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Today Delta announced its the completion of its LAX terminal renovation and the cost figure is $229 million.
There’s a new business class check-in lounge, a revamped club, new restaurants in the terminal, and more. Here are the details and renderings.
IATA has issued new recommendations for maximum carry on size — and it’s smaller than what the major US airlines currently allow. Is it just a ploy to extract more checked bag fees from passengers?
Airlines want lower costs to distribute their tickets and greater flexibility in how their fares are displayed — especially the ability to upsell unbundled products through whatever channels are distributing their fares.
Delta is limiting the sites that can display its fares. Lufthansa has declared that all ‘indirect channels’ (like travel agents, online booking websites) have to pass on a 16 euro fee for their tickets.
This is a war between airlines and their distribution partners, and they’ll bloody each other in the process. While not convenient for consumers, you won’t really feel the losses here.
It was a sort of clever idea at first, “May the 4th be with you!” But brands spend a lot of money on consultants and ad firms to try to graft onto internet members. And so brands can’t stop tweeting about Star Wars Day. Denver international Airport got into the meme (though I sure hope they didn’t spend a lot of money doing it, they need all the reserves they can get to deal with continued baggage system problems). A full set of photos are available on the Denver airport’s Facebook page. Check them out. Really. Here’s a taste: I’m left with several questions. No doubt you can add your own. Denver is a United hub. Is that Jeff Smisek guiding in the plane? What does it say about TSA that Darth Vader brought to…
When travel companies ask what their social media strategy should be, they’re missing the point. They need to understand their business, and do it well. Then they need to communicate authentically with their customers, wherever they happen to be.
Social media strategy isn’t even a thing. You have a business strategy, and then a willingness to be real with your customers. Anything else is a waste…
Traveling on separate tickets is sometimes necessary to save money, or to put together award travel. But it presents risks.
If you’re connecting on different airlines with separate tickets, neither airline may be responsible for getting you to your final destination if things go awry. And you may not even be able to check your bags all the way through, either.
Here’s how different US airlines approach the problem, and what you can do to protect yourself.
Congressman Bill Shuster is in the pocket of the airline industry. And in bed with them, too. Congressional rules allow him to ‘fall in love with’ whomever he wishes. But he shouldn’t continue on as Transportation Committee Chairman.
The New York Times has a useful piece that helps understand what makes a credit card useful for consumers, and identifies some of the best ones currently in the marketplace.
Checked bag fees now total billions of dollars in the US. Airlines make real money off them… but not for the reason you think. There are hidden costs that obscure what’s really going on when an airline charges you that fee. This is what you may not realize about those checked bag fees..
It struck me reading about ten of the ‘most garbage’ airports in the world that while many of these are bad, the worst are completely left off — especially the worst U.S. airports.
It’s simply unreasonable to consider Chicago O’Hare worse than New York LaGuardia and… Manila.
Paris and Frankfurt are awful. JFK is worse than LaGuardia. And where’s Miami on this list? Here are the worst airports, and the ones that deserve a reprieve. Although I’ve only ever seen roosters break out of a cage at baggage claim in Manila..
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 »
