United Airlines has 140 new Boeing 787s on order, which they will use to grow their fleet and to replace Boeing 767 and 777-200 aircraft. They’ve been working on a new business class product for several years, and it appears that this seat will debut with the delivery of new Boeing 787-9s.
Aviation watchdog JonNYC broke the news about the configuration of these planes.
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Some businesses are jumping on the tariff narrative to nickel and dime customers for nonsense. The Hampton Inn Dublin in Virginia appeared to impose a $2 fee to print receipts.
The mid‑level manager wheels his carry‑on down the identical beige hallway, swipes a keycard, and steps into the cool sterility of a Hilton Garden Inn perched off the interstate, a full twenty‑five minutes from anything resembling downtown.
What’s new is that they’ve introduced points transfers to hotels and airlines. Their CEO tells me “We will be adding many more transfer partners and other amazing redemption options in the coming months.” In the meantime these are the launch partners…
Anyone under age 25 is likely eligible for a discount on airfare – especially international airfare – of between 5% and 20%.
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Southwest can’t sell premium seats until they have enough planes converted to be sure that the plane operating a given flight will have the new seats. They’re converting planes throughout 2025, but it’ll be 2026 flights that have these assigned seats.
That means you become increasingly likely throughout 2025 to wind up with a plane that has premium seats, but where seats are still available free on a first-come, first-served basis.
The Polaris business class seat remains a laggard. Though they were testing concepts for new business suites with doors 3 years ago, we still haven’t seen a new product. It appears that an announcement is coming in May and that doors remain an open question owing it sounds to me like the FAA’s insistence on additional flight attendant staffing for them.
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 »
