News and notes from around the interweb: Aeroplan had a huge award pricing opportunity where they were giving members international business and first class award tickets for the same miles as a domestic award. The first thing they did when they decided to put an end to this offer was take down the ‘multi city […]
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Earlier today I wrote about new American Airlines international routes. New York JFK – Birmingham and Edinburgh in the UK and Miami – Frankfurt. They’re also launching a second Los Angeles – London flight at the end of March. One Mile at a Time wrote about the routes as well and comes off surprised at […]
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Greetings from sunny Tampa! I've been in Florida the past week visiting my parents and recovering from an exhausting month of travel. I'm leaving tomorrow for a quick trip to Europe, but otherwise have nothing major before I leave on my dad's birthday trip. So you can continue to expect daily trip reports as I work through the backlog.
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As y'all know I'm primarily an American Airlines flyer, and one of my favorite things about flying them the past couple of years has been all of the new hires. They've hired thousands of flight attendants over the past few years, to the point that roughly a quarter of all American flight attendants are now new hires.
Let me be clear -- I'm not claiming that all senior flight attendants suck and that all new hires are great. That's not at all the truth. But there's no denying that on average the new hires are more enthusiastic, if nothing else (of course that often comes at the expense of being polished/experienced).
And some of them are cute/age appropriate, but that's a different story...
Anyway, that's not the point of this post.
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Southwest acquired AirTran, and it’s been a long time in process but finally the A+ Rewards program closes down today. Many folks have already linked their accounts and transferred points. Those that didn’t have their points automatically moved over to the Rapid Rewards program. No doubt at the margins there will be some confusion, folks […]
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It looks like Air France and KLM's FlyingBlue program is getting into the business of selling miles. Admittedly not quite at the lucrative rates of other programs, but it's at least worth mentioning.
Through December 31, 2014, FlyingBlue is offering a 25-50% bonus on purchased FlyingBlue miles:
-- If you purchase fewer than 40,000 miles, you receive a 25% bonus
-- If you purchase 40,000 or more miles, you receive a 50% bonus
Best I can tell, you can purchase a maximum of 74,000 FlyingBlue miles during the promotion period, which doesn't factor in the bonus miles (for a total of 111,000 FlyingBlue miles)
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Christopher Elliott writes about a girl flying on Sun Country to and from Los Angeles. in both directions see what seated near a passenger traveling with a dog. The young girl “suffers from pet allergies.” She apparently didn’t say anything on the outbound flight, and suffered from her allergies. She spoke up to the flight […]
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American has announced four new flights to Europe that will launch in 2015, whereby we're seeing an additional frequency on an existing route, a new route to an existing destination, and two new destinations altogether (at least as far as American "metal" goes).
According to airlineroute.net, reservations for these flights are expected to open tomorrow, Sunday, November 2, 2014.
Let's start with the news we already knew, as I wrote about this new route on Thursday.
American will commence a second daily Los Angeles to London Heathrow Boeing 777-300ER flight as of March 28, 2015, with the following schedule:
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