{"id":110,"date":"2008-05-31T14:59:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T19:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scripts.mit.edu\/~zong\/wpress\/?p=110"},"modified":"2008-05-31T15:02:52","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T20:02:52","slug":"sucks-to-be-northwest-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Sucks to be Northwest Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For $20 you can SuperSize your next paid roundtrip on Northwest Airlines\u00ae , Northwest Airlink or KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and earn an additional 1,000 Bonus Miles*. These Bonus Miles are in addition to the regular credited flight miles you will earn for your paid travel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Says a &#8220;special offer&#8221; on the Northwest Airlines web page. A bit of quick math shows that these days a frequent flyer mile is only worth between 1.5 to 2 cents when all is said and done, so this offer isn&#8217;t special at all. They must think we&#8217;re stupid. Or is this another way to boost revenue?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nMy first air flight was on Northwest Airlines, so it has some kind of, uh, place in my heart, even though I&#8217;ve hardly flown on it since. When I did, I noticed two things: (1) their logo has been spruced up with a new look, but despite this, (2) their planes were rickety instead of spanking new. In fact the plane I took was yellowed and creaky as if it was the same plane I took that first time, and probably was. That&#8217;s not a good thing to know about their fleet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/images\/nwa_logo2.gif\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.logo-design99.com\/nwa_logo2.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These days, I suppose NWA is technically bankrupt, like other large US airlines. With rising fuel prices, they&#8217;ve been desperate to recover revenue in any way possible, like imposing a fuel surcharge, limiting checked baggage weight or count, charging for them, raising miscellaneous fees like change fees, charging for certain preferred seats, devaluing frequent flyer miles, making them &#8220;expire&#8221; sooner, etc. Somewhere I read airlines cannot balance their books with crude above $120 per barrel&#8230; well, it&#8217;s $130+ per barrel and expectations are sticking, so I doubt the situation is sustainable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For $20 you can SuperSize your next paid roundtrip on Northwest Airlines\u00ae , Northwest Airlink or KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and earn an additional 1,000 Bonus Miles*. These Bonus Miles are in addition to the regular credited flight miles you will earn for your paid travel. Says a &#8220;special offer&#8221; on the Northwest Airlines web [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1271,1270,1273,1269,1266,1268,1274,1272,1267,1868],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flyer","tag-frequent-flyer-miles","tag-klm","tag-klm-royal-dutch","tag-klm-royal-dutch-airlines","tag-northwest-airlink","tag-offer","tag-royal","tag-royal-dutch-airlines","tag-supersize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}