Nov 14 2017

Argentina is said to have detained Air France flight crew who refused to upgrade the daughter of a politician.

Reportedly the daughter of a former Deputy Minister of Justice (and current magistrate) was onboard October 29th Air France flight AF228 from Paris to Buenos Aires. She asked for an upgrade to business class and the crew (correctly) turned her down. She then claimed her seat opponent behaved inappropriately and asked to change seats, which was accommodated (but still not in business class).

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Nov 14 2017

American AAdvantage says award availability is going to get better starting later in the year however in the meantime on the whole finding saver award space on American’s own flights is an almost pointless task much of the time.

However they do open space from time to time, in spurts and usually for 24-48 hours at most. When they do you need to grab it, it doesn’t last.

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Nov 14 2017

Emirates currently has 10 Boeing 777-200LRs with 8 first class, 42 business class, and 216 economy seats.

They’ve just disclosed a plan to eliminate first class from these planes, and move to a six-across (2-2-2) business class in place of the current seven-across, eliminating the middle-of-middle seat in business. The plane will be densified to 302 seats in total.

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Nov 14 2017

American just announced a new flight from Dallas Fort-Worth to Reykjavik, Iceland. When I saw the release that American would be going to Iceland I first assumed it would be from Philadelphia, which they consider their primary transatlantic gateway. However Dallas makes a certain amount of sense.

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Nov 14 2017

The Conrad Chicago is celebrating its one year anniversary with $11.14 rates today. Starting at 11 a.m. Central time you can book stays between November 15 and March 31, 2018, And when that runs out there’s still $111 rates.

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Nov 14 2017

JetBlue is offering 20% off bookings made by tomorrow, November 15th.

Travel November 29 through February 14, excluding Fridays and Sundays and December 15 – January 10.

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Nov 14 2017

Singapore Airlines is making changes to its Singapore Airlines award chart, increasing the price mostly of premium cabin international awards. They’re also introducing online booking of partner awards and a $25 telephone booking fee for awards that can be booked online.

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Nov 13 2017

According to agents there the American Airlines terminal 4 Admirals Club may re-open November 21.

American tells me “we’re targeting for the whole complex which includes Admirals Club, Flagship Lounge and Flagship First Dining to open mid to late December.” The Admirals Club will be the first piece to open and “that’s on target to open around Thanksgiving.”

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Nov 13 2017

It’s great that the details of the hack were revealed to Boeing. It’s a problem when vulnerabilities are kept secret.

There needs to be a limited amount of time to implement a patch because there’s a limited amount of time in which vulnerability information is likely to remain secret and our safety cannot rely on hoping that hackers don’t steal the data.

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Nov 13 2017

American Airlines same day change and standby is finally available through the airline’s mobile app.

Now that the things which are seemingly most important to the airline — things which extract more revenue from customers like Basic Economy, and which save the airline money like devaluing their miles or limiting the number of flights you can have in an award — have been accomplished, they can turn to things which make the travel experience better.

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