The pathway for this partnership to truly take flight will require years of work, innovation, and regulatory approval from the Federal Aviation Administration, as well as clear communication and due diligence around safety; Alaska became embroiled in the current wave of aviation safety concerns when ...
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American Airlines' solution is to do more of the work itself. "We just have one customer and that's American Airlines doing our work," American's chief operating officer, David Seymour, said. "We can control our own destiny in that area." American Airlines workers perform maintenance on CF...
aAfter serving in the US Navy for 20 yers, being a Boeing flight instructor, and woking with Alaska Airlines for more than three yeas, Webb signed a contract with Shenzhen Airlines last May to captain domestic routes in China. As an experienced pilot, he still feels the same neverousness ...
A technology issue atAlaska Airlinesresulted in the temporary grounding of flights in Seattle on Monday morning and problems into the afternoon for people trying to book flights on its website, the airline said. The Seattle-based companysaid in a statement the issue Monday morning resulted in ...
‘Other airlines are doing it’ is not a smart business reason to make a change, Alaska earns a revenue premium precisely by not following the herd with Mileage Plan. And never forget that even Delta,which wanted to go to a true revenue-based redemption modelbacked off of that becausei...
American has created a system to encourage you to join their frequent flyer program – but credit an unintended incentive to hold off cancelling trips you aren’t going to take until as late as the day of travel, so that you have longer to use your travel credits. Southwest Ai...
I get why service is often indifferent on US airlines. I really do. Historically airlines haven’t shown much respect towards their employees, passenger behavior seems to get progressively worse, and with seniority being the main metric which matters, employees don’t have much of an incentive ...
Under these conditions, the federal rules allow air carriers to disable these exits and plug the openings. That’s precisely what happened with Alaska Airlines Flight 1282—and how “door plug” suddenly entered the American vernacular. Although this sort of workaround is auth...
The L1011 was also a trijet but the 2nd engine was mounted in line with the fuselage rather than above it like the 727 so the design can work. The A350 is also put together better; you don't hear repeated stories about Airbus saying they found manufacturing errors on A350s as Boeing...