Stranded and Furious: Why Everyone Loses Their Minds Dealing With Airlines (And How To Fight Back)

by Gary Leff

Aug 18 2024

I find that things go wrong with my travel quite often. Airlines fail to ticket reservations. I get put on standby for an earlier flight with the wrong priority. Requests I make don’t get entered. Seat assignments disappear. Names get misspelled on tickets even when I have reservations agents spell them back to me.

These things go wrong and I’m supposed to know what I’m doing. So sometimes I wonder how the average traveler manages to get from one place to another at all. Maybe they don’t?

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Unprecedented Pilot Wages In Peril: Is The Golden Era Already Over? JetBlue Cockpit Crew Think So

by Gary Leff

cockpit with pilot
Aug 18 2024

Pilots have been seeing record wages in new deals at the major carriers, in the face of paying too many to retire at the depths of Covid while not adding more to the pipeline, a recovery in air travel, and the time and cost to introduce new pilots as a result of government regulation lobbied for by the big pilot union ALPA. The tide may be about to turn.

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Guests Are Standing In Line For Hours Just To Check Into Las Vegas Hotels

by Gary Leff

Aug 16 2024

Long check-in lines are de rigueur in Las Vegas. People go to Vegas for a break, and the start of their trip is a queue – probably first for the ride from the airport to their hotel, and then to get into their room. What could be more of a mass experience, and what could make an upscale hotel feel more like Circus Circus than this?

This is reportedly a bigger problem at Caesars hotel properties like Caesars Palace and Planet Hollywood than at MGM hotels, and something that really began in earnest over the last couple of years due to insufficient staffing.

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