Book AAdvantage Awards on AirBerlin and FinnAir at AA.com
Just a quick update to let you know that American has added a new feature to the website: now you can book FinnAir and AirBerlin AAdvantage partner awards online at…
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Video: A look at the new American Airlines Flight Attendant App
You’ve probably been on a flight and witnessed the flight attendant flipping through a thick dot matrix printout of the passenger manifest. That’s how they know passenger connection information, seating assignments,…
Video: Installing Wi-Fi on an American Airlines 737
I hope you’re having a good weekend. If you haven’t entered my reader giveaway for a chance to win an AAdvantage logo pencil cup and a 10% discount promo code,…
Weekend reading: The early days of American Airlines SABRE Computer Reservation System
Just a quick post to point you to a Wired article about the origin of the airline computer reservation system. From “Forget the Booze. The Mad Men’s Best Friend Was…
American Airlines Mobile App: Maya Leibman talks about future features
Former AAdvantage President and current CIO, Maya Leibman gave an interview to Lori Ranson over at the Airline Passenger Experience Association blog, and talked about some of the new features that…
A behind the scenes video of American’s DFW baggage system
Here’s a new video from the behind the scenes series from @AmericanAir. It’s a look at the luggage system at DFW airport. I guess I’ve spent a little too much…
Buy your own American Airlines 737 NGX for only $79
Sorry about the headline, but I couldn’t resist. This is way off topic, but it’s a slow AAdvantage news day anyway, so I thought I’d share this video of the…
Is American Testing Trigger Marketing Emails?
A couple of weeks ago, I was thinking about a mileage run just to try to get back into the ranks of AAdvantage Platinum (mostly because upgrade percentages for Gold…
Planning an AAdvantage Mileage Run? Try out the updated Google Flight Search
Last year Google completed their purchase of ITA Software, the powerful pricing, searching and inventory technology behind several airline and online travel sites. In September they introduced Google Flight Search…
AAdvantage launches official Google Plus page
If you’re like me, you have a Google Plus account that you seldom check. I think that the only time I ever even think about it is when I get…