“You Need Therapy”: American Airlines Told Employee to Stop Caring About Clean Planes—Now They’re Scrambling to Fix Cabins and Lost Trust

Mar 14 2025

Part of the ‘premium pivot’ means paying attention to cabin maintenance and appearance, but that will entail a huge culture shift. One commenter explains just how much the airline is up against if they are to make this shift. This American Airlines employee says they were offered therapy for their insistence on getting aircraft clean between flights.

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United’s CEO Thinks He Knows Why Passengers Pick Airlines—But Are You Choosing The Wrong One?

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Mar 14 2025

Some customers choose on schedule and price. They may not value the difference in product across airlines, or may not be aware of them. To Kirby, those are basic economy customers – show them the lowest price and give them the least. (This may be a mistake, I will explain below.) Others choose on product elements. Those are the customers to fight for.

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American Airlines 737 Lands In Denver With Engine Trouble—Fire Erupts, 12 Hospitalized

Mar 14 2025

American Airlines flight 1006 from Colorado Springs to Dallas – Fort Worth diverted to Denver due to abnormal engine vibrations during its climb out, “cruising slower than normal.”

When it landed and taxied to gate C38 around 5 p.m., the right engine caught fire and thick black smoke surrounded the aircraft. Emergency slides were deployed and all 172 passengers and six crewmembers were evacuated from the full Boeing 737.

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Hyatt Hotels Are Ignoring Elite Perks—And No One Is Stopping Them

Mar 13 2025

The Hyatt Centric brand can be expected to deliver inferior stays. It’s for hotels that don’t want to conform to brand standards, so there aren’t many standards. That’s the sine qua non of cheap owners.

Still, it seems to me that there’s an increasing sense in which Hyatt hotels are not abiding by program terms, or rather Hyatt’s rules seem to have changed for some hotels and customers just aren’t being informed.

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