The New York Times is reporting that AA is very close to a deal with it’s pilots union. I may be whistling past the graveyard, but I think this is excellent news. AA and the pilots have been fighting negotiating for virtually 4 years. The…
American Airlines just extended a promotion I’ve been using for a while with my Hertz rentals. The CDP # is 217692 and the PC# is 169853. A decent amount of the time, using codes like these drive up the price of your rental, which…
AA and HP have agreed that HP will not be building a custom solution for AA’s new passenger services system. Maya Liebman, whom I know and respect, said in part: “I think we have tended to create our own thing not necessarily because it’s…
United has now matched some increases Delta put in place recently for checked baggage fees. On most trans-Atlantic flights, passengers will pay $100 to check a second bag, up from $70. The first bag is free as long as it’s not oversized or overweight….
Earlier in the year I carved out my goals for 2012. Since I just finished re-qualifying for Hyatt Diamond, now seemed like a good time to do a bit of homework to see if I was on track. We’re not quite to the halfway…
It’s all non-union people at this point, but AA has started to trim management and support staff. The bankruptcy judge still has yet to rule on whether AA can terminate it’s union contracts. But, if AA believes they are bloated in the management ranks,…
I use a service called Expert Flyer that helps me find award inventory, among other things. It’s a pretty useful tool, as it searches the airline’s systems for a number of different useful pieces of info. It seems AA is continuing to make changes…
Suzanne Rubin, the President of AAdvantage, is going to be answering questions live on Milepoint at 9pm EDT/8pm CDT/6pm PDT. There aren’t many opportunities for us normal folk to ask questions of people that run massive programs like AAdvantage. I’ve had the good fortune…
American just announced another mileage “sale”. This mileage sale isn’t as good as their last offer from about 45 days ago, when they offered both this same 30% bonus plus a 15% discount on the price. The price on the current offering is about 2.4 cents…
I’m not sure why the folks over at US Airways feel the need to keep giving sound bites. They started out sounding somewhat level-headed, but this recent article goes even further towards crazy. Scott Kirby, the president of US Airways, says that a merger…