News and notes from around the interweb:
- More on whether Los Angeles is still a United hub
- It turns out the reader who tipped us off to the $21 deal at the Hyatt Regency Paris has a blog. I’ll definitely be adding it to my list to read.
- Emirates has changed how it prioritizes operational upgrades: it no longer bumps up passengers to higher cabins based on status, ordering first on fare type instead.
- Qatar’s Hamad International Airport is adding a $10 departure fee effective with tickets issued December 1 onward. This applies to connecting passengers as well as originating ones, so will hit Qatar Airways the hardest.
- Boeing wants the worst airline in the world to take new 787s instead of 777s. Here’s Boeing’s letter to the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
- With the caveat that “I hope [Director Clint Eastwood] doesn’t go too far in vilifying what is a very noble profession: air crash investigator” a legacy US Airways Airbus A320 captain says that based on the trailers the new Sully “truly shines” and seems surprisingly accurate. Coming September 9..
Windbag Miles? Great name for a blog, and not to mention, as he does, French poststructuralists like Deleuze and Guattari and their anti-Hegelianism. (I got this from Wiki.) And in the context of points and miles? Well, fuck all this talk about the “hobby” and let’s bend our brains, this is flying in some mighty turbulent weather. But this is a guy with some pointed opinions, and very much fun to read. And you don’t have to know anything about poststructuralism. Or the French, for that matter.
I guess Boeing are worried about PIA getting a taste of the opposition with them leasing the Sri Lankan A330’s?