Texas Senator John Cornyn is calling for more airline subsidies and the arguments being deployed now are even crazier than before.
These payroll subsidies have become more expensive and cover a shorter period of time, even though airline payrolls are lower than they were during the first bailout. And deploying the argument that vaccines won’t be transported without airline subsidies is both terribly cynical and untrue.
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An American Airlines passenger says flight attendants retaliated against him for pointing out they hadn’t been wearing masks.
Police met his aircraft in Palm Springs and took him into “a tiny, non-vented room” and told him he was reported as an “unruly passenger.”
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The President of the American Airlines flight attendants union Julie Hedrick sent a note to cabin crew members where she takes credit for preventing their airline from offering full beverage service in economy.
It’s one of several tidbits she reveals in a new communication with flight attendants.
OAG schedule data shows which airlines and which regions have brought schedules back closest to pre-pandemic levels.
As Covid-19 epidemics spread like wildfire both in the U.S. and Europe, European flight schedules have been pulling back amidst lockdowns while U.S. passenger travel has held firm and grown slightly entering the Thanksgiving period. In fact the entire world’s week-over-week increase of 400,000 seats is accounted for by Southwest Airlines.
A video posted to TikTok, with nearly 70,000 likes and over 2600 comments, appears to show a woman being removed from an aircraft as she argues over the politics of Morocco, and U.S. relations towards the North African nation. Of all the things to be kicked off a flight for!
She grabs and nearly tackles the employee taking her bag off the aircraft and proceeds to lecture employees on Morocco.
SkyTeam’s Korean Air is acquiring Star Alliance member Asiana. Now the Prime Minister of Japan is talking about the need to merge ANA and Japan Airlines as part of injecting subsidies into his country’s two largest airlines.
Reprising an offer from September, LifeMiles is selling miles with a 200% bonus through December 3.
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