American Airlines wants you to check your bag. Fewer carry-on bags speeds up the boarding process, since passengers don’t take a few seconds each to stow their bag. And at the very end of boarding they don’t find that they’re out of bin space and have to race to gate check carry-ons. Anything they can do to reduce that time before departure is a win.
A woman shares the experience of a middle seat passenger stuck between manspreaders.
Data from aviation analytics company Cirium shows the ‘most connected airports’ meaning the airports that serve the most destinations. Here are the top 10 U.S. airports, with Chicago O’Hare able to send passengers non-stop to more places than any other.
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Trump campaign 737 mistakenly entered restricted airspace over the White House, banking right towards the Washington Monument after takeoff from National airport.
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The Department of Transportation has just sent letters to United Airlines, American, Delta and Southwest demanding significant information about their frequent flyer programs – how they’ve changed the price of awards, whether they give advance notice of program changes to members, and how the value of their points has changed over the past six years.
United has consistently devalued its miles since eliminating award charts in 2019. Delta will charge more than 4 times as many miles for the same exact seat compared to its partners. Southwest has devalued its points 43% in twelve years.
American’s approach to international flying, broadly, is to fly to their close partner hubs and to operate seasonally to other destinations.
A passenger flying Helsinki to Copenhagen on Monday clearly didn’t fit into the seat. From the photo it appears to me to be a Norwegian Boeing 737. The passenger sharing it offers that they felt sorry for the large gentleman who didn’t fit at the aisle “and the guy next to him in the middle seat.”
Having seen Starlink perform first on JSX and more recently on Hawaiian I can say that it really is the best inflight wifi product by a lot. Beyond faster speeds, it just has very very low latency. The technical aspects of it are outside my area but signals just don’t have as far to travel with the satellites in low earth orbit. Installations can be done in a single overnight period.
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 »
