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Qantas

Qantas Will Operate New York To Sydney Nonstop On Friday

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 15, 2019November 14, 2023 8 Comments
Qantas New York Nonstop

Qantas will attempt to fly nonstop from New York to Sydney on Friday, a flight of nearly 20 hours. As Qantas continues to consider nonstop service from Sydney to London and New York, it still has many kinks to...

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Law In TravelLufthansa

Why Lufthansa Believes Upcoming Strike Is Illegal

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 15, 2019November 14, 2023 5 Comments
Lufthansa UFO

Despite a threatened strike on Sunday by flight attendants, Lufthansa has made clear that flights will operate normally. It has also insisted the planned strike is illegal. The true battle is over UFO recognition. For years, the Unabhängige Flugbegleiter...

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Air New ZealandNews

Walmart Boss Is New CEO Of Air New Zealand

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 14, 2019November 14, 2023 4 Comments
Air New Zealand CEO

What’s the difference between a discount retail chain and Air New Zealand? Not much, apparently, if Air New Zealand’s CEO is any indication. I say that jokingly, but only half-jokingly, for reasons I will explain below. But indeed, Air...

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Frequent Flyer

A Quixotic Plan To Ban Frequent Flyer Programs By Government Fiat

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 14, 2019October 14, 2019 11 Comments
Frequent Flyer Program Ban

Do frequent flyer programs encourage travelers to take more flights than they need to? Should the small subset of road warriors who take the majority of flights be taxed for their excessive flying? That’s what a government-sanctioned climate report...

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NewsTurkish Airlines

Protest Targets Turkish Airlines At SFO

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 14, 2019November 14, 2023 16 Comments
Turkish Airlines Protest

As Turkish tanks rolls deeper into northern Syrian, some Bay Area residents have used Turkish Airlines as a proxy for the Turkish government. Nearly 100 people showed up to the Turkish Airlines ticket counter at San Francisco International Airport...

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AeromexicoemiratesLaw In Travel

Emirates Plans to Defy Court Order In Mexico City

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 14, 2019November 14, 2023 6 Comments
Emirates Mexico Appeal

Despite a Mexican federal court ruling against Emirates, the Dubai-based airlines plans to move forward with planned flights to Mexico City via Barcelona. Emirates has tried to launch service to Mexico City for years. Due to the high altitude...

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American AirlinesNews

American Airlines Management Shuffle, The Emperor Has No Clothes

Kyle Stewart Posted onOctober 13, 2019September 14, 2021 33 Comments
American Airlines Dog Lawsuit

American Airlines announced a handful of senior leadership changes this week ahead of quarterly earnings reports at the end of the month. But few left or even changed departments, does Emperor Parker have new clothes? If you are considering booking...

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Is the Great American Airlines Elite Evacuation Underway?

Kyle Stewart Posted onOctober 13, 2019September 14, 2021 26 Comments
American Airlines 2020 Internatinal Strategy

Signs from United and Delta, combined with performance issues with American point to a possibility that elites are starting to leave American Airlines after the summer of discontent. If you are considering booking travel or signing up for a new credit card please...

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Review: Brand New Park Hyatt Shenzhen – Suite

Kyle Stewart Posted onOctober 13, 2019September 14, 2021 6 Comments
The Living Room

The brand new Park Hyatt Shenzhen perfects luxury high above southeastern China’s Silicon Valley. When given the opportunity to review the property, I couldn’t pass it up.  If you are considering booking travel or signing up for a new credit card please click...

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Law In Travel

Offensive T-Shirts And The Line Of Decency Onboard Airplanes

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 12, 2019November 14, 2023 45 Comments
Airline Offensive Clothing

Whether a t-shirt calling for the execution of journalists or using a choice expletive to describe the President of the United States, where should an airline draw the line in permissible onboard attire? A man boarded a United flight...

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LufthansaMeal of the Week

Japanese Lunch On A Lufthansa Breakfast Flight To Middle East…

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 12, 2019November 14, 2023 9 Comments
Lufthansa Japanese Breakfast

Each week, my Meal of the Week feature examines an airline meal from my travels over the years. This may be a meal from earlier in the week or it may be a meal served over a decade ago. The title...

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Alaska AirlinesNewsUnited Airlines

United Battles Alaska At LAX With New Route

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 12, 2019November 14, 2023 9 Comments
United Airlines LAX Anchorage

United Airlines is challenging Alaska Airlines in Los Angeles with new nonstop service to Anchorage, Alaska. Next summer, United Airlines will offer daily nonstop service between Los Angeles (LAX) and Anchorage (ANC). The service will be operated by a...

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NewsSWISS

SWISS Expands “Flugzug” Service

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 12, 2019November 14, 2023 3 Comments
Swiss Flugzug

With the demise of Adria leaving a gap in its domestic network, SWISS is expanding it Flugzug rail service to Lugano. In German, Flugzug is literally flight train, though SWISS translates it as Airtrain. When SWISS abandoned Basel (BSL), it...

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IraqMusingsTrip Reports

Part III: Heartfelt Conversations With Iraqi Kurds

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 11, 2019November 14, 2023 17 Comments
Kurds Conversations

As Turkish forces embark upon a massive offensive into Kurdish-controlled Northeast Syria, memories of my 2011 trip to Iraqi Kurdistan are in the front of my mind. > Part I: A Day Trip To Iraq > Part II: Exploring...

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TipsUnited Airlines

An Intriguing Upside To United’s Radical MileagePlus Changes

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 11, 2019November 14, 2023 47 Comments
MileagePlus Star Alliance Flight Earning

For those willing to invest the time, the changes to United MileagePlus actually may make it cheaper to qualify for top-tier status on United than it is now. But it will take some serious and creative mileage running… United...

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AnalysisUnited Airlines

Analysis: Fundamental Changes To United MileagePlus In 2020

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 11, 2019November 14, 2023 33 Comments
United MileagePlus 2020 Changes

Last night, United Airlines announced radical changes to the way elite status is earned in the MileagePlus program, starting in 2020. What do these changes mean for you? First, let’s review the changes. Introduction Of Premier Qualifying Flights (PQF)...

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United MileagePlus Announces 2020 Qualification Requirements

Kyle Stewart Posted onOctober 11, 2019September 14, 2021 99 Comments
United A320 at gate

United’s MileagePlus frequent flyer program is shaking up the way they track and award status in 2020 and it’s not all good news for loyalists. If you are considering booking travel or signing up for a new credit card please click here. Both support...

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Lufthansa

Lufthansa Sheepishly Scrambles To Locate Missing Cat

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 10, 2019November 14, 2023 11 Comments
Lufthansa Missing Cat

Milo is missing. Lufthansa says it is doings its best to find him. But how did he get lost in the first place? Last week, Molly McFadden travelled with her two cats, Milo and Beau, on Lufthansa from Munich...

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BoeingNews

Boeing Loses Large 787 Order

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 10, 2019November 14, 2023 16 Comments
Boeing 787 Production Cut

Aeroflot Russian Airlines has formally canceled its Boeing 787 order, further casting the future of Boeing’s Dreamliner program into uncertainty. Boeing ramped up production of the Dreamliner earlier this year from 12 to 14 aircraft per month at two...

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IraqTrip Reports

Part II: Exploring Erbil, The Capital Of Iraqi Kurdistan

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 10, 2019November 14, 2023 15 Comments
Exploring Erbil Kurdistan

As Turkish forces embark upon a massive offensive into Kurdish-controlled Northeast Syria, memories of my trip to Iraqi Kurdistan are in the front of my mind. >Part I: A Day Trip To Iraq If I showed you these pictures...

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