Articles tagged “emirates air”

Emirates has chosen wisely with Aniston. Anyone else playing this role might have come across as snobby, but we really feel for her even if we're the ones stuck in coach.

Rolling out Apple Pay across an entire fleet probably isn't cheap, but letting travelers use their iPhones to make in-flight purchases and bookings when they're already in-hand makes more sense than asking them to fish through bags to dig out a credit card.

Long flights can be a treat, if you’re flying in First. Otherwise, they’re more a badge of courage.

Travel brands that have separate Twitter accounts to handle customer inquiries should take a step back and reassess their strategy to determine whether it's the most effective use of their resources.

Certain routes just demand more crowded seating to be viable, and not every passenger market seems to mind as much, but that's still a lot of people on a single plane.

Missing in action in the U.S. airlines' report about the Gulf carriers' subsidies was transparency about the U.S. airlines' own subsidies. Although the congressional report is very dated, the Business Travel Coaltion, via WikiLeaks, is helping to fill in some of the blanks.

The selective outrage is cynical at best.

The U.S. carriers aren't sure how to battle the Gulf airlines, so they're turning to government for cover. They should be thinking more about the consumer.

There's more at stake here than could possibly fit a short Skift take. We'll keep watching and updating readers as this critical battle Open Skies battle progresses.

It's great to finally be able to dig into the report that's been much-discussed over the last month.