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.
New security changes being finalized, reported by the Wall Street Journal, are going to slown down security and make us less safe in airports.
The Street‘s Ted Reed writes a love letter to Doug Parker over the American Airlines CEO’s granting unilateral raises to employees as a way of working well with labor.
Employees appreciate raises, though perhaps they’d appreciate different new uniforms even more. From an investor perspective, though, the $830 million may be lighting money on fire because money alone won’t create the kind of service that generates passenger loyalty and earns the airline a revenue premium.
MileagePlus Go will be the new United co-brand prepaid card from Netspend.
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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 »
