It seems to be the week for airlines on twitter. First there is the Dutch teenager who tweeted American with a threat, and now US Airways tweeted a picture of poor relevance and bad taste. Although I’m on twitter, I’m not always paying attention to it which means I did not see the US Airways…
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Free Bags coming with Dividend Miles MasterCard
Dear Grace Alexander, We’re pleased to announce that as a US Airways Dividend Miles® MasterCard® cardmember, you and up to four companions will now enjoy your first eligible checked bag FREE. This benefit will be available on all domestic US Airways operated flights on April 30th. When the US Airways and American Airlines frequent flyer…
Dividend Miles from a Casino?
Valley Forge Casino Resort (Southeastern PA) has announced a new program to allow gamblers to earn frequent flyer miles. “Points for Miles allows Valley Forge Casino Resort to be the only casino in the world where you can use your player points for something meaningful outside of the resort. We’re not going to limit the…
IT Glitches…and it’s not even Friday the 13th yet!
Yesterday US Airways’ website gave some people who checked in a surprise…someone else’s boarding pass. Then today an error resulted in many people booking flights on United for only the mandatory 9/11 security fee of $2.50/segment. I was too busy being delayed in Syracuse to notice the ~$10 round trip deal which would be a…
PIT: My biggest fear for CLT
Today I flew into PIT and all I can think of is what PIT used to be and what could happen to CLT at any time. This link from Wikipedia sums up what happened to PIT at the hands of the airport and US Airways. My personal experience with PIT: I started traveling for business…
[CLOSED] Contest: US Airways Trial Silver Status
After I crossed 45 segments I received a Special Dividend from US Airways which allows me to nominate someone for US Airways Trial Silver. What is Trial Silver? You will get all of the perks of a Silver Elite (1 free checked bag, early boarding, bonus miles, a shot at free upgrades) from day one…
DOJ halts US/AA merger
From CNN The Justice Department and attorneys general from six states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the $11 billion merger of American Airlines and US Airways, saying the combination would lead to higher prices and less service for consumers. Hmm…Just when it started to seem like everything was getting dates…
Weekly Recap July 22/29
I’m sorry, this is again a bi-weekly recap. Recently I just seem to crash right after work so it’s hard to schedule posts or stay ontop of things. July 22: Flew direct CLT-SYR on US Airways. I was upgraded on this route, probably because I flew in the afternoon instead of the morning. Then we…
US Airways app finally released
After a false start over the weekend the long awaited US Airways app is finally released. I’m flying out tomorrow so I used the app to check in. First off although I had logged into my account it didn’t seem to pull up my itineraries if I went into “Check in.” I had to type…
US Airways to join oneworld Nov 1
Although flight62 is a flight attendant and not an official PR person for US Airways, she posted yesterday on Flyertalk that an internal memo stated US Airways would join the oneworld alliance on November 1. From State of the Airline today. Code share starts within 10 days of Day 1. That’s all I have right…