News and notes from around the interweb:
- American may be planning to scale back international flying from New York JFK, but they do plan to add JFK – Denver next year..
American A321T and New York JFK in Winter - Passenger was so drunk police had to come onboard — just to help him off the plane
- Man says he needs groin surgery after rough TSA search
- Puff piece on American Airlines investments in its Charlotte hub
- “The only race US airlines seem interested in winning is the race to the bottom.”
Putting America first shouldn’t entail supporting [Delta, United and American]. It should entail giving Americans the best flying experience money can buy.
- The convenient timing of United’s announcement of new Denver – London service
- Airlines, in a nutshell.
“Nutsell,” Gary? In reference to that poor fellow enduring the TSA “groin search” at ORD, perhaps you meant to write “nutswell.”
FINALLY. I travel to DEN a lot from the NY area and am an AA EXP. Often I take DL for convenience. This introduces a good option for me, and who knows, maybe competition in the market will keep prices manageable.
With respect to the “race to the bottom”, I traveled a lot outside the U.S. in the last months, and was again struck by the difference between the U.S. based airlines and their foreign counterparts. It’s embarrassing to me to think of people coming from areas with pleasant air service, who have to take a legacy U.S. airline on a domestic flight here. They must think they mistakenly wound up in Bangladesh or something. (No offense to Bangladesh – I have not been there and maybe their air service is good and I should use a different example.)
I remember a conversation with one man, to whom I remarked that my previous flight was premium economy on United, but now I’ll be stuck in a middle seat in coach for my next flight, on ANA. His response, “You have nothing to worry about. You’ll be better off in a middle seat in coach on ANA than in premium economy on United.”