Between now and March American Airlines award availability between the US and Paris is very good. The absolute best availability appears to be from New York and Philadephia, although there is also some space from Miami, and Dallas.
Monday and Tuesdays are the absolute best, there are days with 7 or more business class award (and upgrade) seats available. But in the midst of winter you’ll see strong availability across several days of the week.
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Spirit Airlines copied Southeast Asian low cost carrier Scoot’s branding.
Now another Southeast Asian low cost carrier is aping Spirit’s advertising.
JetBlue has opened a farm at JFK airport. But it’s too small to actually grow anything useful for the airline. Instead it’s “meant to educate travelers more than actually feed them.”
The farm isn’t even open to the public although pending future regulatory approval they hope to have programs for students, and possibly allow frequent flyers to sign up to visit.
A DC-based flight attendant tapes notes to the windows on flights she’s working.
Taylor Tippett and has started garnering media attention, because I suspect a little bit of inspiration while we’re flying in a metal tube really resonates with people.
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On Monday I wrote about four changes coming to Marriott Rewards. The public announcement of these changes is coming next week. But they’ve gone ahead and confirmed them on the Marriott Insiders website.
Airbus filed a patent last week for a seating design that has passengers sitting on top of each other. Will that become the new hell of travel?
The Eastern Airlines Shuttle concept began with no advance tickets and no check-in even. If you showed up for a flight, you were promised a seat. By 1988, Eastern was in trouble and Donald Trump picked up their Northeast Shuttle from that carrier’s bankruptcy.
Though he tried a year later to leverage his small carrier to acquire American Airlines, his foray into the airline industry lasted only three years. The Trump Shuttle is now the US Airways Shuttle and itself adopts the American Airlines brand October 17.
Krebs on Security looks at all the scary personal information contained in your boarding pass and recommends “[t]he next time you’re thinking of throwing away a used boarding pass with a barcode on it, consider tossing the boarding pass into a document shredder instead.”
My advice might be different, to just use a mobile boarding pass and then there’s no need for a shredder. But I don’t actually think the barcode is the problem here.
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 »
