Delta Air Lines on Thursday announced a deal to buy a 20% stake in LATAM Airlines Group for $1.9 billion. The proposed partnership with LATAM Airlines represents Delta Air Lines’s largest investment in a foreign carrier and is a competitive strike against American Airlines in Latin America. The Delta deal In recent years, Delta has […]
British Airways canceled all of its flights Monday and Tuesday, nearly 1,700, after most of its pilots refused to go to work over a contract dispute. The pilots’ labor union had rejected a proposed 11.5 percent raise over three years. British pilots lose flight benefits British Airways has just cut flight benefits for pilots for […]
British Airways pilots began a two-day strike on Monday, grounding nearly all of its flights and disrupting thousands of passengers in a dispute over how much pay they receive. Tens of thousands of passengers have been told not to go to airports, with the airline canceling some 1,700 flights due to the disruption. British Airways […]
On Thursday, September 6th an American Airlines mechanic was arrested, and he’ll have his first appearance in court today. Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, the mechanic, is charged with “willfully damaging, destroying or disabling an aircraft.” What happened? The mechanic allegedly attempted to disable a navigation system on a plane that was about to carry about […]
I just spent two weeks in Lima; here is what I learned about Peru: It has strong tourism Peru is no longer off the beaten path; major destinations such as Machu Picchu have become mainstream now and are required itineraries for everyone before retirement. There’s long-term stability Peru is a country where people invest long-term […]
– Norwegian is showing off how profoundly they have changed the trans-Atlantic business of air travel already Passenger growth, more new aircraft and high load factors characterised 2016. The company carried almost 30 million passengers in 2016, 3.6 million more than the previous year. The company took delivery of 21 brand new aircraft and launched […]
– the AAdvantage shopping portal offers 15 miles on 15 stores just today – Bose and Neiman Marcus strike me as the best plays – there is a Quora thread discussing the world’s most boring country to be at (for more than a few days) So far the most boring countries are Switzerland, Saudi Arabia […]
– Expedia is back with their CyberMonday promotion – it features up to 90% off but you need to really watch those hourly codes (they disappear after a few minutes), it is quite some hassle – Club Carlson has another 30% off code CYBERDAY for stays until March 31, 17 (HT Frequent Flyer Bonuses ) […]
– a talented Reddit reader has found all those finicky American Express Incognito offers – but as a direct link – all you need to do is open it in INCOGNITO mode There are a number of links none of us ever heard of but the 100,000 American Express Platinum card link is most impressive […]
This was my second visit to Vietnam; after Saigon a few years ago, I spent time in Hanoi this time. Here is what I learned. It’s all about the people The Northern Vietnamese strike me as an exceptionally stubborn but courteous and somewhat curious people. After such a long period of communist reign you expect people […]