News and notes from around the interweb:
- Berlin voted in a non-binding referendum to keep the existing Tegel airport open even after the white elephant Brandenburg airport eventually opens maybe in 2019 (it was supposed to open in 2011).
Opponents wanted it closed to eliminate noise in the area and to justify the horrendous cost of the newer airport. Lufthansa also wanted it closed so passengers would have to come to them at Brandenburg, rather than allowing competition at another airport more convenient to many customers.
- Alaska Airlines is retiring its last Boeing 737-400 combi
- Don’t let merchants charge you in U.S. dollars when you’re traveling abroad
- A team has been selected to design the $10 billion JFK airport boondoggle that won’t do anything to connect the airport to transit or relieve congested airspace.
- 5 places to take advantage of a strong dollar
- This woman does what we all wish we could do when there’s no airline staff around to help. Like. A. Boss.
Granny is awesome!
My wife took over for the Disney employee at the end of the old nordic North Sea ride, it was awesome!
Had my hotel in Beijing try to pull the USD trick on me a couple of weeks ago–ran it as a USD charge for $1060 without asking me. I told them to rerun it as a yuan charge. Ended up being $928.