United Airlines flight attendants can drink while on duty in one narrow situation: when they are deadheading as passengers, out of uniform, and not expected to work another flight that day.
American Airlines is building a 37,000 square foot Admirals Club lounge (terminal C) and a ‘Provisions’ grab ‘n go (terminal F) at the Dallas – Fort Worth airport.
American Airlines is planning to retrofit existing Boeing 787-8 aircraft with new Flagship Suites. Right now, they have fantastic business class seats, but they have too much variability in their widebody premium product. The 787-8s don’t have enough premium seats, and they have an older business class product, but the airline had been silent about plans for the aircraft until now.
Airlines often blame weather even after skies clear because the disruption has scattered aircraft, pilots and flight attendants across the network. After a storm delayed my American Airlines flight at Washington National, a missing crewmember exposed how separating planes and crews can turn one late arrival into delays across multiple flights.
A passenger on a SunExpress flight to Germany refused to sit beside a woman, then slapped a female flight attendant and invoked “Sharia” when questioned by police. Early reports wrongly identified the airline, described the German citizen as a migrant and called the slap a punch.
There have been plenty of controversial stories about a husband flying first class while his wife and kids sit in coach. Maybe he got the upgrade, and only one seat was available. Or he was on a business trip and had to be rested, so the company paid for his seat.
But this story about a family splitting up on the plane was genuinely new to me: the kids fly first class while the dad sits in coach.
This is being described as walking back the policy, and in some cases denying the policy existed. But that’s not what’s going on here at all.
An American Airlines passenger, dubbed a Karen on reddit, demanded that a passenger assigned to a window seat move so that her child could have it, became extremely abusive. The woman threatened to sue the airline, and to sue the passenger at the window, when he wouldn’t move.
Finally cabin crew gave into the woman’s demands, accommodating her insistence on the window seat for her kid – by upgrading the passenger who had the window seat to business class. That incensed passenger Karen even more.
The best songs about travel are not just road trip playlists. They capture the feeling of leaving, arriving, getting lost, wanting to go home, and seeing the world differently — from Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger” to Sinatra’s “Come Fly With Me” and United’s (Gershwin’s) “Rhapsody in Blue.”
A Philadelphia man has logged 150 flights in 421 days commuting 800 miles to an Atlanta job after a layoff left him unable to afford relocating. Plus: Emirates first-class awards face tighter restrictions, American’s Heathrow catering problems continue, Citi may add Japan Airlines transfers, and German diners rethink restaurant reviews.
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 »
