Booking inaugural routes is almost as fun as flying them, right?? Plus A321Ts parked, AirAsia Japan dying and United’s November growth plans.
DLD 299: Openings and closings
- July 9, 2020
- Tagged as: 737 MAX, 747, 747-8i, Air Canada, American Airlines, award, awards, bankruptcy, Boeing, British Airways, Delta Air Lines, EasyJet, Finnair, frequent flier, frequent flyer, Heathrow, joint venture, lavatory, LHR, lounge, lounges, Norwegian, points, Qantas, reward, rewards, Ryanair
More openings than closings should be good news for lots in the industry, though things remain precarious on many fronts.
DLD 298: Mixed awards, mixed messages
- July 2, 2020
- Tagged as: Air Canada, Air China, award, awards, bankruptcy, cash & points, China, China Eastern, China Southern, jetblue, LIAT, Pakistan, podcast, refunds, reward, rewards, routes, TSA
When an airline says it is concerned about passenger safety and then increases the number of seats sold that can be hard to reconcile. But at least they’re leaving it members of their cabin crew to keep posting anti-mask FUD on social media, right??
DLD 242: Cutting profits, cutting losses
- May 9, 2019
- Tagged as: Aer Lingus, Aeroflot, awards, bankruptcy, Bombardier, business class, crash, Delta Air Lines, Etihad, EuroBiz, first class, Heathrow, Jet Airways, Korean Air, LHR, Moscow, premium cabin, rewards, SkyMiles, SSJ100, sukhoi
Cutting money-losing programs makes sense in many cases. Selling off a profitable segment of the business is less normal. But here we are.
As award charts disappear is loyalty following them out the door? Plus a new A350 cabin and more MAX grounding discussions.
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 190: Get your engine running, head out on the skyway
- April 26, 2018
- Tagged as: AAdvantage, Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, awards, business aviation, business class, Cal Jet, Cancun, CFM, CLD, engines, General Electric, LAS, Las Vegas, marriott, Marriott Rewards, merger, Mexico, MIA, Miami, Norwegian, Polaris, rewards, Rolls Royce, Safran, San Diego, spg, starwood, Starwood Preferred Guest, Sun Country, Swaziland, United Airlines
Aircraft engines are causing more than their share of issues these days. Failures on the ground and in the air are raising lots of questions. We’re mostly about asking them, not answering them in this episode. Plus cabin retrofits, new planes, routes and more.
Welcome to 2018, where hotel loyalty programs are updating their rules and one is starting over completely. A late 2017 bankruptcy is finally getting resolved and new seats are coming (yes, slimlines) to a major European airline. And somehow we’re still relatively optimistic about the whole thing.
Does competition help or hurt product quality? Plus new airlines and new airplanes and new award charts all starting to show up.
DLD135: Action in Asia
- March 31, 2017
- Tagged as: american, American Airlines, Australia, awards, China, China Southern, Delta Air Lines, Korean Airlines, Phoenix, podcast, rewards, singapore, United, United Airlines, Westin
Lots of stuff happening in Asia, from partnerships to award travel to Singapore hawker stalls. Polaris takes a (bigger) delay and a Westin has math troubles.
