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Hopefully this messaging suggests we’re closer than ever to a new agreement that both sides can live with – and then that the union can sell the contract they negotiate to flight attendants, who have been promised that the wait will be worth it in terms of big raises and full retro pay for four and a half years since their deal became amendable.
American Airlines and its flight attendants union were summoned to a rare Saturday meeting in Washington, D.C. by the National Mediation Board.
The Mediation Board did not tell the parties that they were being released to ‘self-help’. Instead, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants told its members that negotiations continue.
An American Airlines passenger was caught vaping at his seat in economy. The passenger behind him who filmed was appalled – and complained that cabin crew “won’t do anything” about it. I suspect that this passenger didn’t say anything to flight attendants, and was just being passive aggressive – crew would likely have told the man to stop. He may have just faded into the sea of coach customers and gone about unnoticed?
American Airlines is having problems feeding passengers, at least at two of its large hubs. While passengers aren’t necessarily being warned in advance to buy food and drinks inside the terminal before they board, they’re in for a surprise that their flight might not have anything for them once they’re in the air.
The National Mediation Board has called American Airlines and its flight attendants union to D.C. for a meeting this Saturday, after what the union described as “last ditch” negotiations failed just over a week ago.
American Airlines is publishing roundtrip business class fares between Denver and South America – Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Santiago and perhaps elsewhere – from $898.
When American Airlines sells you something and doesn’t deliver it, their position is often that they get to keep the money. If it’s part of a ‘bundle’ like what is sold as a Main Plus fare, and they don’t deliver parts of the bundle, you don’t get any money back.
Fiji Airways doesn’t have a points program. They’re the primary carrier at their destination, and haven’t seen the need to invest for locals. For foreigners, if you’re going to Fiji it’s probably only once and you’re not going to stay loyal to the airline. There are passengers who connect over Fiji, of course, and where points could sway their choice of destination and therefore carrier. But they haven’t previously invested.
To answer ‘who’s the biggest on the Fourth of July’ we’re mostly asking who carries passengers from the most places domestically to the most places domestically, and looking at most flights, even with smaller planes and fewer seats, makes sense.
In an internal American Airlines Jetwire for employees, the company shared what happened to a group of school children visiting Washington, D.C. from Bermuda on June 15th.
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