American Airlines flight 239 from Rome to Dallas is cancelled on Friday, and the reason that decision has already been made – a day in advance – is really interesting.
United Airlines launched ’15 new destinations’ for winter. And they aren’t shy about saying they’re going after Spirit while they’re down. What they’re actually doing is anticompetitive – and revealing their playbook for blocking competition at Newark and beyond.
With marketing dollars from T-mobile, Southwest will begin offering free wifi to Rapid Rewards members starting October 24. The problem is that Southwest currently offers the worst wifi among U.S. airlines.
The San Francisco Housing Authority is offering people $5,000 Airbnb gift cards to leave public housing and squat in private homes instead.
No one did more to drive consolidation in the U.S. airline industry, to get the airline industry hooked on government subsidy, or to destroy passenger experience. And he did this while furloughing more workers than anyone else in aviation history, and destroying more shareholder value than any other CEO than any airline in history.
While an American Airlines flight was pushing back and flight attendants performed the safety demonstration, a middle seat passenger told a flight attendant to “shut up,” continued to use their phone and told the crewmember she “couldn’t hear” – they couldn’t hear the safety briefing because they were talking through it.
JetBlue is expected to announce a delay to equip some of its planes with Amazon wifi, as the launch airline for the product that’s supposed to be even faster than Starlink.
Agba told officers she took the child because “God told her to do it,” claiming she believed a rainbow wall in the terminal would calm him. She insisted she wasn’t drunk, and said she remembered very little of the incident.
Aviation watchdog JonNYC leaks the results of the vote on new Delta Europe service – and Sardinia won by a wide margin.
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