United Airlines today announced a double elite qualifying mile offer for California and Illinois residents only. Details are as follows and I deliberately cut & pasted this from United’s website in the interest of time (and my employer’s pardon)! Registration is required here. For what it’s worth, the cheapest W-fare roundtrip LAX-ORD is $339.40 all-in…
Monthly Archives
Monthly Archives for November 2011.
Involuntary Denied Boarding compensation explained
On August 23, 2011, new passenger protections were introduced, one of which increased the amount of involuntary denied boarding (IDB) compensation. A question was posed during last weekend’s Chicago Frequent Flyer Seminars as to the exact calculation, so I thought I’d go through two examples. First, the new rules are as follows: Domestic flights within…
Vintage Airline Seat Map: Eastern Airlines Airbus A300 B2 (Air-Shuttle)
Eastern Airlines pioneered the air shuttle concept in 1961 with hourly service from New York’s La Guardia airport to both Washington National and Boston. It was operated with Lockheed Constellations way back then and eventually included widebodies at peak times in the 1980s. In 1989, Donald Trump bought the Air-Shuttle service and operated it for…
Video: LOT Boeing 767 textbook belly landing – Perfect!
In case you haven’t seen it yet, here’s a video of the LOT Polish Airlines Boeing 767 making a textbook belly landing today at Warsaw Airport. Now THAT is how to land without gear! Well done, LOT pilots.
Upgraded, downgraded and well compensated yesterday flying United Airlines
I flew back to Los Angeles from the Chicago Seminars yesterday and encountered what ended up being a fun screw up on United Airlines’ part. The agent working the first flight began boarding as usual and I was about the sixth or seventh person scanned and made my way onto the jetway. The flight attendant…