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Friday, March 30, 2018

Cathay Pacific Criticized for Waiving Change Fees So Passengers Can Vote and more...

Cathay Pacific is coming under criticism by Malaysia's deputy minister for home affairs and internal security. The airline is "offering free ticket changes for Malaysians returning home to vote." Malaysia is scheduling an election. The date ...

 

Cathay Pacific Criticized for Waiving Change Fees So Passengers Can Vote and more...



Cathay Pacific Criticized for Waiving Change Fees So Passengers Can Vote

Cathay Pacific is coming under criticism by Malaysia's deputy minister for home affairs and internal security.

The airline is "offering free ticket changes for Malaysians returning home to vote." Malaysia is scheduling an election. The date isn't yet known, but could come as soon as the end of April. Malaysia by the way just pushed through redistricting this month.

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How to Use Air France as a Strategic Points Transfer Partner

Air France KLM Flying Blue is a transfer partner of all the major bank transferrable points currencies.

Air France KLM gives members of their program access to far more business class award seats on Air France than partners like Delta and Alaska have access to.

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American Airlines Reveals Their Conjoined Triangles of Success

It's easy to look askance at corporate mission language, but I actually think that American's leadership has a pretty clear idea of where they're going and what's important to them. They're really transparent about it. You can agree or disagree with the strategy, or like or dislike it as a customer. But they aren't mealy mouthed about it at all.

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Leaked Audio: Airline CEO Wants to Put Passengers in the Cargo Hold

Economy class passengers are often derisively referred to as 'self-loading cargo'.

So perhaps the idea isn't entirely original, but in an off the record talk the CEO of Qantas says if there is a new class of service "Qantas is likely to be the airline that creates it."

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Cathay Pacific Flight Attendants Will Soon Be Allowed to Wear Pants

Cathay Pacific will give uniformed staff the option of wearing pants for the first time. This required extensive talks between the airline and its flight attendants union.

Clearly the role of the flight attendant has changed over time and societal attitudes have changed too. The very first airline flight attendant was hired by United Airlines as an onboard nurse. That persona morphed into a hypersexualized one....

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Delta Backs Off a Change Without Notice — But Only For Customers Paying Attention

Delta made some changes to the elite qualifying miles you earn flying Aeromexico effective for travel April 1 onward. And they made the change retroactive for customers who had already purchased tickets for future travel.

However if you know the secret handshake you can get them to honor the miles that were promised at the time of purchase.

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TSA Helps Criminal Illegal Immigrant Escape Deportation at New York JFK

An illegal immigration with several convictions for violent crimes escaped in a taxi at New York JFK this week as he was about to be deported.

TSA required ICE officials to remove his handcuffs. He ran off. And no one reported it to airport police for 45-90 minutes.

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