Foreign Policy has a fun little article about the top tourists spots that Americans can’t visit. If you’re American, you’re missing out on some beaches in Cuba and Somalia, as well as waterfalls in North Korea. Worth a read…
Read the Rest of the Story: The Top Tourist Spots You Can’t Visit (Assuming You’re an American)Say what you will about Spirit, their marketing has been really clever. They announced a deal today where if you guess who will win the election in November, they’ll give you a free flight. Basically. The longer version is if you buy a ticket for a bunch of dates between now and February, and if [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Spirit: Guess the President, Get a Free Flight (Pretty Much)The Wall St. Journal has an interesting article looking at how much it’s costing airlines to fly you from here to there - you may be surprised to hear that upwards of 70% of your fare may be going just to pay the fuel bill. For example, American’s fuel bill for a roundtrip flight [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: How Much Does the Fuel Cost for Your Next Flight?Good news for those of you in the US who were looking forward to seeing (or flying) the A380: Emirates announced that it will launch 3-times a week service between JFK and Dubai beginning August 1st (flights will be on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays). These flights will be the 3rd service on those days between [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Emirates to Launch A380 Service to New York on August 1stResidents of Philadelphia woke up Friday morning to see advertisements in their newspapers about the launch of Derrie-Air, where your airfare is determined by how much you weigh ($1.40/lb to fly to Chicago). Confused/horrified residents who clicked on the ad were sent to the airline’s website which, on the very bottom, mentions that it was [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Philadelphia’s Derrie-Air: Pay by the Pound (ha ha)A court in India has ruled that Air India has the right to fire flight attendants it considers to be overweight. The court agreed with the airline that overweight staff members posed a safety risk. To show how progressive they were, the court also added that a woman’s physical appearance plays an important part in [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Indian Court: Air India Can Fire Fat Flight AttendantsIt looks like you can’t put Silverjet in a corner: Despite all logic to the contrary, Silverjet has announced that it has received two offers to purchase the carrier and re-start it as a premium airline (go figure). One of those offers is from Lawrence Hunt, who ran the airline (he’s teamed up with [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Silverjet: He’s not Dead, Just StunnedContinental joins American and United in announcing significant job cuts and capacity reductions in the coming year. The airline said that it will cut about 3,000 jobs, and reduce mainline departures by 16% in the 4th quarter of this year (that represents about 11% of the available seat miles). Most of that will come from [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Continental to Eliminate Jobs, Capacity2 separate bits of news & rumor I’m putting in 1 post:
Spirit sent a letter to employees saying that they may have to lay off 60 percent of flight attendants and 45% of pilots. In the letter they mention that they may have to close their LaGuardia base for flight attendants. This [...]
A friend just wrote to tell me that he was planning on flying a same-day round trip with United today. He got a call last night canceling the flight. Here’s a rough transcript of the ensuing conversion:
Friend: OK, please change the day of my trip to next Wednesday.
United: No problem. That will be $150 for [...]
