The ongoing saga of airlines not wanting to pay current fees to sell their tickets through third parties, and not happy with how third parties market upsell options to consumers, went to the next level today.
American Airlines ConciergeKey is the ‘super secret’ level that George Clooney had in Up in the Air, in some sense equivalent to United Global Services and Delta 360.
With the opening of American’s first renovated Flagship lounge at New York JFK there’s a new benefit.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who announced he’ll be leaving his position to become an Assistant Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, is embroiled in a controversy over using his law enforcement officers to harass an airline passenger.
Clarke has called the passenger a ‘snowflake’ for objecting to police bullying and says anyone “who harasses him on an airplane might get ‘knocked out’.”
This new card earns double points — not double points in a particular category, this is double points across the board that transfer to several different airline frequent flyer programs.
It’s a no annual fee card, and an American Express business card so it doesn’t count against ‘5/24’ for Chase.
American will be ending full beverage service on several flights under 250 miles.
This is being pitched to crew as saving them from having to do work that made them ‘uncomfortable’ and of course is also a cost saver. Fares will not go down as a result, of course.
United flight 898 from Austin to Houston was taxiing out from gate 19, and American’s flight AA2675 from New York JFK was on its way into gate 21, when the two aircraft “collided Wednesday night” around 8:20 p.m.
Delta is offering roundtrip business class fares between Toronto, Calgary, or Vancouver and Tokyo from $1580 for summer travel.
The fare is widely available. And at this price it can make sense to position yourself to Canada.
American’s New York JFK Flagship lounge is officially open, and therefore open to business class passengers not just first class passengers (as well as mid-tier oneworld elites).
American’s Flagship First Dining inside the Flagship lounge is also open. This is not available to business class customers.
United Polaris ice cream dishes were cracking sending shards of glass into the ice cream. Last month United removed ice cream sundaes and started serving ice cream in its container instead.
This was just one small hurdle of many in United’s attempt to finally offer a quality premium product.
Back in March Qatar Airways debuted their new business class Qsuite which may be the new best business class seat in the world.
At the time of the unveiling, it was suggested that the first route to get the new business class suites would be Doha – London this summer onboard a new delivery Boeing 777-300ER.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
