Court Threatens Jail Time and Fines for Publicizing Airline Mistake Fares and more...
Of course we all love it when mistake fares happen and they're honored and we get to travel the world at insanely cheap prices, especially in business or first class. For some readers booking a $28 ticket to Paris presents a moral challenge: should ...
Of course we all love it when mistake fares happen and they're honored and we get to travel the world at insanely cheap prices, especially in business or first class.
For some readers booking a $28 ticket to Paris presents a moral challenge: should you take advantage of something you know is a mistake? My own view is that I'm happy to book it, airlines will choose to honor it or they won't, but if they're going to fly people to Paris for $28 I'd like to be one of those people.
It turns out at the same time that American is also ordering 15 Embraer E175 76 seat regional jets. That's on top of the 10 of these planes they ordered in the fall. So American remains committed to two separate fleets of 76 seat regional jets.
On July 7 of last year Air Canada Flight 759 from Toronto to San Francisco was cleared to land on runway 28L. It lined up to land on taxiway C instead, which had four planes on it waiting for take off.
The NTSB released security camera footage of the Air Canada Airbus A320 about to touch down on the taxiway.
Last month American placed an order for 47 Boeing 787s.
And now the world's largest airline has made a deal to buy 15 Bombardier CRJ-900s with options for 15 more. These would add to American's already substantial fleet of CR9s.
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Qatar Airways is the largest owner of IAG, parent company of British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, and Vueling. When british Airways was confronted with strikes Qatar lent Airbus narrowbodies with their much better product, to the surprise and delight of BA customers used to a lesser product.
Qatar says they may come to BA's rescue again as work is done on the Heathrow-based carriers Boeing 787s due to issues with the Rolls Royce engines on the aircraft type.
A woman admits to saying something nasty to an American Airlines call center agent.
She left items on a plane, and was hoping to talk to someone at the airport, but was frustrated by the agent on the phone directing her to file a claim online ("I did say a not nice thing to him as I was hanging up the phone.")
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