Thai Airways may have PR problem on its hand when it comes to its new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners that cannot handle overweight people and lap children in business class after seat belt fix.
Thai media was reporting on Friday that Thai Airways’ Corporate Image and Social Responsibility Division made this announcement. If you waistline exceeds 56 inches or you have lap child, you have to fly in economy even if you paid for business.
Indian budget carrier IndiGo is allowed to resume flights with it’s Airbus A320neo aircraft based on a court decision won from the High Court in Delhi yesterday.
Aviation watchdog DGCA had on March 12 ordered IndiGo and GoAir to immediately ground 11 A320neo planes powered with a certain series of Pratt & Whitney engines after three incidents of mid-air engine failures in less than a month.
IHG Rewards Club has launched new up to 25% off sale for stays in Canada through June 15, 2018.
The “3-Night Escape” rate requires three night minimum stay, is discounted 10% to 25% off of the Best Available Rate and must be booked by April 3.
Number of Air France unions last struck on February 22, 2018, that lead to cancellation roughly half of the long-haul flights plus smaller percentage of short and medium haul ones. The expected strike will likely lead to similar cancellation percentage.
Unions have called for March 23rd and now also for 30th strikes. Employees are demanding 6% pay raise after six years of stagnant wages. The airline has offered them just 1%. AIr France has now issued rebooking guidelines for next week.
Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) launched early this month a promotion for members booking stays in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam through June 30, 2018 (booking window is about to end).
Depending of the stay length members can earn up to 3,000 bonus points if booked by March 19.
Malaysia Airlines has launched number of economy and business class specials ex-Kuala Lumpur tied to a MATTA travel fair taking place in the city.
These fares are valid for travel until February 2019 but must be ticketed by March 20. Enrich program members can also earn some bonus miles.
Singapore Airlines has launched their latest Spontaneous Escapes that are valid for travel between April 1 – 30, 2018.
These awards valid on travel both Singapore Airlines and SilkAir on select routes are discounted by 30% and needs to be booked by March 31.
A LoyaltyLobby reader sent us a question by email about Wyndham Rewards Visa Checkout promotion (read more here) that they had earlier this year that apparently had been terminated yearly!
Remember that you can always email us, send a message via Facebook or use Twitter and include photos too. We’ll try to cover Reader Questions & Comments here several times a week.
Our ‘Blast from the Past’ Fabulous Friday topic this week is about hotels that have fax machines in their rooms, allowing guests to send and sometimes receive a fax right at their desk.
Fax machines can sometimes also be used as a printer if hooked up to the computer, however most of the time the machines hotels provide are rather antiquated and can’t be used for that purpose.
Just a few days after United Airlines caused the death of a passengers dog inside the cabin they are back in the news for mistakenly flying yet another pet to Japan instead of Kansas City.
Meanwhile a U.S. Senator from Lousiana has announced to introduce a bill which will set restrictions on how pets are treated and has written to United Airlines President Kirby to explain their current policies and incidents.
Hertz Gold Plus Rewards has now launched the double points offer that Sebastian wrote last week (access here) for US residents as well.
The offer is valid for rentals picked up between March 7 – April 30, 2018, excluding Brazil. Base points, President’s Circle or Five Star tier bonuses are eligible for doubling.
Hilton Honors on Tuesday launched basically three separate sales with different stay dates and discounts for three different parts of the world.
I wrote about these offers as they went live (didn’t at the same time) but thought that it would be a good idea to wrap them all up.
