Video Digest: Airline Reinstalls Toilets on 727, JAL on Hold
by The Sky Steward
Filed under Featured Videos, News in the Clouds
The weekly Dear Sky Steward Digest covers airline news and more. This weeks edition:
Air France is introducing new perks for its economy passengers that it used to only offer to premium customers. This is part of the Air France strategy to compensate for declining air fares and a lower demand for premium seats. The seats are closer to the way seats used to be many years ago in business class before lie-flat seat became the rage.
JAL is still in play as Delta and American do their best to work out deals to link up with the airline through investment deals. The Japenese government has delayed making any decision about JAL until November and has set up a special panel to look into all option including accepting investments and spinning off pieces of JAL.
Amerijet, a cargo airline based out of Miami, has reached a tentative agreement with their pilots that will return bathrooms to their jets. The toilets were removed to lower fuel consumption and since then, pilots have been required to use plastic bags as a toilet on flights.
