Posted in Airlines, Flight Attendants, Passengers, Travel Woes, tagged American Airlines, Cashess Cabin, Credit Cards on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Starting June 1st 2009, American Airlines will go cashless for all its domestic flights and flight to/from Hawaii, Alaska and Canada.
American Airlines (like other airlines) offers the following for sale -
headsets
meals
snacks
alcoholic beverages
“We believe that, by moving to a cashless
cabin, the transaction process is more convenient for both our
customers and flight attendants,” said Lauri Curtis, [...]
Posted in Airlines, Safety, tagged 767, American Airlines, Boeing 767, FAA, Flight 1549, Raft, Restriction, Self Check on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
American Airlines today announced that after reviewing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) policy on raft capacity (which mentions that the rafts on the plane should accommodate for all passengers, crew and lap children), they found that the Boeing 767 fleet was not following the policy. So, temporarily all flights using the plane will be restricted [...]
Posted in Airlines, Pilots, tagged Alliance, Allied Pilots Association, American Airlines, Antitrust Immunity, Bilboards, British Airways, DFW, London Heathrow, Pilots, Richard Branson, Unions, Virgin Atlantic on November 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Allied Pilots Association (American Airlines’ Pilots Association) has been vocal about their opposition to the proposed American Airlines and British Airways alliance. Recently, they have put on billboards around the Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) Airport to display their opposition.
The application is – “BA and AA have applied to regulators in the United States and Europe [...]
Posted in Airlines, Airports, Passengers, Travel Woes, tagged American Airlines, DeRiso Funeral Home, Equador, Grief, GUA, Guatemala, Guayaquil, GYE, Miguel Olaya, Missing Body, Missing Coffin, Teresa Olaya, Wrong Code on September 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
On April 1st 2008, Miguel Olaya, a 60 year old New York resident, hired DeRiso Funeral Home, a Brooklyn funeral home, to ship his late wife’s body (Teresa Olaya who died of pelvic cancer at age 57) to Guayaquil, Ecuador for burial. Miguel arrived at the airport to find out that the coffin was missing [...]
Posted in Airlines, Passengers, tagged Agreement, American Airlines, British Airways, DOT, Iberia, Immunity, Monster Monopoly, OneWorld, Open Skies, Spain, UK, US on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
American Airlines, British Airways and Iberia announced today that they have signed “a commercial agreement to cooperate over flights between North America and Europe to help overcome soaring fuel costs”. The tie is also supposed to benefit for the open skies agreement between Europe and US.
Also, as a part of the new agreement all the [...]
Posted in Airlines, Passengers, tagged active service members, American Airlines, Excess Luggage, false allegation, Free, legacy airlines, Military, Third Bag, uproar, Waived on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
American Airlines had the policy of waiving the first two bags for active service matters and charge $100 for the third (which was reimbursable). There was a big uproar over the charge, causing the airlines to waive the $100 charge as well. It all started with a false allegation in an article that the airline [...]
Posted in Airlines, Passengers, tagged Alliance, American Airlines, British Airways, Continental Airlines, Delta Air, Larry Kellner, Northwest Airlines, Star Alliance, US Airways on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Continental Airlines has been in talks with American Airlines and British Airways to join their Oneworld alliance, but instead announced that it will join the Star Alliance (with United Airlines and US Airways).
Continental had to change its alliance from SkyTeam due to Delta and Northwest Merger Announcement.
From Dallas News -
Continental’s
plan to partner with United [...]
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