News and notes from around the interweb:
- Lufthansa Miles & More 100,000 mile initial bonus offer after $3,000 in purchases in 90 days. $89 annual fee. Many of you will consider as a way to access Lufthansa Group premium cabin award space not offered to partners.
- 25% transfer bonus from American Express Membership Rewards to Air France KLM Flying Blue through September 22.
- Passengers kicked off Air Canada flight in Las Vegas because they refused to sit in vomit (HT Steve S)
- Air India updated its brand image
- New Hire Delta Air Flight Attendants Must Now Do ‘Community Service’ Like Pulling Weeds to Pass Their Probation This isn’t volunteering, they’re getting paid.
- The interiors on American Airlines A320s are trash.
Quick question…@AmericanAir is this acceptable for a first class seat?
I mean come on. pic.twitter.com/6kqdS2xxKh
— Jeff (@Cville300zx) September 1, 2023
Omg, remind me to never fly Air Canada!!
How about digging out the end of the Air Canada story. I hope the ladies found a good attorney.
If the blanket kept the remaining vomit off of me I probably could tolerate it. The lingering smell might be a problem. Stuff was done to help the situation but not enough evidently. But definitely if the passengers were taken off the flight they should have been put on the next one. They don’t deserve to be put on a no fly list. The forty minutes or so they kept arguing they could have kept trying to further clean the seats.
Re: A320 first class seat acceptable?
YES!
These pics (often seen in reviews of hotels) exaggerate the problem.
If it’s merely wear and tear — no mold, no odors, and you’re not going to be touching or eating off the surface — then it’s merely wear and tear. The airline (or hotel) is doing the environment a favor by leaving it as is. I would complain about defects that materially sour the experience or pose a health hazard. But a merely cosmetic defect is something I would let slide in all but the most expensive accommodations, which I never stay in anyway.
Every time I fly AC I wanna vomit too….
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, passengers can be infected with norovirus by accidentally ingesting tiny particles of feces or vomit in their mouth from a person infected with norovirus. Infected passengers shed billions of microscopic infectious particles after a norovirus infection. They get severely dehydrated and die. Accordingly, when Air Canada forces passengers to choose between sitting in vomit to avoid being added to the airline industry’s “no-fly list,” consider washing your hands for at least 20 seconds before eating or drinking.
Ironically, I wanted to vomit after reading the article about Delta requiring its employees to “volunteer”.
Fortunately I have never flown Air Canada (although I have flown to and from Toronto many times) and I will make sure I never do. What a disgusting airline.
Gary, please keep your eye on the story. I would like to read follow up. Thanks.
If they refused to sit there and there were no other seats, wouldn’t they have had to get off the plane voluntarily?
Gleff is always touting AC deals and miles. But remember this is the airline that sold out its mileage program and then created a new one. And this is an example of the mediocre customer service you can expect. No thanks, I would not ever want to bank miles in AC or risk having miles stuck there
I wonder if these passengers were elderly or older. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a case of age discrimination, which is very common nowadays.
Absolutely shocking behaviour from Air Canada I for one would not sit in any body fluids from any body especially after covid shame on the so called pilot
I think that the companion ticket offer on the Barclays LH card is interesting…..could we worth a lot on routes such as AUS-FRA+?