American Airlines announced last month that they're ending their Chicago - Beijing flight in October. American's Vice President - Planning Vasu Raja told employees in Chicago last week at a question and answer session that Chicago flights to Asia are ...

After Dropping Chicago – Beijing, American Airlines Considers Ending All Chicago – Asia Flying and more...  In This Issue...  After Dropping Chicago – Beijing, American Airlines Considers Ending All Chicago – Asia Flying  How American Airlines Handled One Flight Yesterday With Undocumented Children Onboard  American Says They Need More Premium Seats – So They’re Getting Rid of Premium Seats  Barclays Adds Aeroplan as Points Transfer Partner  Austin Will Become a Delta Focus City (Mini-Hub)  Department of Homeland Security Blasts American, United for Not Wanting to Transport Kids Separated from Families  AAdvantage President Shares Her Take on Award Availability, Premium Economy Upgrades and Inflight Credit Card Pitches  Unaccompanied Minor Flying Seems to Be Up From the US to Mexico  More Recent Articles This email contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. After Dropping Chicago – Beijing, American Airlines Considers Ending All Chicago – Asia Flying American Airlines announced last month that they're ending their Chicago - Beijing flight in October. American's Vice President - Planning Vasu Raja told employees in Chicago last week at a question and answer session that Chicago flights to Asia are mostly connecting traffic, that they rely on connections from cities with low fares and often their own non-stop flights to the same destinations, and that higher fuel costs make it even harder to sustain flights than before. Continue reading After Dropping Chicago – Beijing, American Airlines Considers Ending All Chicago – Asia Flying...          • Email to a friend • How American Airlines Handled One Flight Yesterday With Undocumented Children Onboard Yesterday a group of teenagers - who had entered the country on their own - were being escorted without parents onboard an American Airlines flight from McAllen, Texas to Dallas and onward to New York LaGuardia. Continue reading How American Airlines Handled One Flight Yesterday With Undocumented Children Onboard...          • Email to a friend • American Says They Need More Premium Seats – So They’re Getting Rid of Premium Seats American Airlines is predicting that British Airways will fly to more mid-sized US cities than they do today, and that American is going to increase the size of the planes they fly to London Heathrow. However despite complaining that there aren't enough premium seats flying Chicago - London, American currently plans to reduce the number of premium seats flying Chicago - London (and to reduce the number of premium seats on two major aircraft types they fly). Continue reading American Says They Need More Premium Seats – So They’re Getting Rid of Premium Seats...          • Email to a friend • Barclays Adds Aeroplan as Points Transfer Partner When Barclays launched the Arrival Premier World Elite Mastercard as the bank's first card with points that transfer to miles back in April I wrote "additional transfer partners are expected to follow." At the time I expected the first new partner to be Air Canada's Aeroplan, which is also an American Express Membership Rewards transfer partner and which allows most Star Alliance awards to be redeemed online. Continue reading Barclays Adds Aeroplan as Points Transfer Partner...          • Email to a friend • Austin Will Become a Delta Focus City (Mini-Hub) Delta listed a job for a sales associate on LinkedIn whose role would be to "develop relationships and ties in the Austin market with key community and industry organizations to support Delta's Focus City initiative." Continue reading Austin Will Become a Delta Focus City (Mini-Hub)...          • Email to a friend • Department of Homeland Security Blasts American, United for Not Wanting to Transport Kids Separated from Families Earlier today I wrote about flight attendants expressing concern over transporting kids who were being separated from their families as they're split up under immigration laws. Both American Airlines and United have expressed solidarity with their crew, which isn't surprising. The Department of Homeland Security has come out swinging against both airlines. Continue reading Department of Homeland Security Blasts American, United for Not Wanting to Transport Kids Separated from Families...          • Email to a friend • AAdvantage President Shares Her Take on Award Availability, Premium Economy Upgrades and Inflight Credit Card Pitches AAdvantage President Bridget Blaise-Shamai appeared on the latest American Airlines employee podcast Tell Me Why which is also uploaded on several public podcast hosting sites. She commented on Platinum Pro and ConciergeKey elite status changes, efforts to improve award availability, the future of upgrades into and awards for premium economy, and inflight credit card pitches. Continue reading AAdvantage President Shares Her Take on Award Availability, Premium Economy Upgrades and Inflight Credit Card Pitches...          • Email to a friend • Unaccompanied Minor Flying Seems to Be Up From the US to Mexico There's been a lot of chatter and possibly ill-informed speculation amongst Ameircan Airlines flight attendants about the number of unaccompanied minors being up on their US-Mexico flights. There's been some disagreement over whether this is the result of the federal government deporting children on American Airlines flights, or parents proactively sending their children out of the country out of fear they might be captured and held in separation from their families. Continue reading Unaccompanied Minor Flying Seems to Be Up From the US to Mexico...          • Email to a friend • More Recent Articles Final Week: 300,000 Points from 3 New Hilton Limited-Time Offers United is Eliminating Stroopwafels From Domestic Flights Opinions expressed here are author's alone, not those of any bank, credit card issuer, airline or hotel chain, and have not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any of these entities.     Safely Unsubscribe • Archives • Preferences • Contact • Subscribe • Privacy Email subscriptions powered by FeedBlitz, LLC • 365 Boston Post Rd, Suite 123 • Sudbury, MA 01776, USA