News and notes from around the interweb:
- Giveaway of semi-private jet inaugural flight tickets including domestic airfare to and from the inaugural
- 250 free Virgin America points for entering sweepstakes
- Uber publishes their first transparency report. Governments sure request a lot of data from them, and it’s mostly not even law enforcement.
- Congratulations to JohnnyJet whose wife got an immigration visa without using a lawyer
- How to earn miles and points without leaving home. Stephanie Rosenbloom in the New York Times recommends this blog.
- Would DOJ consider trying to block Alaska’s acquisition of Virgin American even though it’s not anti-competitive? Though I think Alaska overpaid, and would prefer Virgin America’s unique inflight product hang around, I actually see this merger as pro-competition since it turns Alaska Airlines into a larger player, on a path towards becoming big enough to give us a ‘fifth domestic airline’ (which we lost with the American-US Airways merger).
- That time Singapore Airlines almost bought Qantas
- Female Air France crew are being allowed to opt out of Iran flights because of the attire rules, to which some object. Now it seems that gay crewmembers don’t want to fly to Iran either.
I disagree. The merger will lead to reduced capacity and fewer seats. That can’t be good for consumers. On the basis of supply and demand alone
Perhaps I am just dense. What are the four domestic carriers? AA, DL, UA… WN? B6?
@LTL – Southwest is by some measures the biggest domestic travel airline
About the Johnny Jet immigration article — If they’d properly read VisaJourney, they’d have been fine.
I completed all the paperwork on my wife’s behalf and we went through the K-1 (aka “fiancee”) visa program and adjusted status once she got here. It was certainly a giant pain and remarkably expensive, but VisaJourney had everything documented and went well beyond what the USG provides as recommendations to ensure an expedited approval. The community is also extremely knowledgeable.
With all that said, it took an enormous amount of time reading VisaJourney, and I made my own mistake prior to her applying for the visa and it cost us almost 6 months (her J-1 visa had a physical presence requirement that I had interpreted as a residency requirement).
Meant to also mention congratulations to them on getting married, completing the process, and not needing a lawyer! 🙂