Here’s a 35,000 foot view of travel news from around the Internet and a recap of my weekly posts… News Around the Interwebs It’s been a somewhat slow week in the points and miles world, but here were some of the highlights of the week that I saw pass through: Delta Free Flights for Displaced…
Sometimes, you reach your breaking point. My breaking point came in T2 at Sao Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport as I stared down the barrel of a ten-hour layover with no lounge access. This was after a schedule change and seating change on my outbound flight from JFK to Santiago the night before in an attempt to…
Snip, snip, snip…. This is apparently the week for US-based airlines to make all sorts of passenger un-friendly changes and cuts. While ultimately screwing over the passengers, the cuts are largely going to please investors on Wall Street. Just this week, Delta, United and JetBlue have announced some cuts that hurt the consumer, and in…
An analysis of United, Delta, and American’s saver-level business class award space on the premium JFK-LAX/SFO shows that both Delta and American are MUCH more generous with this premium award space, as it’s almost impossible to find space on United.
So I was finishing up work yesterday when a co-worker mentioned to me that there was severe weather expected to roll through the DC area on Thursday. Alarm bells immediately went off in my head as I was scheduled to fly from DCA to New York-JFK at around 12:30 on Thursday — the same time…