Frequent Flyer Miles Were Once a Crime: How Airline Deregulation Saved Executives From Jail

Feb 02 2025

The Sabena case was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. Sabena’s defense was that this was common practice in the industry. Airlines all denied it, and pointed fingers at other carriers including Pan Am and TWA as well as KLM and other foreign carriers flying across the North Atlantic. Ultimately a consent decree was entered into, and an Iberia executive was jailed for continuing the practice.

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Not Running For Office, But Running For Elite Status? Kyrsten Sinema’s $20K Marriott Stay & 49 American Airlines Charges

Feb 02 2025

Perhaps nobody enjoyed the perks of using donated campaign cash on travel as much as the former one-term Senator from Arizona. Halfway through her term she became an independent. The expectation was she’d avoid a Democratic primary this way, since the once-liberal firebrand had moved to the center while in office. She had plenty of money on hands in her campaign coffers, and she kept spending it on travel – even as she was no longer campaigning.

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With So Many Seats Jammed Into Airbus A320s, Lufthansa Flight Attendants Forced Onto Folding Camping Chairs—Without Seatbelts

Feb 01 2025

Lufthansa keeps making strange decisions with the interiors of its aircraft, and not learning from the experience of other airlines. They’ve crammed so many seats into their Airbus A320neo aircraft that there’s virtually none left for the galley – and this leaves them to seat a flight attendant on a folding chair.

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