About To Lose Your United Airlines Status? Ask Them To Extend It For You

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Jan 18 2024

While United Airlines doesn’t have a formal, published program to support status extensions there are plenty of customer reports that a call or an email has gotten status extended for customers that didn’t re-earn it during 2023. They’re about to see their status drop February 1. If you’re in that boat, you might reach out to MileagePlus, too.

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Alaska Airlines CEO Says He Doesn’t Trust Boeing Quality, Won’t Keep Hawaiian’s Airbus Planes?

Jan 17 2024

Boeing has major problems. So does Spirit Aerosystems, which produces many of the components of their planes, it seems. But that, too, is a Boeing problem. It’s no longer possible to paper over those. And airlines that buy and operate Boeing aircraft are going to have to take on greater responsibility for safety assurance. The Boeing brand has been damaged.

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American Airlines Expects To Win Race Against United For New Tokyo Flight, Prepares To Move Crew

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Jan 17 2024

American Airlines is preparing to fly from New York JFK to Tokyo Haneda airport, opening up transfers to New York for flight attendants who speak Japanese.

This suggests they’re confident in winning the Tokyo Haneda slot given up by Delta (which no longer wanted to fly from Portland) – that the Department of Transportation will award it to them rather than to United which has proposed using the slot to fly from Houston.

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