A quick note about what airlines are doing if you have a flight scheduled to Mumbai:
US carriers have resumed flights to Mumbai, but all are offering to re-accomodate if you have a flight in the next week or so.
Continental: If you have travel between now and December 2nd, you can change the flight to depart [...]
Quick Self-Serving Note: Online Travel Review is quoted in the Wall Street Journal yesterday (here - bottom story) talking about the airline industry reaction to the attacks in Mumbai.
Read the Rest of the Story: OTR in the NewsAs we head into Thanksgiving, I thought I would share a kind word about Spirit Airlines. Spirit is the most maligned US carrier, with people frequently complaining about their service, their gruff CEO, their lack of customer care, their baggage fees, their planes, their routes, their this, their that. Boo hoo, I say.
I flew Spirit [...]
British Airways is offering Club World tickets to London from New York for just $1996 round trip (plus about $250 in various taxes) if you book by December 1st for travel through March 22. Though it’s twice the price, the $3996 sale they’re offering on First Class tickets is actually a bigger deal, as [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: British Airways Offers $1996 Club World Tickets to London (and $3996 First Class Tickets)You may find it a bit annoying after you buy a ticket that once you figure in the various fees for checked bags, etc, your fare is actually far more than you thought. Well, Sabre, the travel agency technology company (known as a GDS, or Global Distribution System), has an answer with their new [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Travelocity Will Soon Let You Compare Fares AND Fees All at OnceFrontier Airlines announced that it will now charge $75 for same-day confirmed standby. This is an improvement over the old system, where you paid the difference in fare (ie, the Southwest Airlines policy), which was typically more than $75. Though it’s worse than the system most airlines used to have where you could [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Frontier to Charge $75 for Same Day Standby (That’s an Improvement…)Pleasant Hawaiian Holidays is offering a great deal we haven’t seen in ages: $349 gets you 3 nights in a hotel in Oahu plus a flight from San Francisco (January 12-26). Other islands are available as well, including Maui from $399.
Thanks, Frommers)
Despite the recent announcements for new international routes, Delta is saying that 2009 is going to see a further decrease in passenger demand. They made a regulatory filing on Friday that suggests they will cut international and domestic capacity next year in expectation that customers will further curtail flying. Assuming they can get [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Delta Prepares to Shrink Further in 2009Ugh…Sometimes when things seem too good to be true:
That Delta promo I mentioned last week where you earned a 150% bonus for partner activity is now showing up as not available. (Flyertalk has a thread here). The long and short is that depending on whom you speak to at Delta, either there is a technical [...]
An elderly passenger flying back from visiting an assisted living home in upstate New York did not get the living assistance she needed after a US Ariways flight attendant put her on a flight to San Juan. Which would’ve been fine, but she lives in Tampa. US Airways can’t explain exactly how that [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: US Airways Puts Elderly Tampa Passenger on Flight to Puerto Rico