News and notes from around the interweb:
- Singapore Air Eyes Overseas Hub After Being Trapped by Covid (Bloomberg, HT: @crucker)
- One spouse tests positive for Covid-19 while abroad, do they both stay and quarantine, or is it ok for one of them to go home? (WaPo)
- “There’s no one else I’d want to spend the rest of my tomorrows with. Will you marry me?” (She said yes.)
Just saw this on my flight on @SouthwestAir to Houston. Truly sharing the love! #loveSouthwest pic.twitter.com/2OWj6rNNod
— Susiebird (@ImSusiebird) May 31, 2022
- Pilot calls police for help after ground staff abandon flight meanwhile disabled man abandoned on plane calls police for help
- Business travelers face higher prices, and packed flights, hotels you’ve experienced it yourself.
- Southwest Airlines will extend expiring flight credits for 6 months wait until close to the end of validity to get the maximum time out of the new vouchers.
Temporary Additional Flexibility – Effective June 1, 2022
$100 will not be deducted: For all Customers who contact us between June 1 and December 31, 2022, letting us know they are unable to use their funds during the RTF validity period, we will issue a Southwest LUV Voucher for the full value of the RTF, which means temporarily, you will not deduct $100 per our normal GOG exception.
No longer required to contact us after the expiration date: Customers do not need to wait to contact us after the RTF expires. Between June 1 and December 31, 2022, If Customers contact us to advise they are unable to use their funds before the expiration date of the RTF and they do not want to wait until after the expiration date to request a Southwest LUV Voucher, we will force close the RTF and issue the SLV immediately. Please explain to the Customer that the SLV will be valid for six months from the issue date.
- The latest United Airlines filing on South African route authorities cites me 4 times (regarding Delta’s pandemic operational challenges). Always strange, and I’m non-partisan, American Airlines has blasted out my stuff on their JetBlue joint venture to their entire congressional staff database as well.
More of a holiday effect, but I checked flights yesterday DCA-XNA for 7/1 – non-stop coach was $1,300, first was $1,900… about 4x what I’m used to seeing. 7/2 was the same way. Fortunately I was able to go 6/30 instead, where first came in at $600+, about $200 more than I usually pay but still within reason.
Crazy thing, from the seat maps it looks like 7/1 and 7/2 flights aren’t even 1/4 full. I’m sure AA knows what they’re doing though…
Wish I had known that Southwest would extend expiring travel funds for 6 months. Even before this temporary new policy, I would have happily given up $100 in funds to extend the rest. I had hundreds worth in funds expire a few months ago. Now I can’t find the details needed to try to resurrect them.
We booked two round trip tickets from Orlando to Islip over a year ago. I used one round trip last November. Do we still have credits from our original booking?