A clearly intoxicated passenger grabbed another woman’s hair, slapped and spat at her, and shouted body-shaming insults on a Southwest Airlines flight from New York LaGuardia to Kansas City back on June 16. The woman was restrained with zip-ties, and she was ultimately removed from the aircraft back into the terminal on a gurney.
American here is explicit that they will run flights to Europe from New York JFK using these brand new A321XLR narrowbody planes as “the primary mission.”
Plans for a Charlotte Flagship lounge are a long time in coming, but the delay may ultimately be worthwhile because the new design template now seen in Philadelphia is so much nicer than the existing business class lounges.
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Over the summer British Airways tested removing water from meal trays in coach on long haul flights. Instead of water bottles, passengers had to request water in small plastic cups.
A passenger flying American Airlines out of Orlando Melbourne International Airport says he was effectively removed from his flight thanks to understaffed and unresponsive employees. “Rules are rules.”
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My biggest takeaway here is that Bilt points are so good I can literally look at a potential 100% bonus on transfers to Virgin and shrug, preferring to save my points for the next opportunity since I’m confident even better ones will come along.
I was pretty curious when I saw the announcement that GHA Discovery has brought on a restaurant group as part of the program: The Wolseley Hospitality Group, a “signature collection of European dining concepts across London.”
Delta Air Lines is growing to 29 destinations out of Austin. Delta currently flies to 25 destinations from Austin. Along with their regional partners, they operate 22% of flights and offer 19% of seats out of the airport. They’re number two behind Southwest, which offers 39% of flights and 41% of seats. The two carriers are duking it out to be anchor tenant for the new airport lease and use agreement as a new concourse gets built. Delta says they see themselves growing to Southwest’s current size in Austin. But Southwest isn’t sitting still. They think they could grow by 50%. Austin Business Journal quotes Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan: (HT: Enilria) [O]ur intent is to continue to grow our share of the market here…People are flocking to Austin because of the business environment and…
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