So I have been waiting for the other shoe to drop in the Alaska/Delta frenemies fight, and it has. An email from Alaska Airlines this morning spells out mileage accrual changes for elites flying on Alaska, and anyone flying on Delta. Elites on Alaska will be earning even more miles, which is awesome for us!…
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So I recently had some questions and posited some opinions in the Alaska vs. Delta frenemies shuffle that’s been going on the last few months – and I got some stuff wrong. But not only that, I got some prognostication wrong as well. So now I’m here to hopefully fix all that. First thing is,…
Read More →So there’s been a bunch of new developments along the lines of Alaska Airlines and their partner Delta. When Delta started expanding into Alaska’s territories, things got bad. Alaska started to retaliate, with some pretty bold moves into Salt Lake City, going from service just from Seattle to nearly every big airport in the West….
Read More →So everyone’s probably already heard about how Delta and Alaska – once great friends, have slowly been turning into enemies. And while they still are cordial to each other, the heat is getting turned up – but quick. Delta has decided to expand their West Coast presence with flights going from Alaska hubs Seattle and…
Read More →So it should be no secret to those that follow me on here or on Twitter that I primarily fly Alaska Airlines. I’ve been curious about the announced American/US Airways merger since day one – mostly because American is a partner with Alaska Airlines. Not as strong a partner as Delta, but still – a…
Read More →So American Airlines came out and said that, instead of looking at options after they emerge from bankruptcy, they may start to look at merger options now. Oh, the games that are just about to start… Everyone knows that US Airways is out to gobble up American, but what about the crap that America West went through…
Read More →For those of you that aren’t familiar, HRC stands for The Human Rights Campaign, which is the leading LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) rights organization. Okay, so you’re not part of the LGBT community. That’s fine. There’s 10% of the population that is, and there are people who will often choose organizations based on their…
Read More →This is disgusting. Because of the House GOP having a temper tantrum and shutting down the FAA, taxes of 7.5% were no longer able to be charged to tickets purchased from the airlines. And what did almost all of the airlines out there do? Increased their fares by 7.5%. That’s bullcrap. Bullcrap, wrong, nasty, short-sighted,…
Read More →Okay, so we all know that the airlines went fee-happy. They’ve collected $5.7 billion in fees, which is “keeping the industry afloat”. So you give them a bag to go in the cargo? Fork over $25 or so, please! But when they lose that bag? They apparently AREN’T automatically refunding those fees. I had no…
Read More →At least according to something the CEO just said. He wants Alaska Air Group to be independent while others consolidate themselves out of existence. I think it’ll happen, but there’s a catch. And that catch is, there isn’t an airline CEO with the gumption to try and out-size United Continental. Let me explain. Back when…
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