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TSA Forces Delta to Cancel Africa Service
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Delta was forced to cancel the launch of two new routes to Africa today. The airline was set to operate its inaugural flight between Atlanta and Nairobi, Kenya via Dakar, Senegal today, but cancelled after federal security officials denied approval. It was also denied for their flight to Monrovia, Liberia, set to...
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Emotional Baggage or Baggage Emotions
The Boston Globe theorized last week that JetBlue would soon match other airlines in charging for a first checked bag. Southwest and JetBlue are the only major carriers who do not charge for the first bag.
Dave Barger, CEO of JetBlue advised that no decision had been made and that he was “wary of being...
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Delta No Longer Outsourcing
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Delta Air Lines announced on Thursday that after years of complaints from customers preferring to speak to U.S.-based staff, they are no longer outsourcing calls to India.
Customer calls were no longer forwarded to India as of the first quarter of this year. Foreign call centers remain in Jamaica and South Africa, though...
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Let’s Catch Up – Roundup
Here’s yet another roundup. Some interesting stuff. And check out this video we found showing Chicago’s Midway Airport in 1954. A little bonus in case the new service doesn’t benefit you.
The Dulles Rail Link may start construction any day now.. An agreement has been signed to commit $900 million in federal funds to the...
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Roundup – All Passengers to the Gate
B.net has an interesting report on Delta taking over a Northwest route from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, reducing the plane operated from 148 to 76 seats and breaking the flight’s connection to Tokyo service, the original reason for putting the flight on in the first place. The new Delta Connection service connects with...
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Delta to Consolidate Regional Airlines
Delta Air Lines has announced plans to consolidate some of the functions of the regional airlines it owns.
Comair, Mesaba, and Compass Airlines will have their customer service and ramp workers merged into one company called Regional Handling Services(RHS). The other parts of the airlines will continue to operate independently, but this may be the...
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Delta Cuts Fares At Cincinnatti
The Middle Seat Terminal reports that Delta Air Lines, undisputed king of travel at Cincinnati, which is one of their hubs, has announced the cutting of fares from between 5 and 60% on both business and leisure tickets. The airport has long been, statistically, the most expensive airport in the country to fly out...
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More Noise, More News
Responding to “Obama fervor”, AirTran Airways is adding more flights to Washington D.C. for the inauguration. On January 21st, following the inauguration, they will increase service from Baltimore Washington to Atlanta and Milwaukee and Washington Dulles to Atlanta.
United is launching service from Washington-Dulles to Geneva and reinstating Denver to London service from March 29th...
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Service Shockers and Surprises
Time to update all of you on some service updates and enhancements that have been happening.
Delta Air Lines announced it would inaugurate service from Paris to Pittsburgh and Raleigh-Durham. The new transatlantic route out of Pittsburgh will be the only transatlantic service offered out of that city, and the Raleigh flight will be the...
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Delta Matches Northwest Bag and Other Fees – Who Bought Who?
Delta Air Lines announced today it will revise its baggage fees effective immediately for all tickets sold for travel on or after December 5th, it will charge a $15 fee for the first bag and a $25 fee for the second. Most Northwest policies and fees will be aligned to Delta’s structure effective December...
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Northwest is ‘joining’ Delta
We knew this was coming, but the day is finally here. This evening, Skymiles account holders that we are, we received an email from Richard Anderson, CEO of Delta Air Lines, announcing that Northwest Airlines was now part of Delta, but it would be business as usual.
We still remember the confusion of the USAirways/America...
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Weekend Update
TAM will begin daily flights from Sao Paulo to Orlando on November 21st.
TAM and Air Canada will be codesharing and expanding an effort to provide increased services between Brazil and Canada.
A new partnership between Irish carrier Aer Lingus and United Airlines is available for sale on flights beginning November 1st. United will codeshare on...
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