Telling tales and enjoying a winter holiday in Zagreb, Croatia. The sass mostly comes from others, not us.
A government shutdown and slowing airline expansion both take their toll. Plus an airline brand dies. But mistake fares live on!
Perhaps our most coherent episode yet. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Bad things come in threes, right? Hopefully that’s the case here as Boeing wraps a pretty bad run of incidents with its aircraft. Plus, a 3 day delay and a seized plane!
Is American’s new LAX terminal a bet against JFK? Why is Hertz joining SkyTeam? And what the heck is going on at British Airways??
DLD 214: A new Number 1 and new numbers for 1K
- October 11, 2018
- Tagged as: A380, American Airlines, British Airways, China, elite status, Emirates, high-speed rail, HSR, JFK, marriott, Marriott Rewards, merger, mileageplus, New York City, Norwegian, OTG, OTG Experience, podcast, spg, train, United Airlines, upgrades
United has new elite rules, Marriott still struggles, new A380 engines are stalled and Primera is dead. Rough week, huh?
Will a Middle East merger happen? Did a plane run very low on fuel? Is the new UA boarding process a joke? Lots of answers in this week’s show!
DLD 211: Speedy Delivery
- September 20, 2018
- Tagged as: 747-8i, Amsterdam, BOS, Boston, British Airways, business class, dining, Dubai, Hawaii, Hawaiian Airlines, HNL, Honolulu, Hyperloop, LOT, MEX, Mexico City, MIA, Miami, podcast, San Francisco, SFO, Turkey, United Airlines, Warsaw, WAW
In a growing industry where will all the planes go? SFO, MEX, AMS and many more are full while expansion options are limited. New catering, routes, boarding rules and a presidential 747 won’t change that, but we talk about them anyways.
United’s 737-10 and 787-10 combine to change the US transcon market, plus pilot housing in Hong Kong, a FAM gone wild and a potential strike in France. C’mon in!
Perhaps calling it one of the earliest travel tales is a stretch, but The Sea Queen by Linnea Hartsuyker is being released in the USA next week and we’re talking about some of the travel behind the scenes and the travel in the book, too. Plus, TSA idiocy and some problems in Europe with passengers slipping past security checkpoints.