We took the show on the road this week, and brought in a couple guests to spice things up. C’mon in!
DLD 351: Mandates and Contracts
- September 16, 2021
- Tagged as: Afghanistan, American Airlines, Billy Bishop, EasyJet, Germany, Kabul, KBL, Philippines Airlines, podcast, Porter Air, Toronto, United States, vaccines, WizzAir, YTZ
What if, instead of changing the contract to match the active policies, we fixed the policies to not suck?? Seems worth at least considering.
DLD 349: It’s a conspiracy!
- September 2, 2021
- Tagged as: 787, 787-10, 787-9, A321neo, A380, Air New Zealand, alitalia, awards, cash & points, Chicago, cruise, Delta Air Lines, frequent flier, frequent flyer, ITA Airlines, O'Hare, ORD, podcast, points, Qantas, rewards, singapore, Singapore Air, singapore airlines, South African Airways, United Airlines
Kicking off the show with a bad conspiracy theory about hurricanes probably isn’t our strongest play, but here we are. It gets better pretty quickly.
DLD 345: Teaming, trimming & traveling
- August 5, 2021
- Tagged as: Aeroplan, Air Canada, Allegiant, Allegient Air, alliance, alliances, American Airlines, Chase, credit card, credit cards, Delta Air Lines, dining, economy class, elite status, ExpressJet, first class, frequent flier, frequent flyer, high-speed rail, jetblue, JetSMART, KLM, lie-flat beds, London, loyalty, Lufthansa, medallion, Nordica, podcast, premium cabin, train, TSA, Uzbekistan, WestJet
More airline partnership and a key route trimmed. Plus, cool new trains and airlines and loyalty plays.
DLD 342: Red, Green, or Christmas??
- July 15, 2021
- Tagged as: Bilt Rewards, BlueOrigin, E195-E2, Embraer, loyalty, New Mexico, podcast, Porter Air, Premium Economy, Santa Fe, space, SpaceX, Swiss, Trip Report, Virgin Galactic
Points for paying rent? That’s the underlying premise of the new Bilt Rewards program and, well, it is very different from others that came before.
DLD 339: An uneven (and uneasy) recovery
- June 24, 2021
- Tagged as: 737 MAX 10, Airbus, American Airlines, Bombardier, Cape Town, CPT, CRJ900, Delta Air Lines, jetblue, JNB, Johannesburg, La Compagnie, Milan, MXP, ORY, Paris, podcast, routes, seating, seats, South Africa, South African Airways, St. Maarten, SXM, Tel Aviv, TLV, Trip Report, union
Opening back up is great, but the inconsistencies are hard to handle. So are the lines.
DLD 337: The Tropics of New England
- June 10, 2021
- Tagged as: AirBaltic, American Airlines, Boom, Boom Supersonic, Breeze Airways, COVID-19, COVID19, credit card, credit cards, cruise, Delta Air Lines, Emirates, inaugural, iOS, iPhone, JFK, JFK Airport, podcast, points, routes, supersonic, Trip Report, TSA, United Airlines, United Kingdom
Summer is heating up in more ways than one. Booking rooms in some destinations is dicey and seems unlikely to get better any time soon.
DLD 336: Woohoo!
- June 3, 2021
- Tagged as: airfare, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Belarus, Belize, Canada, elite status, frequent flier, frequent flyer, hijacking, jetblue, loyalty, podcast, Ryanair, upgrades
Many things are happening in the aviation and travel world. We’re talking about some of them in this week’s show.
DLD 335: It really was that nice
- May 27, 2021
- Tagged as: 737 MAX, Aerion, BizAv, Boeing, Breeze, Breeze Airways, business aviation, Canada, EWR, FAA, LaGuardia, lawsuit, LGA, Lufthansa, Newark, podcast, routes, Spirit Airlines, strike, supersonic, vaccines, Vancouver
A strike, two lawsuits, one shutdown and another airline launch, plus a production boost. The industry is full of happenings and we’re barely scratching the surface.
DLD 334: Live from New York…
- May 20, 2021
- Tagged as: COVID-19, COVID19, crash, Delta Air Lines, Haneda, Hawaii, HND, India, podcast, routes, Southwest Airlines, Tokyo, Trip Report, Vistara
A confluence of work, leisure, and just living has a trio of us on the Williamsburg waterfront on a gorgeous May Saturday for our first in-person recording in well over a year.
