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Boeing, over the past 24 hours, has cancelled a deal to purchase 80% of Embraer’s commercial aviation business as the timelines to close the deal expired yesterday. Embraer states that it was ready to close the deal but it was wrongfully terminated.
A new Club Vistara Update has been rolled out to members, which accounts for the CoronaVirus related grounding. The airline will reinstate expired points and vouchers for four months, and also give SOME leeway on status, but not much.
Is Credit Card Dispute your way out of your credit shell with the airline? We try and explore how this could go both ways.
Emirates Commercial flights are planned to be resumed on July 1 for the moment. However, Emirates has put in place new service protocols which involve strictly no meals except on long-haul flights (repacked) and social distancing measures. No cabin bags allowed as well.
Aviointeriors, an Italian seat maker, has filed for a patent on a new radical design of seats (for economy class!) which promises to protect from CoVid-19, and perhaps even making conversation with a pesky neighbour on the plane.
I call upon the entire LFAL community to come together and help those who have their refunds stuck. Tell us and if we can, we will help you with the combined wisdom of the entire bunch to give you a direction to get your refunds.
Airbus has now started e-delivering aircraft. That does not mean the aircraft are flying themselves home, but it does mean the customer no longer has to be setting up a shop inside Airbus to collect each and every plane of theirs.
Apart from the generous one-year extension of Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer Gold, SQ has also granted some members an upgrade of their SQ status due to CoVid-19 related travel stopping altogether.
American Express is offering a new promotion to their Platinum Cardmembers, where all spends will get double points through July 2020. That means you can earn up to 15 Membership Rewards points per INR 100 spend in the coming months.
Aditya Ghosh, Sanjiv Kapoor and Rahul Taneja, on one panel. For a fun conversation which covered some of their challenges at their airlines and how things are working out for them after their aviation stints.
In spite of strict instructions from the government that no airline should accept bookings till further notice, airlines operating in India continue to accept bookings for the days ahead. Here is a list of the airlines complying with the rules and the ones which are not (which is most of them)
