News and notes from around the interweb:
- Chase 20% transfer bonus to Air Canada Aeroplan through January 15, 2024.
- Virgin Atlantic’s awards for travel on Delta are being devalued for travel January 1 onward. Prices for US-Europe remains the same, but distance-based travel to other regions gets generally more expensive (with nothing getting less expensive). Book today to get old pricing. They last devalued three years ago before walking it back.
- “The golden age of airport lounges is over” mostly an indictment of third party lounges in the U.K.
- Scandinavian will drop Washington Dulles service and launch Minneapolis to Copenhagen not because of Delta and SkyTeam as much as because the new largest owner of the airline is a company based in Minneapolis.
- Ethiopian considering new North America route. The contenders are Denver, Houston, Minneapolis, Seattle, and Montreal
- The overhead bins are empty. Why do airlines make you check your bag? (WaPo) Regular readers know.
Because they’re lazy, lying, trash.
Ppl without overhead bags should be allowed to deplane first
Had stated that I anticipated CPH-MSP would happen as a combination of DL@MSP and the Cargill/Minnesota guys involvement in SAS’s anticipated new cap table that comes with Swedes finally exiting as a shareholder with the bankruptcy process.
Looking forward to the route. By the way, the route really has nothing to do with how many people in the MSP/Minnesota area have Scandinavian ethnic roots.
Would love to see MSP get ET service. MSP seems to be getting some international route expansion as of late that I really will appreciate: Lufthansa, Aer Lingus, SAS departing MSP and can only hope Ethiopian comes in too. But I expect Ethiopian is much less likely to pick MSP than it is to pick IAH.
Lying to customers is part of the airline culture in the USA.
As for overhead space, my biggest gripe are the purses, coats, and laptop bags that go overhead. I guess I’m a bit forward, but I have asked “Who’s purse is this, can I re-stack it to accommodate my carry on?” I’ve gotten the Evil Eye stare in the past, but my bag is as valuable as your purse!!
I have seen American force group 9 to check their bags on half empty flight to punish them for buying basic economy
I can’t seem to read most of your articles as I am pushed to subscribe to publications such as the Washington Post. Seems misleading
@Esaphie3 The perp walk of the last to board is usually punishment enough unless you have aa flight attendants…
Need a better system for bag control vs mandatory checking
My bag is right size and I’ve been asked to check it then I see guys with backpacks 3 times the size of my carryon
I also think the personnel pick on people alone or older people I’ve flown for years they are getting more miserable