Frontier Airlines Is In A Lease Dispute – And 10% Of Its Planes Are At Risk [Roundup]

by Gary Leff

Jun 20 2023

News and notes from around the interweb: Hyatt is offering double points starting with your second stay in Europe, Africa, the Middle East & Asia Pacific from July 1, 2023 – September 15, 2023. Registration required prior to first stay. Frontier Airlines is in a lease dispute with Wells Fargo over 10% of its aircraft Follow your dreams. When you follow your dreams they can really take off…Kevin Ray quit his job and started watching planes full time. How is planespotting a job? His @airlinevideos became a YouTube hit. From @cbssaturday: pic.twitter.com/2lYGIkgV8P — Kris Van Cleave (@krisvancleave) June 17, 2023 15% bonus on transfers from Citi to Cathay Pacific Asia Miles through July 22, 2023. Cathay Pacific will hire more cabin crew from mainland China continues Hong Kong’s turn inward, remember that mainland bosses already…

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Southwest Airlines Will Start Selling Overnight Connections

by Gary Leff

Jun 19 2023

Southwest will start selling overnight connection flights for the first time on June 26. They won’t offer redeye flights, but will use their current schedule to sell itineraries that involve an overnight at six airports – Baltimore; Denver; Las Vegas; Phoenix; Chicago Midway; and Oakland.

No new flights are being added to the schedule, this just adds flight options to sell… that customers should be on the lookout for, because they’re options that many will potentially want to avoid.

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Driver In Front Of New York JFK Terminal 5 Tries To Give Traffic Guard A Beat Down

by Gary Leff

Jun 18 2023

A woman driving a vehicle in front of New York JFK’s terminal 5, home to JetBlue, wasn’t following traffic instructions. The security officer directing traffic was having none of that, and beat the hood of her car. The driver, though, wasn’t going to take that lightly. She got out of the vehicle, went to her trunk, and pulled out… a bat. The two proceeded to tussle, and a second person in a bright security vest came over to assist. But it was a bystander who intervened to shut things down, grabbing the bat and helping to subdue the driver.

And all I can think is, well, just another day at New York JFK?

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Late-Arriving Delta Passenger Commandeers P.A. System To Demand To Be Let Onto Flight

by Gary Leff

Jun 18 2023

Late for his flight, a Delta Air Lines passenger began banging on the door at his boarding gate in New Orleans. Perhaps he did not realize that when this door is closed there’s literally no one on the other side of it to open it back up. Pounding on the door won’t get a staffer’s attention.

Once the door is closed it is highly unlikely to be re-opened. You need a gate agent, and it’s only the rarest circumstances that anything can or will be done. This man wasn’t giving up, though.

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