American has sold upgrades at check-in to non-elites when they expected all elites requesting upgrades to receive them and they’d still have first class seats left. This has been known as “Load Factor Based Upgrades” (LFBUs).
As part of American’s plan to extract incremental revenue from existing passengers, they’re changing their approach somewhat to selling first class upgrades to non-elite frequent flyers.
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Boeing provided a financial update for the 747 in an SEC form 10-Q filing today.
They noted that demand for both the passenger plane and freighter has been less than they’ve projected. Boeing is going to keep production levels at just one aircraft every other month. They have completed, unsold aircraft in inventory and their schedule anticipates producing 32 aircraft through 2019 that they do not yet have plans to deliver.
You cannot bring liquids more than 100 milliliters (3.4 ounces) each, and not more of those than will fit in a one quart clear plastic ziploc bag (your “freedom baggie”).
But what about freezing that bottle of water before going through the checkpoint — then it’s a solid, and not a liquid. Is that ok? Ask TSA.
It turns out the TSA is perfectly fine with carrying utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s head through their checkpoints.
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Model Donald Trump’s negotiating tactics. He took on the role of meeting planner to negotiate with a hotel where his campaign was holding an event.
Instead of dealing directly with the hotel’s event staff, he made his demands for price reduction to the assembled crowd of supporters.
Delta’s and American’s shares are down about 10% year-over-year. United is down about 15%. JetBlue has fallen even more than United. Stocks are lower even as airlines continue to make record profits. And it’s actually easy to understand why that is.
Donald Trump flies mostly in his private Boeing 757 (which the campaign rents from the candidate). For short hops to small cities he also has a Cessna that required some administrative sleight of hand to keep legal.
His running mate, Governor Mike Pence of Indiana, will be flying a charted Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-700 registration N278EA that only days earlier displayed a Star Trek livery.
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Thai Airways used to operate a flying gas can Airbus A340-500 non-stop from Bangkok to Los Angeles and also to New York JFK (May 2005 – June 2008). Both of those flights were eventually eliminated as uneconomical. Thai has also flown one-stop between Bangkok and Los Angeles, such as via Seoul and via Osaka.
But they no longer serve the U.S. at all, having suspended operations last fall as they worked to stem financial losses. And they aren’t allowed re-start service, either.
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