British Airways CEO Willie Walsh told Parliament that, perhaps, just perhaps in hindsight BA wasn’t actually ready to open Terminal 5 last month. It may have been the thousands and thousands of lost bags that led to that conclusion. Or the 28 elevators that weren’t working. Or whatever. (In case you were wondering, 125 bags [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: British Airways CEO on Terminal 5 Disaster: OopsFuel cost have caused Oakland and LAX to lose existing and planned service: American is pulling out of Oakland after serving the city for more than 60 years. Oakland has also lost service from ATA, Aloha and Skybus in the past month or so.
JetBlue said that it will not launch planned service between LAX and [...]
Delta is offering a $50 Amex gift card if you book a flight between JFK and LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Portland and Seattle for travel through the end of June. Take that, JetBlue.
(Reader Tom points out that JetBlue has a similar promotion – book your JetBlue ticket by May 16 for flights until [...]
American Airlines recently lost a lawsuit filed by skycaps in Boston who claimed they had lost wages because of American’s $2-per-bag charge for curbside check-in. American’s subcontractor for skycaps then raised hourly rates for skycaps to about $12-14/hr, from the $5.15 per hour they used to receive (along with a hefty set of tips).
In response, [...]
Beleaguered South African lowfare carrier Nationwide Airlines shut down a couple of days ago for the usual reasons (fuel, no pricing power) and an unusual reason (people questioned the company’s safety record after an engine fell off a plane). Now, sources are reporting that a couple of companies are interested in stepping in purchasing the [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: South Africa’s Nationwide Airlines Shutters; Buyers May Step InA heavily intoxicated male passenger died on a Moscow-to-Toronto flight yesterday, and police are treating the death as suspicious. Authorities in Toronto spent 5 hours interviewing all of the passengers and discovered (stereotypes aside) that several people on the flight were drinking large quantities of alcohol straight from large bottles. The dead passenger was one [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Passenger Dies on Aeroflot Flight to Toronto