News and notes from around the interweb:
- Passenger Puts Seat Stealers In Their Place: ‘I Just Want Them To Be Able To Identify Our Body In The Event Of A Crash’ (HT: Paul H)
- You can listen to me on the Travel Weekly podcast covering “What travel policy might look like under President Trump”
- Airlines like to talk about business travel’s return. The truth is that it’s come back more domestically than internationally, and certainly has not returned to trend. “Recovering” is always phrased relative to 2019-levels, but in 2019 business travel was growing and we’d have been at higher levels today if not for the pandemic.
Among the most premium business travel markets in the world in London Heathrow. British Airways operated big business class cabins for a reason. So how’s that going? Brian Sumers, in his well worth paying for newsletter, noted this from the British Airways parent IAG earnings call:
Managed travel is only 65 percent recovered by volume and 80 percent by revenue, executives said. Things look better when the airline measures “people that travel for business reasons,” however. Executives said that segment is more than 70 percent recovered by volume and 90 percent recovered by revenue.
- The saddest thing is watching what happens to premium cabin champagne at the end of the flight… down the drain it goes.
- San Francisco temporarily triumphs over Oakland in airport name change saga
- Not embedding the image or explanation because of foul language but I think this may be the strangest explanation of getting kicked off a flight over attire I’ve seen (and strangest because of the passenger’s inability to articulate it) – still, they don’t look unfit to fly Southwest to be honest.
- Viceroy Hotels brand relaunch focuses on experience and pushing out a couple of properties that didn’t want to invest. (Skift)
- Delta scolded passengers for stealing fruit from Sky Clubs. Members began fighting back, but now they’re just being taunted… “They have an employee ready to revoke your sky club access outside the club ”
FLL sky club testing passengers. This was right by the exit
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If one’s seat is stolen , one can simply drag the offender out of one’s seat , no ?
If an animal pig has occupied one’s seat , chase him out with a firecracker , no ?
Simple solution .
I hate these links where they drag out one simple story into this long page just to feed a bunch of ads. Please dont link those.
@KL … The only ad I see is a big bowl of bananas for the lounge monkeys .
That story about the charred remains can’t possibly be fictional. No bloggers make up fake stories for clicks.
I’ve boarded as early as possible in my group and found someone sitting in my seat quite a few times. I have always got them to move, sometimes with the help of a flight attendant. I have been seated after getting on with my group and had someone with a duplicate seat assignment try to get me to give up my seat using a flight attendant. I have argued successfully that since that was my seat assignment and I got there first, I retained the right to the seat. I also had that seat assignment since the time I booked and chose it months before. I’m not sure why the airline chose to cause a conflict but it wasn’t really my problem.
@jns … Depends on who wants your seat . If it is a fiercely angry Mike Tyson , you will say “sure thing sir” .