The FAA has decided that the workload in ensuring business class suite doors are in their correct position is significant. These doors generally have to be open during taxi, take-off, and landing. And that extra work means that airlines have to staff cabin crew beyond otherwise-required minimums (of 1 flight attendant per 50 seats) for planes with doors.
Frontier AIrlines flies to National airport 3 times daily, but under the law for purposes of new flights they are not currently an incumbent carrier. Spirit Airlines doesn’t fly there, but they are considered to. And DOT says that Alaska is a “limited incumbent” but failed to consider their codesharing with American Airlines – while listing Air Canada as eligible to operate routes to U.S. domestic destinations. Oops!
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To answer ‘who’s the biggest on the Fourth of July’ we’re mostly asking who carries passengers from the most places domestically to the most places domestically, and looking at most flights, even with smaller planes and fewer seats, makes sense.
Cathay Pacific will leave the American Airlines terminal 8 at New York JFK airport and relocate to the new terminal 6 once the first 5 gates open there, projected for “early 2026.”
Cathay will open its own roughly 10,000 square foot lounge there, its second in the U.S. after San Francisco.
We’re mere days away from the end of the second quarter, and Southwest Airlines has filed an SEC 8-K updating its projections of how the quarter will go. Things are bloody. Their previous ‘worst case scenario’ was projecting a 3.5% year-over-year drop in revenue per available seat mile. That’s bad, and a big part of why Southwest is scrambling to change its business model, for instance considering seat assignments and premium seating. But things are worse than they’d previously suggested – a range of down 1.5% – 3.5%. They now say it’ll be down 4% – 4.5%. That’s on increased capacity, where their guidance hasn’t changed. I suppose they can only be thankful for Boeing delivery delays – without which there’d be more capacity and even lower revenue per available seat mile. While they aren’t…
Delta’s new Delta One business class lounge at New York JFK opens on Wednesday, and overall looks to be fantastic. But there’s a lot of hype surrounding the product. Some of it strains credulity.
The woman watching them took to social media, and decided it was time to identify the cheater, because “he’s probably going to be staying with Katy tonight” in New York. Things got spicier, because it seems the new couple were “making out” at their seats and “ended up in the bathroom.”
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Delta this week opens its very first dedicated business class lounge – a concept that both American Airlines and United Airlines have had for years. Premium cabin customers flying on ‘Delta One’ routes will have access to what looks like an incredible experience… and one that’s going to be replicated in Boston and Los Angeles in the coming months.
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.
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