Air France strikes are rarely worth covering. On any given day of course there's a threat of a strike. They're French. That's what they do. While much of the Air France KLM business has performed well, though not as well as peers, mainline Air France ...

Police Pepper Spray Air France Employees and more...  In This Issue...  Police Pepper Spray Air France Employees  Support Dog Bites Kid on Southwest Flight  Lufthansa Flight Accidentally Reported it Was Being Hijacked and Free Credit Scores for Everyone  United Miles: 20% Award Discount to Four Awesome Places  The Media Is Biased Towards Fairness But There Aren’t Two Sides to This Story  American Discloses That Percentage of Seats Redeemed With Miles Fell — Again  Passengers Who Take Carry On Bags During an Evacuation Shouldn’t Be Fined  More Recent Articles Police Pepper Spray Air France Employees Air France strikes are rarely worth covering. On any given day of course there's a threat of a strike. They're French. That's what they do. While much of the Air France KLM business has performed well, though not as well as peers, mainline Air France managed just a 1% operating margin in the fourth quarter. That's despite holding labor costs constant. They have a revenue problem, and labor groups aren't happy that they don't have a cost problem too. Continue reading Police Pepper Spray Air France Employees...          • Email to a friend •   Support Dog Bites Kid on Southwest Flight Southwest Airlines downplays the incident saying that the dog's teeth "scraped a child's forehead as the young passenger approached the animal, causing a minor injury." Continue reading Support Dog Bites Kid on Southwest Flight...          • Email to a friend •   Lufthansa Flight Accidentally Reported it Was Being Hijacked and Free Credit Scores for Everyone A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips. Continue reading Lufthansa Flight Accidentally Reported it Was Being Hijacked and Free Credit Scores for Everyone...          • Email to a friend •   United Miles: 20% Award Discount to Four Awesome Places United is discounting roundtrip coach awards between the US and four destinations by 20%. Book by March 2nd and travel to Porto, Singapore or Sydney May 4 – June 17 and to Reykjavik May 23 – June 17. Continue reading United Miles: 20% Award Discount to Four Awesome Places...          • Email to a friend •   The Media Is Biased Towards Fairness But There Aren’t Two Sides to This Story Delta, American and United keep arguing that Emirates, Qatar, and Etihad accept government subsidies and that this violates the Open Skies treaties that the U.S. has signed with the UAE and Qatar. Only it doesn't violate those treaties. At all. Anyone that reads the treaties knows that. In the old Aaron Sorkin HBO series The Newsroom the cast makes an important point about journalism. The media is biased towards fairness and simply doesn't call a lie a lie. Continue reading The Media Is Biased Towards Fairness But There Aren’t Two Sides to This Story...          • Email to a friend •   American Discloses That Percentage of Seats Redeemed With Miles Fell — Again American used to share a ton of information about the financials of the AAdvantage program in their annual 10-K SEC filing. They stopped doing that last year. They no longer tell us how many members there are in the program, how many miles were issued, sold to third parties, and remain outstanding like they did up until two years ago. Nonetheless as a result of their newly filed 2017 SEC 10-K form we know that the percentage of American's seats occupied by award travelers dropped again in 2017, after a drop in 2016. When US Airways management took over there was clearly a new philosophy of not releasing award seats to customers. Continue reading American Discloses That Percentage of Seats Redeemed With Miles Fell — Again...          • Email to a friend •   Passengers Who Take Carry On Bags During an Evacuation Shouldn’t Be Fined Whenever there's an aircraft evacuation there are photos of passengers taking personal items out of the plane. Sometimes it's a purse or laptop bag from underneath their seat. Other times it's the rollaboard out of the overhead bin. Continue reading Passengers Who Take Carry On Bags During an Evacuation Shouldn’t Be Fined...          • Email to a friend •   More Recent Articles New Star Alliance Tools and Bonus Marriott Points American Will Start Charging for ViaSat Satellite Internet Next Month       Click here to safely unsubscribe from "View from the Wing." Click here to view mailing archives, here to change your preferences, or here to subscribe • Privacy Email subscriptions powered by FeedBlitz, LLC, 365 Boston Post Rd, Suite 123, Sudbury, MA 01776, USA.