winning films, documentaries and travel programmes in 2D, 3D or 360° formats.
The headsets from VR eyewear specialists, SkyLights, allow customers to fully immerse themselves in 3D view regardless of the position they are sat in. The experience even works when they are lying fully flat.
Credit: British Airways - When subsidies aren’t enough: United may pull out of the Denver – Monterey, California market.
- Man managed to get on board a parked United Airlines plane in Phoenix and activate the slide.
- American Airlines criticized for failing to provide food or access to medication to disabled unaccompanied minors during 13 hour delay. I wonder if it’s such a good idea to send 13 disabled minors without an adult chaperone, and to pack their medication in checked luggage?
- No one was assigned to this seat, it was actually out of service.
Loooooool check this seat on my flight 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/ecBfX8K6Y1
— Freezy (@Calfreezy) August 12, 2019
When my daughter’s middle school qualified for a competition on the other side of the country, I decided to accompany her. I wanted to fly on UA as I thought I’d be able to upgrade us for the long flight. The school was going to book them on a different airline. I asked if I could just fly with my daughter. They said “no” — she could only fly with a school chaperone! Maybe that was too cautious on the school’s part, but the idea that a group of minors — with learning disabilities no less — should be flying by themselves across the county blows my mind.
I think people see the $150 price tag on the unaccompanied minor fee and think that they are paying for a personal concierge for their child. No. You get brought to the gate, handed off to a gate agent, then handed off to a flight attendant, who puts you in your seat and says “I’m Clara if you need anything just press your call button!” They are getting away with it beacuse minors aren’t yet savvy consumers and don’t realize they are getting ripped off.
Parents are blind to it because they meet their kid safely at the gate 99.9% of the time and go “whew! money well spent!” And when something goes wrong they blame the system and not themselves. Agree that putting medication in a checked bag is like posted on signs all over the airport that it’s not a good idea, lol.
I wonder if the VR headsets will show the interior of Qatar Airway’s Q-Suites?