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How about being first on the upgrade list, there’s a seat available, and the gate agent doesn’t bother processing upgrades? Or someone no shows and the agent doesn’t bother coming on board to upgrade someone into the seat.
Or, there’s what happened to this American Airlines passenger: they were first on the list, a first class seat was available, but it was broken? It’s always the American Airlines Airbus A320s.
You no longer need to spend any money on this card to earn its Loyalty Point bonuses, and the potential to earn these bonuses has doubled. What’s more, it appears that new cardmembers receive the bonuses right away if they’ve already hit the 50,000 and 90,000 Loyalty Point thresholds this year.
On July 2, an American Airlines passenger declares that a man seated by her was “not real” and warned everyone that if they stayed on board the flight they would die.
The incident that first made the marketing executive with an undergraduate degree from Oklahoma State go viral was an argument with family over Apple AirPods.
On Thursday American Airlines flight 5916 from Charlotte to Gainesville, operated by their wholly-owned regional carrier Piedmont, experienced a cabin pressurization issue about 200 miles out from Gainesville. Oxygen masks deployed in the cabin, and pilots initiated an emergency descent in order to get down to 10,000 feet.
Venus Williams flew American Airlines to Canada, but American sent her bags to the Bahamas. When she was supposed to be preparing for a tennis match, she was instead focused as her “full time job day and night” for three days calling the airline, hoping to get her bags back. She really doesn’t have people to do that for her?
American Airlines CEO Robert Isom laid out the reason he doesn’t like offering free travel as a form of compensation for employees – which might be surprising since he leads an airline.
Before the pandemic American basically squatted on slots, flying as little as possible without giving up their New York assets. More domestic short flights and less international long haul from New York could be a move back in that direction. Hopefully not – hopefully they’ve learned an important lesson they’ve articulated over the past two years.
American Airlines has stopped selling its New York JFK – Doha flight after October 28th. This flight is how American shuttles passengers to places like Lahore, Islamabad, and Dhaka – connecting them onto Qatar Airways. But American’s circumstances have changed in New York, and they’ll be shifting Doha flights to their Philadelphia hub starting October 29.
American Airlines no longer serves champagne in its long haul business class, offering only Italian sparkling wine Ferrari Brut TrentoDOC from Trentino, which is decidedly mid.
A ramp worker in Phoenix, reportedly working for American Airlines, came inside the terminal and completely stripped off his clothes at baggage claim. Naturally there is video.
Once he got naked he… did pushups. This all went on for several minutes before airport police responded and arrested the man.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
