This is a crowded market, and having a U.S. connectivity partner only with Alaska is limiting. Taiwanese media is reporting that Starlux is looking to join the oneworld alliance, putting them on stronger footing against their larger Taiwanese long haul rivals.
Two passengers at Seoul’s Incheon Airport have gone viral on Korean social media for playing tennis in the entrance to the terminal on Wednesday. They can be seen hitting a tennis ball back and forth to each other.
Avatar Airlines is a startup – some might call it fanfiction – that’s been claiming it’s getting off the ground since 1992. They used to call it Family Airlines. The founder even went to prison for tax and securities fraud in connection with raising money for the venture.
United Airlines is planning to expand its operation of Boeing 737s flying out of Tokyo Narita airport to other destinations in Asia. The world is different, demand is different, and United has unique assets worth trying to deploy – to see if intra-Asia flying from Tokyo works, and if not to fail quickly and pivot.
Aviation analytics company Cirium has released on-time performance data by airline and airport for May.
Rio Las Vegas was called out by Hyatt for violating elite breakfast benefit rules when they started limiting Globalist entree selections. They’re still doing it anyway, and now have a new devious plan to limit breakfast expense at the property.
Another Chase Sapphire lounge in the pipeline, this time at LAX in the Tom Bradley International Terminal. It will be 9,234 square feet near gate 148.
I’m increasingly worried that American Airlines flight attendants are being led down a bad path for someone else’s agenda.
Turkish Airlines flies to more countries than any other carrier in the world. They already fly to 14 U.S. cities with the recent launch of Denver and Dallas. The airline isn’t coy about expansion plans. Their Chairman gave an interview where he telegraphed their next four U.S. cities: Philadelphia, Charlotte, Orlando, and Minneapolis.
A thread on social media draws out some of the current themes. Bear in mind that online comments will generally skew negative. People are more inclined to post complaints than praise, and the more indifferent won’t post at all.
There weren’t any positive comments posted. Here’s a sampling of what employees shared.
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