Good morning, and welcome to today's community discussion thread! Today's posts will appear here throughout the day, but this thread is for going off-topic. Did you love/hate something about today's coverage? Are you tracking other news I missed? Or, do you just have a general question about rewards travel? This is the place for your wandering thoughts.
Today's posts on OMAAT:
- FAA Firing Two Air Traffic Controllers For Leaving Early Night Of Deadly LaGuardia Air Canada Accident
- British Airways Passenger Sues Airline Over “Misaligned” Eyes After Water Bottle Fell On Head
- United CEO Predicts American Will Abandon Chicago Hub, Claims Consumers Will Benefit
- Bilt Rent Day Promotion September 2026: 25-100% Virgin Atlantic Transfer Bonus
- Qatar Airways & Skytrax Have Beef: “World’s Best Airline” No More?
- Highest-Ever Chase Ink Business Unlimited Bonus: Earn 100K Bonus Points
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According to YHBU, Qatar Airways is asking its sales partners to delete all mentions of "Skytrax", "World’s Best Airline", "Five-Star Airline" and similar in relation to Qatar Airways.
The Skytrax World Airline Awards will take place on Sep 18.
@ritesa Probably has a lot to do with a rise in complaints following the disruptions in the Middle East since late February. Arguably, it was mostly out of their control, but that doesn't make anyone who had to deal with it very happy.
If true, wonder who'll take 1st place?! (If I had to guess... SQ, CX, JL or NH)
Just a heads up for those who haven't seen it, Samar is writing a great review series about a trip to Asia, in a dedicated sub-forum. If you'd like to follow along, you can do so here, because I'm loving his review so far:
https://onemileatatime.com/community/samar-2-week-asia/
I just saw that we finally have the ability to edit our own post on an article! Huzzah! 😀
@jallan Happy you like the change, it's something Jeremy spearheaded! We rolled that out a little over a week ago:
https://onemileatatime.com/news/omaat-feature-updates-site-optimizations/