May
07
2023
How do you balance giving your kids experiences – alongside you – without making them take those experiences for granted?
Parents Leaving Kids In Coach While They Fly First Class – To Teach A Life Lesson
Pilots Are Being Sent To The Airport To Learn Customer Service Skills [Roundup]
May
07
2023
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
SAD: Airline Unions Band Together, Ask Government To Ban Better Air Travel
May
07
2023
Several air travel unions are going to the government, trying to get new air carriers banned, because they are… legal and competitive. They even cite offering a better, more compelling product to passengers as a problem. Regional carrier SkyWest created a subsidiary to run public charter flights under FAA Part 135 rules. This lets then fly planes with no more than 30 seats which have a captain that meets the 1500 hour rule but allows a co-pilot with fewer hours. The plan involved taking CRJ-200 50-seat regional jets and taking out seats. That’s actually great for passengers. And SkyWest planned to do this on poor-performing routes, where there weren’t that many passengers to begin with, like subsidized Essential Air Service routes. That keeps air service to small cities which are rapidly seeing flights dry up…
Bleeding Frontier Airlines Passenger Lands In Wrong Country By Mistake
May
06
2023
A regular Frontier Airlines commuter between Philadelphia and Jacksonville, Florida where she keeps a second home, arrived at the correct gate – but then went to the restroom since the gate agent confirmed she had time.
When she returned “she found the flight almost fully boarded and the jetway door about to close” so everyone was in a rush. Frontier was apparently more interested in policing the size of her carry-on bag than in making sure her boarding pass was for the correct flight. Her flight had had a gate change.
Here’s An Unethical Hack When Someone Reclines Their Seat Into You
May
06
2023
There are a lot of things that are unpleasant as an airline passenger. One is how little legroom your ticket buys, though there are options to pay more money to get more space. There is a right way and a wrong way to take matters into your own hands if you’re frustrated by a reclining passenger.
Americans Have Been Getting Caught Smuggling Fruit Roll-Ups Into Israel For A Strange Reason
May
06
2023
An intermittent fruit roll-ups shortage in different parts of the world has apparently been slowing building over the past couple of years, peaking in the past two months, thanks to what’s been described as a viral ‘hack’ from TikTok of wrapping up a small scoop of ice cream into the snack and eating it. The ice cream freezes the fruit roll-up and gives it a crunch.
That’s created… a black market in fruit roll-ups.
oneworld Alliance Gets Fully Captured By American Airlines [Roundup]
May
06
2023
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
IHG Restricts New Breakfast Benefit, Makes It Easier To Gift Rewards
May
05
2023
Several changes that have been made to the IHG One Rewards elite benefit terms and conditions. These have been published to their website, but they haven’t otherwise told anyone about them which always strikes me as a poor practice.
American Airlines Call Centers Will Pitch Credit Cards Instead Of Avis Car Rentals
May
05
2023
According to an internal company memo shared with View From The Wing this changeover takes place May 15.
Airline Passengers Vote Unruly Woman Off A Flight To Atlanta
May
05
2023
Modern air travel has become something like Survivor so it was inevitable perhaps that Frontier Airlines passengers headed from Trenton, New Jersey to Atlanta came together to vote a disruptive woman ‘off the island’ rather than let her ruin the rest of their trip.
