Jul
05
2021
How many did you get right? And, like me, did you fail to frame your answers in the form of a question?
Jeopardy! Had A Credit Card Category, How Many Answers Do You Know?
Basic Economy Passenger Gets Paid 10 Times His Ticket Cost To Take Later Flight
Jul
05
2021
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
British Airways Wouldn’t Give Family A Spoon To Feed One Year Old, Because They Were In Coach
Jul
04
2021
Club Europe isn’t very good on British Airways, it’s generally a coach seat without extra legroom and just a blocked middle seat, plus food. There’s less seat pitch than on Ryanair. Since the spoon is really the main differentiator between the classes on this class-conscious airline, ‘cutlery is for club class.
American Airlines Labor Leader Calls Out Carrier’s Poor Product In Viral Email To Management
Jul
04
2021
After years of cost cuts, one of the airline’s labor leaders has had enough. On July 2, the President of the flight attendants’ union Los Angeles crew base wrote an email to CEO Doug Parker and President Robert Isom that’s going viral within the company.
American Airlines To Start Feeding First Class Passengers On 900+ Mile Flights
Jul
04
2021
It’s not a return of hot meal service, but first class passengers on flights of 900 miles or more will again see something more than a shrink-wrapped turkey and cheese sandwich starting July 14.
Will Covid Take Down Travel Again In The Fall?
Jul
03
2021
Here most places have re-opened. There’s an expectation that many businesses will return to the office in the fall. Schools are expected to be open. Already leisure travel has returned to pre-pandemic levels, and in some places has exceeded it. But is this state of affairs going to last?
When leisure travel tapers in the fall it won’t yet be replaced by business travel. And spread of the Delta variant amongst unvaccinated populations without immunity from prior infection could lead to real challenges for the industry.
Hotel Cancels Award Stay Because They Found Someone Better To Rent Rooms To
Jul
03
2021
Your travel reservations are never guaranteed, if the travel provider can sell your trip to someone else for (enough) more money. I wrote recently about Hilton cancelling all summer reservations at a Hawaiian hotel property, leaving guests with few options when the hotel had a chance to sell out to a single group booking. Now a similar situation has happened with Hyatt, though unsurprisingly Hyatt did more for the guests that were bumped.
A customer booked at Alila Ventana Big Sur in September on points for their 25th anniversary found that their reservation was being cancelled by the hotel because the property got a better deal from a group booking.
Supreme Court Ruling Shows Why Airline Mask Mandate Is Illegal
Jul
03
2021
The Supreme Court refused to overturn the CDC’s eviction moratorium, even though a majority of justices believe that it is illegal. And the same reasons 5 justices believe the eviction moratorium is beyond the CDC’s authority apply to the federal transportation mask mandate as well.
Is United Blocking Members From Booking Awards On Lufthansa?
Jul
03
2021
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
The Former Pan Am And Continental CEO Who Gave Us American AAdvantage Has Passed Away
Jul
03
2021
We are losing the men (and back then, they were all men) who gave us the modern frequent flyer program. Last year Rolfe Schellenberger passed away. Now his boss Tom Plaskett has passed away as well. Plaskett was just 77.
