News and notes from around the interweb:
- On June 2 United will move into the new Terminal B Eastern Concourse at New York-LaGuardia Airport, and will open their new airside United Club.
Terminal B..features ceilings up to 55′ high and plenty of natural light with thirteen new shops and restaurants. Experience firsthand the brand-new post security club with its sweeping views of the tarmac, located directly above the gate level.
- United flight 93 passenger phone calls to loved ones revealed in new book (HT: Tommy L)
- We’ll start to see a lot more micro-targeted offers – offers that are actually relevant – as loyalty programs move from data pulls to Ai
- I suggested on Marketplace that offering free wifi could help drive Delta’s revenue premium, I’d further note that Delta’s checked bag fees are down even as their revenue is up. Unbundling was once the industry buzz word, now we’re back to driving profits by bundling.
- When you’re an executive at the Guam Visitors Bureau going off on a Facebook rant against United is a bad idea. United’s head of Asia is on the Visitors Bureau board. Guam’s governor has weighed in.
- Kuwait Airways won’t carry Israeli passengers. That’s forced them to abandon fifth freedom flights like New York JFK – London Heathrow because of anti-discrimination rules. They’ve continued to fly out of New York, though, because for their New York JFK – Kuwait City flight they’re just enforcing Kuwait’s laws which wouldn’t permit Israeli passengers to enter the country.
Now Germany will look at whether the airline’s rules break their own laws even in the case of passengers seeking to connect through Kuwait City and travel onward.
Is a guy looking at a graph on a monitor what you think AI is?
@WR2: LOL.
Why does Kuwait need to ban Isreali’s? Wouldn’t the Isreali just fly a non-Kuwait airline since they wouldn’t be welcomed?
I avoid Mexico, not because I dont like their citizens, but because I dont trust their legal system. Mexico does not need to ban me, and Kuwait Air doesn’t need to ban Isrealis.
But if KA cant figure that out, what else are they missing? I will fly elsewhere in case they mistake me with an Israeli mid-flight and immediatly deplane me… without a parachute. Am I too paranoid?
@WR2,
That dude looking at the monitor is obviously an android (the robot kind, not the phone kind). 🙂
Alvarez may have been an idiot to publicly blast United on Facebook but he’s not wrong. Continental Micronesia was its own separate entity before the Continental merger with United (or takeover if you prefer). Now there is no separate Micronesian entity…it’s all United…controlled out of Chicago. The last time I flew them I got stuck on Guam for 24 hours because our flight was an hour late from Honolulu (on account of being slow to load cargo) and I missed my Palau connector (and passengers going on to Manila were similarly stuck). The desk agent who was working on our temporary accommodations said that Chicago has no clue about what goes on out there.
United cut Continental Micronesia service to Cairns from Guam. They cut the Yap-Palau leg which put a world of hurt on Yap tourism. They’ve retreated from Japan. They eliminated meal service on the 7+ hour Honolulu-Guam route. So seeing Alvarez blast United by pointing out how much better and more responsive Continental Micronesia was is not at all surprising to me. It was better.
Yeah get over 9/11 already.