News and notes from around the interweb:
- Not new, but @gschaer shares this Avianca concert in the sky that’s worth a view.
- You think that I give Delta a hard time? American’s filing seeking Delta’s near-dormant Tokyo-Haneda slot does me one better.
- A flight attendants union wants to force the federal government to reinstate the electronics ban during takeoff and landing. They say people don’t pay attention to the safety video, becuase you know, they always used to. (Well, maybe they did for Safety in Paradise.)
- United is offering 30% off purchased miles through October 20. Not nearly a good enough deal to make me a buyer.
- You can also get 1 Marriott point for every 3 United miles you buy at full price. This is an even worse deal.
- Credit card fraud alert gets man thrown in jail. (HT: Reid F.)
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Gary,
I read the piece on credit card fraud getting a man thrown in jail, and go figure, there was the obligatory “we blocked the transaction for your protection” mumbo jumbo.
When will the banks stop lying to us? Blocking a charge is not for my protection, it’s theirs. All it does is inconvenience me… or get me thrown in jail apparently. If a fraudulent charges makes it through, I call them up and get it reversed. I’ve never had a fraud charge stick.
Banks: Please stop with the BS.
CrankyFlier’s analysis of AA vs. DL is off the mark, because he’s missing a crucial piece of the analysis
While I have no clue how AA would perform on a LAX-HND route, you can’t say that it would fail just because Delta’s service is failing
DL has few Skyteam connections at HND. So almost all their fliers would have to be O&D. AA on the other hand has a OW partner hubbed there who can provide a ton of feeder traffic to the major Asian cities and tons of connections intra-Japan (to make no mention of AA being able to provide more feed to LAX than DL)
Without knowing much about AA’s failures on the JFK-HND route, I suspect they believe between the LAX flight being a more convenient time, combined with JAL’s fast-growing presence at HND, the circumstances are very different than AA JFK-HND or DL LAX-HND