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United flight attendants appear close to finally getting a new contract after more than five years without a raise, but the price of that deal may be something unions almost never surrender: scope. A reported trade for pay on the ground could give United room to own a regional airline outright.

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American Airlines customer service agents have filed a class action attempt alleging the company routinely took unpaid labor—auto-deducted lunch breaks even when agents kept working, and timekeeping “rounding” that shaved minutes off the start and end of shifts. The catch is that airlines often sit in a special federal carve-out that can block overtime claims entirely, so the la...

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Emirates and Qatar are still flying some remarkably light loads as traffic to Dubai and Doha dries up during the regional conflict. In at least two reported cases, passengers found themselves with what travelers almost never get: an entire first or business class cabin effectively to themselves.

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Bilt’s new $795 Palladium card is already delivering in ways that matter: the 50,000-point bonus posts fast, Gold status locks in through early 2028, and with the right stacking strategy the card can generate 4X on everyday spend — turning routine purchases into outsized transfer value with partners like Alaska, Hyatt, and Air France-KLM.

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A short boarding video from an American Airlines flight captures two things at once: a flight attendant sees a phone aimed at a woman in front of the camera and quickly checks whether the pair are traveling together, defusing what looks like a potentially creepy situation. But the same clip also fuels the familiar complaint about American’s onboard culture — the front-galley pos...

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