The AA pilot’s union continues to think that they’ll get a better deal from US Airways. Their union head thinks that’s the way things are headed right now. This still continues to baffle me. I’ve written before that Doug Parker isn’t really to be…
Might not be important for everyone, but hey, I thought they were all newsworthy. 🙂 American Airlines is talking expansion. They’re talking international expansion, which is music to my ears. I prefer to redeem my miles to cool places all over the world, so…
From Bloomberg, AA won’t be getting the 787-9 until “past 2014”. And, neither will anyone else. AA is still holding some pending orders for the 787, some of which will almost certainly be 787-8s. But, there’s unlikely to be anything firm there until AA…
View From The Wing has a synopsis on what is starting to seem like an inevitable change to revenue-based frequent flyer programs by the legacy domestic US carriers. Shockingly, I’m really not a big fan of revenue-based programs. While most of my fellow road…
View From The Wing has reported that you can now search for Air Berlin and Finnair awards online with American Airlines. For me, one of the biggest mileage values is using your miles for international travel (especially in business class). You used to have…
I generally don’t find purchasing miles to be lucrative. US Airways used to have a pretty good price, but they’ve raised prices since then to make it not quite such a good value. American Airlines AAdvantage is offering a discount on purchased miles again…
7 years later, they still can’t agree. Kinda like they didn’t last time. US Airways flight attendants rejected a contract that would have given them immediate 13% salary increase. That means 7 years after the merger between US Airways and America West, the two…
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a new iPhone out. 😀 I spoke with the small business manager at my local Verizon Wireless store last week and decided to take a drive over early Friday morning. Well, not too early, probably about 8:30 in…
Okay, so it’s early. But, I definitely like what I’m seeing. I just checked in for my flight tomorrow on United using my iPhone 6 and successfully moved my boarding pass to Passbook. I wrote about Passbook recently and was pretty pumped about the…
I summarized yesterday the recent (painful) struggles my favorite domestic carrier, American Airlines, has been having lately. And, then, this morning, the head of AA’s AAdvantage loyalty program sent out a note to some (or all) of the airline’s elite customers, saying the following:…