Memphis open for business despite flooding, Peace in the BA sky between flight attendants and the airline? Qantas/AA joint venture requested from DOT
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AA
While you have been the CEO, your company finished last among its peers. It was the only company of the group that managed to lose money ($471 million) while the rest of the industry made millions. Your airline has gone from the largest in the world to the third-largest. Your stock price dramatically underperformed the industry during the past year. Your labor relations are rocky. Why not give yourself a raise?
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We take a look at the news. In Washington, DC, an annual Easter tradition, the Peeps Diorama sponsored by the Washington Post comes up with a fascinating TSA scene. BA and its flight attendant union agree not to strike, for the time being. And AA claims noting was wrong that made passengers and crew members faint and sparked an emergency landing. It must have been aliens.
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In a twist worthy of a bad comedy, American Airlines (AA) that refused to do business with Orbitz and forbade the online agency from selling their product, is suing the online agency for excluding them. Are you shaking your head? I am too.
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While the focus has been on Southwest for the dramatic fuselage rupture over the weekend, United had even a more threatening, if less dramatic and without video, problem with a loss of instrumentation and AA had three back-to-back-to-back incidents that even make me pause.
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We take a look at stories that shape travel. American Airlines flight attendants have been told that a strike will probably not happen due to the economy and the weak state of AA. Independent airline find a way to thrive without belonging to alliances. Finely, an air traffic controller admits to sleeping while on duty in DC.
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About half an hour into the redeye flight from Maui to Los Angeles last Wednesday, the cabin lights abruptly flashed on. But that didn’t wake me up. It was the captain’s announcement that jarred me to alertness. “We have a fire in the forward galley.”
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We take a look at the effects of the antitrust immunity grant to AA and BA/IB. The joint venture will start a virtual shuttle between the US and UK. The Japanese earthquake effect start to affect US aircraft production, already. Finally, EU regulators don’t follow the FAA in ordering removal of oxygen generators from airplane bathrooms.
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These past few days, the hidden fees issue that have been hotly debated in Washington got some headlines and attention from the Department of Transportation. American Airlines (AA) became the first airline to be fined for hiding fees. Furthermore, upon looking into the fees that AA was assessing to use denied boarding compensation vouchers, DOT discovered that AA was adding severe restrictions to these coupons.
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If you want to redeem frequent flier miles, there’s a fee. If you want to redeem them faster, there’s a fee. And if you want to put the miles back into your account, there’s a fee, too. But here’s where the avaricious nature of these redemption fees clashes with cold, hard logic.
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