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Did Airlines Help to Stop Oil Speculation?
Jan 8th, 2009 | By Dan Webb
The January 6 ATA SmartBrief (a free newsletter that is well worth subscribing to) linked to a letter to the editor of Crain’s Chicago Business from Air Transport Association President James C. May about oil speculation. (The letter can be found here, but registration for a trial subscription is required.)
The letter was in response to [...]
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Openskies: Prem+ Tickets to Amsterdam for $1000 Round Trip (Including Taxes)Jan 8th, 2009 | By Jared Blank
Openskies is offering an amazing deal for travel to Amsterdam: $1,000 (taxes included!) gets you a round trip flight from JFK to Amsterdam in their amazing Prem+ cabin (see here for Openskies review). Prem+ is basically a non-flat bed international business class. Book by January 26th and fly by May 31st.
Read moreJetBlue to Pay Man $240,000 for T-Shirt Based Descrimination
Jan 6th, 2009 | By Jared Blank
JetBlue has been ordered to pay $240,000 to a passenger who was wearing a t-shirt that had “We Will Not Be Silent” written on it in English and in Arabic (I’m guessing the English part was not the problem). Apparently TSA and JetBlue staff initially would not allow him to board the plane (brilliant [...]
Read moreAir India Fires 10 Flight Attendants for Being Too Fat
Jan 5th, 2009 | By Jared Blank
Air India, which has strict rules about how much their flight attendants can weigh, has fired 10 of its staff for being too fat (whether or not they were Phat was not mentioned in the article). According to the airline, “an 18-year-old air hostess with a height of 152 cm, the maximum weight permissible is [...]
Read more40 Drunk Passengers “Run Amok” on Flight to Cuba
Jan 5th, 2009 | By Jared Blank
40 passengers on a Thomas Cook flight from from London Gatwick to Varadero, Cuba, got drunk and caused a great deal of general mayhem during the trip. The inebriated passengers, believed to be from Ireland, smoked and allowed their children to “thump” (the article’s word) other passengers on the plane. One unhappy person on the [...]
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Northwest Introduces Reward Booking Fees for Flights Booked 20 Days or Fewer in Advance Jan 2nd, 2009 | By Jared Blank
Northwest Airlines may not be around much longer, but they’re going out with a bang if you’re hoping to use your Worldperks miles. Northwest (unlike a number of its partners) previously had allowed you to use Worldperks miles to book a trip with little advance purchase without hitting you with a fee. No longer. Tickets [...]
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2009 Could be Rough: Delta Shelves Raleigh-Paris, Gothenberg Before Launch Jan 2nd, 2009 | By Jared Blank
About a month ago I wondered how Delta could possibly launch new flights it had announced between Raleigh and Paris. The answer? The couldn’t. Delta said it would not launch the Raleigh-Paris flights as scheduled. Nor would they launch service to Gothenberg (sorry, Marcus!), and they are canceling JFK- Buenos Aires and a second flight [...]
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