I hope everyone is having a great weekend so far, and happy holidays! I can't believe the new year is right around the corner... time flies. I've been at home with family for the past week, and have no travel plans until well into January, which should allow me to fully get caught up on trip reports.
On the points & travel front, this week an Azerbaijan Airlines jet crashed, Condor cut routes to North America, Alaska and Hawaiian introduced a reciprocal status match, Singapore Airlines unveiled new business class amenity kits, and more. It was a fairly slow week when it comes to news, and I expect that will be the case this coming week as well.
With that out of the way, here's a recap of this week on the blog: