Several top American Airlines executives — President Robert Isom, Executive Vice President – People and Communications Elise Eberwein, Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs Stephen Johnson, and Chief Financial Officer Derek Kerr — gave up their rights to severance if fired or if American Airlines is acquired.
Amazon will give you 3000 JetBlue TrueBlue points for joining Prime by May 8 That’s like a 40% rebate.
JetBlue also has ongoing earning with Amazon of 3 points per dollar. You should be earning points for what you buy at Amazon anyway.
Sunday night’s Aeroflot flight SU270 from Moscow to Bangkok hit severe turbulence and 20 people were severely injured.
Donna Wiegel was flying Baltimore – Chicago last month. She has “a lot of respiratory problems and asthma” and avoids being near cats. She spotted one at the boarding gate. And though she asked the gate agent to seat her as far away from the cat as possible, once on board she discovered she was only a ‘few rows away’.
Here’s how to handle onboard allergy issues.
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
IHG Rewards Club is running a 50% off award night redemption sale for Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean. Book by May 7 for stays in May and June for half the points.
American Airlines says they’re planning to add seats to domestic planes.
I assumed at a minimum this referred to legacy US Airways Airbus A321s. There’s a rumor though that already-squeezed Boeing 737-800s will go from 160 to 174 seats.
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
Singapore Airlines is running a fantastic sale on premium economy roundtrips (think domestic first class but with Singapore Airlines food and service) from their US gateways. You can buy premium economy from $1197 roundtrip. And upgrades are remarkably easy.
While passengers were deplaning a Delta flight, two women on the jetway started fighting. They knock each other to the ground. A pilot intervenes — you can hear a raised voice say “knock it off” as he grabs one of the women on the ground and whacks her.
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