News and notes from around the interweb:
- “I believe American Airlines has given up on caring about its domestic first class meals.”
- 19 American Idol Winners Brought Guns onto Planes: Country singer Scott McCreery was caught at a Raleigh airport security checkpoint with a loaded 9 millimeter handgun in his backpack. And since the TSA has a 95% failure rate detecting threats finding only 1 in 20 dangerous items going through x-ray, that suggests…
- End of an era: United stops selling international first class on most Boeing 777 routes for travel May 1 onward
United Global First - Federal court upholds inflight e-cigarette ban saying the Department of Transportation had the authority under a law banning smoking e-cigarettes “involve no combustion and produce no smoke.”
- 2000 American AAdvantage mile bonus for online shopping
- Watch an American Airlines Boeing 757 from Charlotte execute a late go around in bad weather at St Maarten’s Princess Juliana International Airport:
That food pic looks exactly like an AA coach meal circa 1998, except the coach meal had more lettuce in the salad.
“19 American Idol Winners Brought Guns onto Planes” – clickbait headline
No @Bill it’s my sense of humor, get over it.
The airplane go-around video in St Maartens, should serve as a simple reminder that a pilot, co-pilot, or captain’s job, is all about take-offs and landings, not D0, resolving customer complaints, intervening when HQ or the cabin crew cannot handle an upset customer, etc. Unless airlines place irate customer scenarios in the flight simulator and grade pilots on their ability to manage random passenger scenario’s, please do not ever again report that the Captain had to intervene for something that the CEO can handle. In return, I won’t expect the CEO to fly the plane.
@Bill —> Back when a Texas blogger known as Swirly Face was busted, they found a dozen other Texas bloggers in his active pedophile ring.
Using Gary’s logic, the headline should be: Gary, Mr. Thought Leader In Travel, Is A Pedophile.
How’s that for a “sense of humor”? 😉
@JC actually that’s not a parallel use of logic at all.
@Gary –> It makes far more sense, and likely more accurate, too, than yours.
To someone who took a logic course taught in Klingon maybe.
@Gary –>. Language is irrelevant. 1/2 dozen plus prominent Texas bloggers were pedophiles. You are also a prominent Texas blogger. Bet you could be a pedohphile, too. Makes as much sense, actually more sense, than your 19 American Idol winners bringing a gun onto a plane.
Are you still on parole, Gary?
Oh, “it’s my sense of humor, get over it.”
American has significantly improved the quality of it’s first class meal by adding a mouth watering cucumber slice to it’s large side salads.