Pakistan is required to privatize the PIA under terms of an IMF loan. Of course the longer that’s put off, the more loss-making quarters private investors will realize.
Employee protests have turned violent in clashes with police involving rubber bullets, water cannons and tear gas.
With the airline’s operations crippled, they do not even know where stranded passengers are.
Los Angeles is a hyper-competitive market. There’s no more high revenue market than New York – Los Angeles, with New York – San Francisco following it.
That’s why the routes are so competitive, not just with so many airlines offering service but also with a better product than what’s offered domestically on other routes.
United is introducing 3-cabin Boeing 777 service between Newark and both Los Angeles and San Francisco and between Washington Dulles and those two cities.
oneworld member LAN will be flying Los Angeles to Santiago, Chile (where they have a whole route network beyond to elsewhere in the region) 3 times a week between October 16 and March 25 operated by a Boeing 787. The aircraft offers 2-2-2 fully flat seats.
Here’s a look at 4 business class seats and see availability in both directions. Availability is best for November and through mid-December.
Virgin America has a 2-for-1 sale on San Francisco – Honolulu and Maui flights in economy for a limited set of dates, and it’s pretty good.
That’s from San Francisco only, but you can actually get 2-for-1 tickets to Hawaii from 110 different cities and get them any day of the year you wish where flights aren’t sold out. I’ll explain how.
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.
Female British Airways flight attendants no longer have to wear skirts.
Legacy flight attendants assigned to British Airways’ “Worldwide” fleet could wear pants already. “Mixed fleet” — flight attendants hired over the past 6 years for lower pay, and as a broad generalization that I find provide far better service — required women to wear skirts.
Clearly the role of the flight attendant has changed over time and societal attitudes have changed too.
American and Qantas were drumming up excitement for their enhanced joint venture back in the fall, and that included talk of reciprocal upgrades across the two airlines. AAdvantage President Suzanne Rubin told the Sydney Morning Herald that reciprocal upgrades with Qantas “is certainly a topic of conversation.”
Talks about reciprocal upgrades have apparently gotten serious enough that the CEO of Qantas is openly talking about them.
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.
Donald Trump’s plane made an emergency landing in Nashville on Wednesday “after reporting engine problems.”
The FAA is investigating the incident, but like the Singapore Airlines emergency landing in Bali, passengers onboard the Boeing 757 probably just ate Trump Steaks.
American is making at least 2 business class seats available on their new Los Angeles – Auckland flight which launches June 22 about half of the time between June 25 and September 7, although only about four times after that through the current end of schedule.
There’s a similar amount of availability in the other direction from Auckland to Los Angeles, and that stretches through mid-October.
Upgrade space is even better that. Act fast…
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