Amtrak is upgrading services for Acela First Class customers.
The rail carrier has refreshed the food and beverage menu and brought “sustainable” dinnerware.
“Amtrak continues to make customer-focused improvements, including reimagining our onboard Acela dining options in First-class with creative new options that travelers will enjoy,” said Amtrak Executive Vice President of Marketing & Revenue, Roger Harris. “As intercity travel increases and we offer additional Acela frequencies to better serve our customers, we want to ensure we are offering a safe, superior travel experience from departure to destination.”
Metropolitan Lounges are also available in Washington, D.C., New York, and Boston.
Amtrak is also offering discount fares on Acela and Northeast Regional routes as it works to build traffic during what appears to be a bumpy recovery from Covid-19.
Frontier adding service to the Bahamas
The discount carrier that offers three-day-a-week flights from New Castle Airport to Orlando will offer the same number of weekly flights from Philadelphia International Airport to Nassau.
The service begins in November.
The service is in keeping with Frontier’s focus on leisure travelers.
Southwest now part of corporate travel booking system
Southwest Airlines Co. began offering flights for sale within Sabre’s system, a corporate booking channel in the US. Sabre has been provided more limited services to the carrier for a quarter of a century.
The move makes it easier for corporate travel departments and agencies to book flights on Southwest, which does not use third-party consumer sites like Expedia.
Using Sabre is part of the airline’s focus on business travelers who trade the unassigned seating and lack of a business class section for features that include no baggage or change frees.
After business travel plunged during the pandemic, Southwest added leisure destinations. However, it also added flights to popular business airports like George Bush International in Houston and O’Haire in Chicago.
Delaware business travelers often fly out of Southwest’s stronghold at Baltimore-Washington Airport. Far fewer flights are offered out of Philadelphia International, although PHL offers nonstops to business hotspots in Denver and Dallas.
