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Delta Air Lines is a major U.S. airline operating domestic and international passenger flights from hubs including Atlanta and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
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United Airlines is giving Delta and American elite flyers 90 days of matching status, kept through January 2028 only if they spend $1,500 to $7,000 on United. United pays for those 90 days of elite perks up front and collects only from flyers who move real spending.
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United is matching the elite status of Delta and American fliers and pitching Starlink Wi-Fi, on about a third of its fleet, as the reason to switch. That puts in-flight connectivity at the center of the fight for the carriers' most valuable fliers, though the evidence that it moves them is so far limited to social-media posts.
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Academic researchers hijacked the link between two Boeing 737 flight computers with a coin-sized board. The constraint was never budget or code. It was who can reach the nose bay.
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Greg Abel added 48.1 million Alphabet shares in his second full quarter as CEO, with roughly 60% of the spend routed through a private placement tied to Google's June capital raise.
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Record diesel crack spreads on top of expensive crude have taken the US pump price to an all-time high. Senator Chuck Grassley wants President Trump to ban the exports, which are also at a record.
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Craig Celek told Business Insider that he left a leadership role at Saks Off 5th for Delta cabin crew at 55, and that three US carriers had offered him work. It is one candidate's account of one hiring cycle.
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United, Southwest and American told Morgan Stanley's Laguna Conference that high fuel means fewer flights and higher fares this winter. Their own CFOs say fuel reaches fares with a lag, so the increase lands on first-quarter bookings.
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The airlines spent weeks asking the FAA to narrow SMART, and the version debuting this month hands controllers route advice at the three Washington-area airports under a 90-day test. The agency's own officials describe it as both record speed and a slow roll.
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The federal seed pays only when a guardian opens the account, so the employers now matching it have budgeted a per-child cost whose real size depends on how many of their own workers file the paperwork.
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Scott Kirby approached American and, reportedly, Delta this year, and the arithmetic of what a combination would hold is now on the record even though no seller has agreed to sell anything.
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JetBlue's premium unit revenue grew 13% last quarter against 11% in Main Cabin. The airline is answering with a domestic first-class cabin in every market its Mint business class does not already serve.
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The agency says it cannot ban the practice, only the undisclosed version of it. That leaves pricing and data teams owing an answer on which customer data moved a price.
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KLM's first A350 will fly from October with all 34 business seats blocked. Lufthansa launched with four of 28. Bespoke premium layouts have outrun the approval queue.
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A passenger reportedly replaced a Delta flight's in-flight Wi-Fi with their own network and a phishing page. It surfaced the same week the administration floated paying private firms to hack back.
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American will put 4K screens at every seat on new narrowbodies from 2028 and add premium seats fleetwide. The driver is a profit gap CNBC puts at about $3bn to United and nearly $5bn to Delta.
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