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A baggage handler in Phuket, Thailand rifles through someone’s luggage and ultimately steals a bluetook speaker off of a flight bound for Singapore on October 10. The theft was filmed, police arrested him, and he returned the speaker.
Qatar Airways tried to buy into American Airlines. However American’s CEO Doug Parker took umbrage at the move.
Now Qatar is investing in an airline that’s going to move to DFW.
What if a legacy carrier could take low cost carrier competition and – as Grover Norquist once said — “drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub?”
British Airways parent IAG has acquired a 4.61% stake in Norwegian and plans to initiate acquisition discussions. Of course IAG says they view Norwegian as ‘an attractive investment’. At this point almost no one views Norwegian as an attractive investment.
Using American miles to fly between the US and Asia can be a challenge for two passengers. Those based at the DFW hub have an even greater challenge — tremendous competition for award seats from other frequent flyers, and that most of the oneworld Asia service is on American which isn’t great about releasing premium cabin award space to begin with.
Crew left a note for the flight attendants who would be working the ongoing segment. At the end of the note they wrote, “Great group of passengers, we did our best with the limited resources we had.“
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
British Airways has destroyed their brand with their cuts. They offered free tap water but even hot water for tea was charged. On. British. Airways. So you had to pay even if you brought your own tea bags.
Perhaps because of how much BA awards cost they’re also usually pretty available. And they have released space pretty reliably when the flight schedule opens.
However first class awards between North America and London seem to disappear completely in 2019.
On a Thursday Minneapolis – San Jose flight on Delta two passengers became sick and threw up. And that caused five other passengers around them to throw up, too. Passengers reported the flight was so bumpy it felt like a boat.
That was just the start.
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