Live and Let’s Fly
A Call To Action For Airline Passengers
Last week, Matthew wrote about an American Airlines flight on which in the midst of an emergency evacuation there were multiple passengers refusing to follow crew commands. In recent years, society has tended to focus an increasing amount of attention on the rights of individuals while ignoring the impacts of...
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
Frontier Airlines Boots Medical Student From Flight and Threatens to Have Her Arrested to Make Room For Crew Members
Frontier Airlines has been accused of booting a medical student from a flight under threat of arrest to make room for a ‘dead-heading’ flight attendant after she had already boarded the plane in an episode that is reminiscent of the infamous Dr David Dao incident. The latest incident took place...
Sam Chui
Photo Report: Qatar Airways Unveils Next-Gen QSuite
At Farnborough Airshow 2024, Qatar Airways revealed the Next-Gen QSuite. Here are the pictures from the mockup display. The suite on the side can now form a double suite facing each other by pushing the TV panel aside. The seat is 1.5 inches wider upright and 4 inches wider in...
One Mile at a Time
Swoon: New Qatar Airways “Qsuite Next Gen” Business Class
Qatar Airways is known for its Qsuites business class. This is one of the world’s best business class experiences, between an excellent soft and hard product. Roughly seven years after the product was introduced, it’s available on most long haul aircraft, but not all.
View from the Wing
Delta’s Historic Meltdown: Misleading Excuses Leave Passengers Stranded – Avoid at All Costs
It is clear that you do not want to be a Delta customer even today, which hopefully will be better than the past three days. As of 6 a.m. Eastern the carrier has ‘only’ scrubbed 15% of its flights while American is at 1% and United 0%.
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Frequent Floaters
Report: Deck Chair Accident Results in Guests Finger Amputation on MSC Grandiosa
This is a disturbing reminder that a cruise ship, while an amazing place to vacation, has many hazards we must be aware of and you can get seriously injured even while the ship is docked. Crew-center.com today posted that a A 61-year-old Dutch passenger stayed on the ship to lounge...
Live from a Lounge
Air India’s A350-900 to fly to New York as its first ultra long-haul destination
Air India's first ultra-long-haul international destination with the A350-900 aircraft will be New York. Flights to JFK with the A350 will go live on November 1, 2024. Flights to EWR will follow on January 2, 2025.
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One Mile at a Time
Air India A350 Flying International Routes, To Dubai, London, New York
Air India is in the process of reinventing itself,after being privatized. This is quite a project, and part of this includes taking delivery of 470 new aircraft over the coming years, in order to modernize the fleet.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
Delta Air’s Operational Meltdown Enters its Fourth Straight Day as Carrier Struggles to Track Down Flight Attendants
Delta Air Lines entered its fourth straight day of mass cancellations and delays on Monday after CEO Ed Bastian admitted that the Atlanta-based carrier was struggling to track down its flight attendants and get them where they were needed to operate flights. As of 7 a.m. ET on July 22,...
One Mile at a Time
Terrifying: Southwest 737 Descends To 150 Feet Above Tampa Bay
Southwest Airlines can’t seem to stay out of the news lately when it comes to concerning safety incidents. A couple of days ago I first wrote about yet another near catastrophe, which might just be the scariest one we’ve seen so far. I wanted to provide an update, as I...
Eye of the Flyer
Recent Events Remind Me Why I’m So Grateful to Have Travel Insurance
It’s been kind of a crazy summer for air travel. Flights late last week were disrupted (that’s putting it mildly) by an ill-fated software update. There’s also been all kinds of crazy weather causing flights to divert — and not continue until the next day. I also see and hear...
TravelUpdate
Review: Room2 Hotel in Belfast – or I should say “hometel”, right?
For this visit to Belfast, I looked around for a pleasant place to stay. I happened across Room2, which suited what I wanted for both the location and price I wanted to pay. The website bills the place as a “hometel”, meaning rooms have facilities such as a full kitchen,...
Traveling For Miles
A look inside the Marriott Bonvoy suite at London’s O2 arena
Marriott Bonvoy Moments is the successor to SPG Moments and is a program that allows Marriott Bonvoy members to spend their points on sports, concerts, and experiences at various arenas around the world and, in some circumstances, these can offer Bonvoy members a good alternative use for their points.
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Miles For Family
Not Booking Any Shore Excursions on Our Alaska Cruise: What We Did Instead
This is the last post in my Alaska cruise series. See my previous posts Back from Alaska cruise on Princess: Watching glaciers and getting fancy, Hyatt Regency Lake Washington: a great option for a short layover in Seattle area and What I liked and disliked about Discovery Princess ship Since we...
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
Korean Air Confirms Order For Boeing 777X and Up To Thirty 787-10 Dreamliners On First Day of Farnborough Air Show
Korean Air has confirmed that it will become the latest customer for Boeing’s much-delayed 777X widebody aircraft on Monday, the first day of the Farnborough Air Show in England. The order had been anticipated last month, but on Monday, Boeing was finally able to confirm that Korean Air had placed...
Frequent Miler
Best Uses of Capital One Miles
Capital One Miles have become a premier transferable currency system over the past several years. In addition to being able to use them to cover travel charges with points, Capital One allows 1:1 transfers to a range of valuable airline and hotel partners. Miles can be earned via credit card...
Live and Let’s Fly
Delta Air Lines Operational Meltdown Enters Fourth Day
Operations remain in meltdown mode at Delta Air Lines, with over 500 flights already canceled this morning after a rough weekend that included thousands of delays and cancellations impacting over 80% of flights. The carrier has been unique among its peers in being unable to recover from the global IT...
One Mile at a Time
Delta Has Operational Meltdown, Thousands Of Flights Cancelled
Early Friday morning, we saw a major global IT outage, impacting all kinds of industries, including many airlines. In the United States, all of the ”big three” US carriers — American, Delta, and United — were impacted by this.
One Mile at a Time
Air India A350 Flying International Routes, To Dubai, London, New York
Air India is in the process of reinventing itself,after being privatized. This is quite a project, and part of this includes taking delivery of 470 new aircraft over the coming years, in order to modernize the fleet.
2PAXfly
VIRGIN AUSTRALIA: Cancels Cairns to Tokyo route 2025
Australia’s Virgin was criticised from the start for using a single-aisle Boeing 737-800 aircraft on this route when it commenced in June 2023. I’m not sure I would be happy on a 7-hour route on a single-aisle aircraft. Mind you I did briefly contemplate a 7-hour route on one with...
One Mile at a Time
Today Only: Up To 5x Bonus Miles On Apple Purchases
Online shopping portals can be a great way to pick up additional miles and points for purchases youd make anyway. Just for following a specific link, you can earn bonus points in addition to the ones youd earn for credit card spending. Whenever I make an online purchase, I always...
Frequent Miler
More Easy Rewards: Fee-free Visa Gift Cards at Staples (now live)
On the heels of this week’s fee-free Mastercard gift cards, Staples is offering fee-free fixed $200 Visa Gift Cards through July 27, 2024. The limit is again eight per customer per day (although some stores may allow more). Different stores appear to have different policies regarding the variable-load cards that...
The Gate with Brian Cohen
Visiting the Location Where World War I Started
Visiting the location where World War I started was something that I never thought about doing — but I found that one incident triggered a series of incidents in a complicated conflict to be fascinating.
The incident that ultimately led to World War I occurred...
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Frequent Miler
Citi ThankYou Points: 25% transfer bonus to Air France / KLM Flying Blue
In addition to launching a 20% transfer bonus to Wyndham today, Citi is also offering a 25% sweetener when you move ThankYou Points to Air France/KLM Flying Blue. The Deal Get a 25% bonus when transferring Citi ThankYou points to Air France/KLM Flying Blue. Key Terms Expires August 17, 2025...
Frequent Miler
Citi ThankYou Points: 20% Transfer Bonus to Wyndham Rewards
Citi is offering a 20% bonus when you transfer ThankYou points to Wyndham Rewards. We’ve written extensively over the last couple years about how much we love Wyndham Rewards points, primarily because of their partnership with Vacasa Vacation Rentals. You can use them to stay at some incredible properties for...
