Alaska Breaks Up With Delta, Lowers Award Rates; Transfer 20K Starpoints Into 32.5K Alaska Miles, 40K For Cathay Business Class To Israel!
The Alaska-Virgin America merger is complete and there's lots of news.
1. The Alaska-Delta partnership will end effective 5/1/17.
You can still earn Alaska miles on Delta...
El Al Waiving Cancellation And Change Fees
El Al has been rocked with labor issues over the past week. Many flights have been moved to their wet lease operators, while others...
United Will Mimic Delta Basic Economy, But With More Amenities Stripped Out
Before all the airlines decided to merge in order to avoid competing, the network carriers decided they needed to launch low cost carriers to compete...
Are El Al’s Wet Leasing Practices Going To Cause A Strike?
For the past couple of years El Al has been wet-leasing planes from other airlines to cover their routes. This has led to people...
Cathay Pacific Launching Hong Kong-Tel Aviv Flights In March
Cathay Pacific will finally launch nonstop service between Tel Aviv and Hong Kong in March.
This comes on the heels of Singapore Airlines announcing they...
Singapore Airlines Applies For Tel Aviv Flights
Ynet (Hebrew) reports that Singapore has applied for TLV landing permits for mid-2017.
Singapore flies a number of 5th Freedom routes such as JFK-Frankfurt, Houston-Manchester,...
El Al Miami-Tel Aviv Service Will Resume In 2017
El Al will resume service from Miami nonstop to Tel Aviv next year. They last operated that route in 2008. El Al will be receiving...
United Has 747s Masquerading As A320s
Delta and United are retiring their 747 fleet as airlines continue to move away from gas guzzling 4 engine airplanes.
My son Rafi has been on over 100 flights and...
NYC To/From Miami For $68, NYC To/From Chicago For $53 Each Way, Chicago To/From Los Angeles For $58 Each Way
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-Earn 3 points per dollar on airfare with the AMEX Premier Rewards Gold Card, the AMEX Business Gold Rewards Card,...
DDFB Question Of The Day: Global Entry Or TSA PreCheck?
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Is AAdvantage A ScAAm? See For Yourself And Let The DoT Know
A month ago I wrote a post asking "What exactly is American's AAdvantage?
Some commenters said I was too harsh. They said that flying NYC-LAX...
A Comparison Of AA, Delta, And United Saver Award Space: Is AAdvantage The New SkyPesos?
Last Tuesday I showed in 23 bullet points just how far American has fallen as the USAir merger has dragged down their airline operations...
What Exactly Is American’s AAdvantage?
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Roundup Of Routes Where Kosher Meals Are Served By North American Airlines
Kosher meals, or KSMLs in airline speak, can be a hit or miss, though the latter is more common. In this post I wrote...
British Airways Claims To Have Fixed Kosher Meal Snafu For Business Class Passengers
Related: On The Topic Of KSMLs; Not Having A Reserved Kosher Meal Costs Lufthansa How Much?!?
British Airways offers a number of routes with "sleeper...
Have You Purchased An El Al Flight And Wound Up On A Privilege Style Airplane?
Update: Commenters below share their experiences on Privilege Style, which range from mediocre to horrific. The most worrying one is from this commenter who...
United Rehauls Their Business Class Experience
Continental eliminated first class in the 90s and leapfrogged their domestic competition by improving their business class and renaming it BusinessFirst.
United kept that moniker after the merger,...
United Adds Flights, Delta Reduces Flights To Israel
Earlier this year American abruptly cancelled service to Tel Aviv shortly after their USAirways merger amidst contradictory statements from their president about whether the Philadelphia-Tel...
Alaska Buys Virgin America For A Massive Premium, Though Nobody Can Explain Why
Alaska is buying Virgin America for $2.6B in cash, or about $4B including assumed debt.
That's nearly double what Virgin America's market cap was before negotiations...
On The Topic Of KSMLs; Not Having A Reserved Kosher Meal Costs Lufthansa How Much?!?
I always preorder a kosher meal when it's available. More often than not it seems like KSMLs (that's airline speak for kosher meals) are...
Trip Notes: 4 Consecutive Transoceanic Itineraries With IRROPS, Here’s How We Handled Them
-Find dozens of trip reports by clicking on the “Trip Notes” tab on top of the DansDeals banner at the top of this site.
-Follow my travels...
Roundup Of Travel Weather Waivers For This Weekend
Update, 1/24: Delta has extended the waiver for flights through tomorrow while American, Frontier, and United have extended the waiver for flights through Tuesday....
East Coast Travel Weather Waivers Will Be Issued Soon, Here’s What You Might Want To Do Beforehand
This is usually a topic that I discuss at DansDeals Seminars, but I haven't done one of those in a while, so here goes.
Most...
Frontier To Add 9 Nonstop Routes From Cleveland In April
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Aeroflot Eliminates 2nd Free Checked Bag; 3 Remaining Airlines With 2 Free Checked Bags To Israel
Not long ago if you flew to Europe or Israel you got 2 free checked bags.
Then most of the major airlines started charging $100...
Transaero Filing For Bankruptcy, Will Cease Operations
Update: It now appears that Aeroflot will only be honoring people holding Transaero tickets for travel before 12/15/15. If you have a ticket on...
Delta Increasing Nonstop Service Between JFK And Tel Aviv
Update: The correct days of the week that the new flight will operate have been added below:
I wrote on DDF several hours ago that Delta...
Here’s What United Really Meant To Say Regarding United Club Access Changes
Several people have emailed me, posted on DDF, and posted on DDFB with an incorrect interpretation of an admittedly confusing email that United sent...
United: Goodbye International First Class; Goodbye Guam Hub?
United CEO Jeff Smisek makes it official that United's 3 cabin first class is on the way out,
"One aircraft he won’t be buying is...
Have A United Flight Today? Reschedule For Free!
United made the news this morning when their SHARES system went down yet again, grounding their entire mainline fleet.
If you have a ticket to...
Has The ZOA Jumped The Shark With Their Lufthansa Boycott?
The ZOA put out an action alert on July 1st "Don’t Fly Lufthansa German Airlines: It Discriminates Against Travelers to Israel"
The Zionist Organization of...
JetBlue Adds Checked Bag Fee
Effective for tickets purchased today, JetBlue is adding a checked baggage fee. If you purchased a ticket before today you will still get a...
United Will End All Flights From JFK Later This Year; Grab Lie-Flat Award Seats Now…
Amid heavy competition from American, Delta, JetBlue, and Virgin America on transcontinental flights from JFK, United is raising the white flag.
Effective 10/25 there will no...
New Amazon Prime Benefit: Free Video Streaming On JetBlue Flights
JetBlue currently offers basic internet browsing for free and they sell a premium level that allows streaming for $9/hour.
Amazon Prime members will soon be...
“Hacking” United’s Mobile Site To Find Out If Your Plane Will Have Wi-Fi, DirecTV, And Other Amenities
Related post: The Ultimate Hawaii Mileage Award Chart And Everything You Need To Know About The Hawaiian Islands
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DoT Will Not Compel United To Honor Tickets Purchased In Danish Kroner
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I joked on the DansDeals Forums that the Vegas line for the United first...
A Peek At The New United.com
United is redesigning their website. Until now they've been using Continental's circa-2006 site, which is functional if not a bit dated.
See a sneak peek...
Massive El Al Matmid Devaluation Effective 02/10/15
Update: Today is the final day to transfer points from AMEX to El Al that won't expire. Effective tomorrow transferred points will expire after...
JetBlue: Cleveland-Boston For $38 Round-Trip!
Yes, Clevelanders you read that right. JetBlue is finally making its way to C-Town.
JetBlue is joining the low-cost carrier parade that arrived in Cleveland...
United Continues To Slash Focus City Operations In Cleveland; American Reinstating LaGuardia Service!
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