A recent string of inflight safety emergencies has thrust United Airlines into the spotlight, leading some travelers to worry that the airline, and even commercial air travel in general, has perhaps become less safe. In early March, a United flight lost a rear tire during takeoff in San ...
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No, not any old credit cards. United's branded credit cards that make United rather more money than you might imagine. Now, oh downtrodden United passenger, you can look forward to your harassed, occasionally unmotivated flight attendant acting like your bank teller with...
As budget airlines try to recast themselves, major airlines are catering more to higher-paying travelers with premium ticketing options, which is reducing the proportion of seats in the cheapest category, industry analysts said. United, for example, offers five tiers of tickets ranging from basic e...
Those kind of numbers—and of course, some promotion of his own airline—led United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby to declare recently that low-cost carriers were using “a fundamentally flawed business model” and customers hate flying on them. ...
Jeremy Bingaman, a music-industry podcaster, posted a screenshot of United Airlines fares for flights out of Tampa to St. Louis on Tuesday. They went as high as $2,351 for refundable tickets in economy class on United Express, compared with Southwest, which showed tickets at $3...
A United Airlines aircraft awaits takeoff at Raleigh/Durham International Airport (RDU). SEAN CUDAHY/THE POINTS GUY What should you do if an airline is offering a voucher instead of a refund? Airlines are allowed to offer passengers a voucher instead of a refund. ...
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The Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer program is a transfer partner for all four major transferable currencies (from Chase, Citi, Amex, and Capital One), so if any of the deals that you see below would work well for you but you don’t have a healthy KrisFlyer balance, you should be able to ...
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