For the past several days, there's been a lot of chatter on the interwebs about a suggestion (which seems to have really taken off with this HuffPost article by Rabbi Jason Miller) that people boycott put pressure on Delta because "Delta will add Saudi Arabian Airlines to its SkyTeam Alliance of partnering companies and would require Delta to ban Jews and holders of Israeli passports from boarding flights to Saudi Arabia." My colleagues on UPGRD.com, Matthew and Hunter, have offered ...

For the past several days, there's been a lot of chatter on the interwebs about a suggestion (which seems to have really taken off with this HuffPost article by Rabbi Jason Miller) that people boycott put pressure on Delta because "Delta will add Saudi Arabian Airlines to its SkyTeam Alliance of partnering companies and would require Delta to ban Jews and holders of Israeli passports from boarding flights to Saudi Arabia." My colleagues on UPGRD.com, Matthew and Hunter, have offered ...

A few days ago, Delta offered triple miles (elite qualifying and redeemable) for flights between New York (LGA) and Boston (BOS), Washington D.C. (DCA) or Chicago (ORD). At the time, I begged other airlines to match.

Well, AA matched.

Delta's offering triple RDMs and MQMs for flights between ORD and BOS. Link. 

After weeks of back-and-forth haggling and the like, the Daily Yomiuri newspaper announced today (tomorrow?) that Japan Airlines (JAL) is leaving the Oneworld Alliance and entering into a relationship with Delta.

I'm trying to pack and get ready for a flight tomorrow, and I'm not someone who knows much about the dollars-and-cents side of the airline business. (My expertise is fast becoming airline food, not the intiricacies of route networks and code-sharing agreements.) So those ...

Recently, I've been asking myself, "What kind of professional behavior should we expect from pilots?"

My wife, who is in her sixth-and-thank-God-last year of rabbinical school, is writing her thesis on the role of the rabbi. One of her big questions relates to the degree to which clergy — and their families — are held to a higher standard. It certainly makes sense that members of churches, mosques and synagogues might expect their religious leaders to live ...