No one seems more concerned with assigned seating on Southwest Airlines than the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance.
Of course Southwest is making a lot of changes to improve revenue, pushed by activist investor Elliott Management. They might choose to revise their policy of refunding extra seat purchases on flights that aren’t sold out. And they haven’t said they won’t do it!
Virgin Atlantic is making major changes to their frequent flyer program in one month but they refuse to give us the details of those changes.
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For the most part, airport departure boards in the U.S. list flights alphabetically by destination. This makes sense. It makes it easy to find your flight, whether or not it’s on time, and what gate it’s leaving from.
In much of the rest of the world, it does not work like this. Departures boards are organized by departure time. You have to know your exact departure time to the minute in order to find your flight.
I boarded an American Airlines flight from Austin to Dallas, and the flight attendant standing in the first class galley was still wearing a “WAR” pin on his uniform. “We Are Ready” (to strike). That seemed odd, since cabin crew have ratified the agreement their union negotiated with the company.
United Airlines is holding an event in October where they’ll reveal new routes they’re launching. Aviation watchdog JonNYC says that United will be adding a “different, high volume” destination in Southeast Asia.
After Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called Ed Bastian, ‘reminding him about his airline’s responsibilities to passengers’, the airline became more reasonable covering costs for stranded passengers. Delta had previously refused to pay for tickets that travelers were stuck buying on other airlines.
However, CEO Bastian has put Buttigieg on blast over this.
Clara Jeffery, editor-in-chief of Mother Jones which is often described as “left-leaning” or “far left,” took to social media to blast a union flight attendant at Alaska Airlines over their landing announcement where the editor complains that passengers were wished a “blessed” night prior to arrival in San Francisco.
Cabin crew kept the windows locked in the dimmed position beginning after takeoff, and up until final approach to London Heathrow.
She is a fearful flyer in turbulence, and asked flight attendants to let her open her window. She was told they would, but didn’t, and believes that window seat passengers should have control of the window. She’ll even choose planes with manual window shades in the future, so she doesn’t give up control of them to flight attendants. She was just too scared when turbulence hit.
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 »
