News and notes from around the interweb:
- Study: Traveling Leads to More Sex, Weight Loss, and Feeling Younger
- Three passengers were hospitalized when an Air Canada Express flight from Goose Bay damaged its landing gear on arrival at Gander.
- FAA orders fix to GE engines on Boeing 787s to prevent inflight shutdowns.
- Passengers mutinied when a Tijuana – Guadalajara flight diverted to Hermosillo for a medical emergency
A medical emergency turned into a passenger mutiny when a pilot attempted to turn a Guadalajara-bound flight back around following an emergency landing Thursday night.
- EMV chip credit card transactions take an annoying long time while you stand and wait versus just swiping a card. Already there’s talk of needing a technology upgrade. (HT: Alan H.)
- For United’s 90th anniversary they’re giving away 90,000 miles to 90 people. Entering is easy.
United’s livery of my youth. By Torsten Maiwald, GFDL 1.2, via Wikimedia Commons - Troubled aircraft seat manufacturer Zodiac – whom American Airlines dropped and sued over the slow pace of deliveries — could be an acquisition target.
American Airlines 777-200 Seat. Conversions Have Seen Delays Because of Zodiac’s Inability to Deliver Seats.
United sweepstake end 4/18 so why is it being “pushed” here now???
@James Alexander
United contest ends 4/25.
“Sweepstakes starts at 12:00:00 a.m. EDT on 4/18/16 and ends at 11:59:59 EDT on 4/25/16 (“Promotion Period”).”
I entered into that United contest, but when I select “Enter” (and that I am not a Robot BS), the same screen comes up. I bet United is screwing us—-no surprise there.
Melissa: I get the same thing every day.
Juan and Melissa: works fine for me using Safari on iOS. Check your security settings to allow 3rd party cookies and disable any ad blockers then try again.
Re: your link about EMV/chip card processing time…this could all be fixed if people used NFC (Apple/Android Pay). It takes less than 1 second to process, and most machines that can process an EMV payment can also process an NFC payment.
Just entered the contest works for me using safari
Worked fine for me in Safari and IOS