Availability for the United Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner domestic schedule is loaded and LIVE! Upgrade space looks plentiful and my strategy paid off – the flights I booked today were indeed adjusted over correctly to the 787. Seat maps aren’t currently available, but I’d imagine those will plop in overnight. Who’s gonna be in Houston…
Monthly Archives
Monthly Archives for August 2012.
Notable Airline, Hotel and Travel Industry News: August 31, 2012
As widely reported, American Airlines and US Airways have entered into a non-disclosure agreement. It allows the two airlines to share confidential and financial information and evaluate their options for a merger. All will be hush hush until a transaction is agreed upon or talks are terminated. United Airlines pilots say contract talks have stalled…
American’s ‘Preferred Seat’ Allocation a Bit Excessive?
Besides booking a ride on the United 787 today, I’m also looking into future travels on American Airlines. Happily, I’m Executive Platinum due to their very generous status match of United 1Ks (I was Gold before the match). And while I enjoy complimentary access to American’s “Preferred Seats,†I never really paid attention until now…
Notable Airline, Hotel and Travel Industry News: August 30, 2012
A judge ruled American Airlines’ antitrust suit against Orbitz, Travelport and Sabre may proceed after finding reasonable grounds that the companies orchestrated a boycott of American. All parties, however, agreed for a stay as they seek renewed negotiations. Avis is dropping their “We Try Harder” slogan, used for 50 years, for “It’s Your Space.” They…
My Strategy for Booking a BusinessFirst 787 Seat Tomorrow
As everyone knows by now, United Airlines released the initial domestic schedule for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner yesterday. Beginning Saturday, you’ll be able to book a ride on one of the many 787 flights to/from Houston as follows: While none of the flights will be the true inaugural, I’ll definitely be on one of them…
Notable Airline, Hotel and Travel Industry News: August 29, 2012
United Airlines just released their domestic Boeing 787 Dreamliner schedule, according to this Flyertalk post. Looks like most hubs will see the Dreamliner in revenue service on November 4. If I’m not on the actual first revenue flight, you’ll certainly see me on at least one of the IAH-LAX-IAH segments the first day. The 10…
United’s Official Response to Yesterday’s Outage, Upcoming Webcast
As many of you know or experienced first-hand, United Airlines had an outage yesterday impacting SHARES. More than 500 flights were delayed and several cancelled. United’s official response to me at CNBC was: So much for “fully redundant.†To United’s credit, they did issue a travel waiver for all cities late yesterday. It’s gone now…
Notable Airline, Hotel and Travel Industry News: August 28, 2012
United Airlines had a major SHARES outage late this afternoon, bringing their website down and halting operations at some airports. United is apparently offering a travel waiver for impacted customers, but as of this posting, no link has been posted online. [Edited (thanks Kris): The waiver is now posted.] In other not-so-good United news, a…
The Funniest Thing About United’s Outage Today…
If you’re not following @FakeUnitedJeff on Twitter, you need to. Case in point is his exchange with American Airlines (and others) following the SHARES outage at United Airlines today. Kudos to American’s social media team for participating. Related posts: An Interview With American’s Social Media Team United Airlines Retweeted WHAT? Being Schooled on United’s Complimentary…
Being Schooled on United’s Complimentary Premier Upgrades
Keeping up-to-speed with how United’s reservation system processes Complimentary Premier Upgrades (CPUs) can be a daunting task. The vast majority of my flying on United Airlines this year came before the system conversion to SHARES on March 3. And all of my United flights since that date have been upgraded through other means – Regional…