United Airlines may be the most beefy guy at the party, and the one who always arrives on-time.
But relative to its major peers, United is also the odd-man-out for one glaring reason: it is in the worst financial shape of all of the party attendees.
Even more ...
Alaska Airlines is offering new mileage plan members who are residence of California an opportunity to take $25 off their next flight! Just register for a new mileage plan account before October 21, 2013 and within 48 hours, new members will receive an email with a voucher code for $25 off their ...
In 2011, Alaska Air launched a special mileage plan for residence of Alaska known as Club 49. Club 49 comes with the added benefit of 2 free check bags when traveling to, from or within Alaska and a Travel Now voucher providing 30% off a full Y fare class for last minute travel. Now, ...
Lucky reports that one-way travel at half the round-trip price is now available online for Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan members. Rumors of this change in policy begin swirling last month but have not been confirmed up until this point by Alaska. American Airlines is the first (and only, for now) ...
Bonus Points Galore! Because I love free points or extra points, here are a few noteworthy promotions that are happening right now!
Virgin America
Until June 30, 2013 Elevate members can earn double or triple points on select flights on the west coast. Almost all west coast routes ...
In 2010, Delta unveiled its "keep climbing" campaign, designed to overhaul the customer experience on all of its flights following a merger with Northwest Airlines
The fiercely competitive transcontinental market between New York and Los Angeles/San Francisco is about ...
Early this month I got insider knowledge that Alaska Airline was expanding their footprint in the San Diego Market with new routes being Launched in 2013, which routes and new destinations was not disclosed to me, however, Alaska Air has finally announced them publically. I had initially guessed ...
Alaska and Delta have greatly expanded their partnership and frequent flyer cooperation and mutual benefits since Delta and NWA merged in 2008. However for the first time last week I received and upgrade to first class on Alaska using my Delta’s Gold Elite Status! Back when ...
Alaska has been extremely busy lately. They’ve announce a number of new routes in the last year (including PDX-DCA, SAN-MCO, SEA-STL, SEA-SAT and more),announced their largest Boeing plane order in history, exercised all outstanding options for their B737NG models and ordering another 37 ...
Five MD-11's are pictured in this photo taken at PDX in January, 1999
A few decades ago, Delta Air Lines operated a transpacific hub out of Portland International airport (PDX) in Portland, Oregon. I remember collecting Delta Sky magazines and published ...
I honestly think Alaska Airline has some of the best policies in place to help customers and frequent flyers when it comes to their frequent flyer program. Last month I wrote about how Alaska Airlines notified me about my funds expiring in my wallet and I was ecstatic that they gave me notice. ...
Delta Airlines has been growing in Seattle for a number of years and even pre-merger Seattle was an important focus city for NWA with a number of international flights. Before the merger, Northwest Airlines and Alaska Airlines had a strategic partnership in place in Seattle, allowing Northwest ...
Again and Again Alaska Airline has proven to be one of my favorite airlines bringing not only topnotch customer service to every flight, but doing things for passengers that other airlines do not. Being in the industry to make buck, I feel like airlines favorite thing to do is either let ...
If you haven’t heard yet there has been a number of posts on the internet and FlyerTalk about CHEAP fares to/from Hawaii! Cheap Fares in economy from the east coast have been reported for as little as $413 round trip! The fares are so cheap and so low that they are averaging out to between ...
No matter where I am flying, I won’t lie, I like to have a drink. Maybe it’s because I’ve been spoiled with 1st class since before I was 21 or because I just enjoy how much easier it is to get a buzz in the air, but when flying I enjoy a drink or two. However, when drink ...
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Emirates Airline of Dubai is in talks with American Airlines' parent company AMR Corp surrounding a partnership launch that will involve code-sharing on flights and reciprocal frequent flier benefits, according to FlightGlobal.com.
The two carriers have apparently ...
Delta Airlines has canceled serviced from Detroit to Tokyo Haneda as of Sept 30,2012 with little to no signs of resumption of this route or making the route seasonal from Detroit. In fact, Delta has not only canceled this route, but as of the 30th of July they have applied with the DOT to move ...
Starting last October, the Toilet Safety Administration Transportation "Security" Administration rolled out the Pre-Check program, which allows members of the various Trusted Traveler Programs (NEXUS, Global Entry, & SENTRI), as well as certain frequent fliers on Alaska, American, ...
The North satellite at SeaTac airport is dark, old, a bit stagnate feeling, and in need for a major renovation. Although the North satellite is nothing like Delta’s world port at JFK, it is 40 years old and outdated. However in the near future this will all be changing thanks to ...
There is definitely something interesting about Middle Eastern Carriers because they won a plethora of the Skytrak awards! Eithad has pulled the ol’ hockey player hat trick when it comes to First Class Awards at the Skytrax World Airline Awards 2012! Taking all 3 awards for first class ...
