Passenger Strips Down at American Airlines Gate: Not Gonna Take It Anymore!

man losing clothes in airport
Jul 13 2019

The plot of Falling Down appears to re-create itself in Spanish, where a man is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore to borrow from another Hollywood classic. Is he frustrated by American Airlines? Raging against machines taking over simple tasks once employing people? Or frustrated by his own circumstance?

A man storms away from the desk at his gate, throws down the boarding group sign, where an American Airlines employee puts it back up. Meanwhile the passenger has taken off his shirt and allows his pants to sag. He grabs the reaches for the back of the employee’s neck. The employee goes about his business while the man rants in the gate area.

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The CEOs of the 3 Biggest Airlines Wrote an Op-Ed and Every Paragraph is Misleading

man speaking on microphone
Jul 13 2019

The U.S. airline industry was born in subsidy from the post office and American Airlines received a federal loan to pay for its first big aircraft order. The U.S. airline industry has more government involvement than most countries — the U.S. model where airports are owned and run by government agencies, and air traffic control is managed by the government is unusual.

Big U.S. airlines like Delta, American, and United have all benefited from major government subsidies, like moving pension obligations off their books and onto the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation in bankruptcy while retaining tax loss carry forwards so that they wouldn’t have to pay taxes once they started earning profits.

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Genius Flyer Tries to Find Shortcut to the Plane – By Getting on the Checked Baggage Belt

woman on conveyor belt
Jul 13 2019

A many of the world’s airports it’s a long walk from check-in to the gate. Some of that delay is due to immigration and customs formalities, but at newer airports that also usually means walking through a maze designed to move you past as much high-end retail as possible. That’s because expensive retail generates big revenue for the airport.

Sometimes you start to think: there has to be a better way.

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Etihad First Apartment Awards Wide Open (and Business Class for Up to 9)

airline bed
Jul 12 2019

One of my most frequent and best uses of American AAdvantage miles over the past 7 years has been booking first class awards on Etihad. I’ve used them to fly to the Maldives four times, to India, to the Gulf region and from the Mideast to Australia to name just a few.

And they offer an excellent hard product in first class – on their Airbus A380 the ‘First Apartment’ with an on board shower.

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