United Airlines plans to announce ‘family pooling’ of mileage this wee. This is a nice benefit where your kids can help you earn miles towards an award more quickly, and your once a year traveling in-laws can too. Miles get used faster, and become more useful.
JetBlue is eliminating a third of its Los Angeles flying, dropping four cities completely from its route networks, and pulling down other flights including several out of Fort Lauderdale. But it turns out they aren’t done cutting – and more route cuts will come next month.
The executive director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton Little Rock, Arkansas airport was shot in a firefight with federal agents on Tuesday as they served a warrant on his home.
Bryan Malinowski was injured around 6 a.m. with gunshot wounds sustained from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and transported to a local hospital. He had shot back, and hit an ATF agent.
A Delta Air Lines passenger bound for Austin was arrested as a stowaway after being caught while the plane was taxiing out to takeoff from Salt Lake City International Airport.
Wicliff Yves Fleurizard was trying to get home from a snowboarding trip to Park City, Utah. On Saturday he tried using a Southwest Airlines buddy pass but flights were full. So he changed his approach for Sunday.
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No Fly Lists include people added by mistake (FBI agent checking the wrong box on a form or having a name similar to someone else) and even added maliciously (such as retaliation for refusing to cooperate in an investigation).
Alaska Airlines is now selling a $5 per month subscription to fare alerts. For a monthly fee you’ll receive ads about their fare sales, which you can target to specific destinations.
American Airlines flight attendants haven’t had a raise since 2019. Their contract became amendable, but negotiations were first delayed by the pandemic and have been slow since. And the value of their wages have been eroded by inflation.
The airline has offered to match the top of the industry – what non-union Delta pays its flight attendants. The union has rejected this. Now American has made an intriguing new offer.
I wrote this week that JetBlue was telling employees it would pull down flying on the West Coast out of Los Angeles. They’re doing exactly that, and making other significant changes to their route network as well.
While we can look longingly at the food offerings of yesteryear, those only existed because tickets were priced beyond affordability and competition with lower fares was against the law, at least where federal regulations applied
In fact it’s the end of the lavish meals for most airline passengers that has marked the progress of civilization.
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