American Airlines is introducing 30 inch pitch coach seating — that’s the distance from seat back to seat back — on their new Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, and they’ll be retrofitting their existing 737s to match so they can squeeze more seats onto the aircraft.
They argue the seats will give passengers as much personal space as they have today, even though seats are closer together. And they displayed the seats publicly for the first time today.
I’m not sure I’ve ever made a redemption with a value of 40 cents per point before.
There’s a hotel I wanted to stay at in about 3 weeks where the lowest cancellable rate is $450 a night. This trick brought it down to $250 per night for 2 nights.
American will be introducing Casper mattress pads, duvets, pillots, blankets, lumbar pillows, pajamas and slippers.
New comfort amenities aren’t limited to long haul international. They’ll be introduced to premium transcon business and first class routes and also premium economy as well.
The Boeing 747 went into commercial service in 1970. It was a bet the company move for Boeing in collaboration with Pan Am. The plane became known as the ‘Queen of the Sky’ and there’s still something magical about climbing the staircase to its upper deck.
United’s 747s have a storied history. After other US airlines retired the bird that’s too costly to fly in many cases unless close to full, and that’s no longer the biggest jetliner in the world at a time when the trend is to buy smaller planes and fly point-to-point or offer more frequencies, United continued to fly the aircraft.
Gulf air was de-emphasizing its Abu Dhabi hub an the ruling family there decided to start its own airline. They hired James Hogan to run it. Hogan had been the CEO of Gulf Air. So his airline strategy secured himself a new job.
He built a major Gulf player, but also a loss-maker — while the airline certainly invested in passenger experience, its the carrier’s investments in airlines around the world that drove red ink and ultimately led to his departure.
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Southwest airlines is apologizing to the passenger pulled of a plane by police after objecting to an emotional support animal onboard and it may be the second worst apology I’ve ever seen.
Southwest says, “Our Flight Crew made repeated attempts to explain the situation to the Customer, however, she refused to deplane and law enforcement became involved.”
Singapore Airlines is now a partner with Alaska Airlines and there are some real redemption opportunities with the partnership.
I’ve written about my five favorite ways to get to Hawaii. Others liked Virgin America awards or British Airways coach awards from the West Coast at 12,500 points each way.
Doctor of Credit thinks that Bank of America has a new ‘3/12 rule’. That’s a maximum of 3 new Bank of America cards every rolling 12 month period.
A Southwest Airlines passenger Tuesday evening complained to crew upon boarding her Baltimore – Los Angeles flight about an emotional support animal another passenger had on the aircraft. She claimed a severe allergy.
Southwest kicked her off the flight but she refused to leave the aircraft. Southwest escalated a customer service problem into a law enforcement problem. Law enforcement proceeded to grab the woman, yank her and push her off the flight!
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