One of the ways airlines are squeezing more seats onto planes is by shrinking the lavatories. It’s part of American’s plan for 30 inch pitch coach on Boeing 737 MAX aircraft (and eventually retrofitting their existing 737s with more seats, too).
JetBlue is adding seats to their planes, though not quite as many, and they too are shrinking the lavs.
United announced Luc Bondar as the new Vice President, Loyalty. He’ll take over from Praveen Sharma who will be Vice President, Digital Products and Analytics. Praveen has been doing double duty for some months.
He’ll officially start November 1, the day of the program’s next devaluation.
The Real ID Act regulates, among other things, what state identification will be valid for federal purposes. Those federal purposes including identifying oneself to the Transportation Security Administration in order to board commercial aircraft. And several state drivers licenses do not comply with those rules. But DHS appears to largely have blinked on refusing these state IDs at security checkpoints next year.
There’s news on the launch of two new Trump hotel brands first revealed in June.
United just announced a new improvement to their app. When you’re traveling on United and connecting onto one of 19 airline partners you’ll be able to check-in for the downline partner and receive a boarding pass for the partner airline’s flight segment all inside their app.
Each airport has its own unique challenges. Earlier this year there was a leopard on the runway in Kathmandu. A kangaroo once walked into an airport pharmacy in Melbourne, Australia.
But yesterday’s story out of Barrow, Alaska was a new one on me: an Alaska Airlines flight delay due to a seal on the runway.
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Lucky Air, part of Hainan Airlines group, offers four-times weekly Anqing to Kunming Airbus A320 service. Last week one of those flights was cancelled because planes are not wishing wells.
From November through April there’s limited availability for an amazing coach fare between the West Coast and London.
Singapore Airlines just signed a firm order for 20 Boeing 777-9s and 19 Boeing 787-10s. It had been announced with a letter of intent back in February.
Now it was made firm at a signing ceremony at the White House “witnessed by US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong.” This makes me greatly concerned about the future of American business.
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 »
