Scott McCartney, Travel Editor of The Wall Street Journal, discusses how the airlines now make more money from their frequent flyer programs than they do from
normal airline operations, and which airlines are the best and worst at making award seats available to passengers.
Not exact matches
Delta CEO Ed Bastian apologized to customers in a video, saying that the
airline's employees are «working around the clock» to restore
normal operations.
Robert Mann, an aviation consultant and former American
Airlines executive, said it would most likely be Tuesday before Delta's
operations in Atlanta returned to
normal, and for passengers «it could be most of the week» because there aren't many open seats on other flights in the last week before Christmas.
These hurricanes disrupted
normal airline flight
operations, with the largest number of cancellations occurring the day after Hurricane Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys, with 4,567 cancellations.
According to Tumba, the
airline has resumed
normal operations with effect from Friday morning on all routes.
Getting back to
normal operations in Houston, struck by devastating floods in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, will take weeks for Chicago - based United
Airlines, said
airline spokesman Charlie Hobart.
The State Department expressed hopes that by allowing
airlines to resume
normal operations, travelers would have plentiful and improved options, and the arrangement would «promote people - to - people links.»
«With its
operations now returned to
normal, Manchester Airport, its
airlines and the fuel companies will be working together to review the incident, learn lessons and mitigate any risk of disruption that might be caused by a similar incident in the future.»
In the interim, Air Canada says its
operations are not affected and the
airline will continue to operate its
normal schedule.