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New and notes from around the interweb:
- US airport lounges are much-improved … and much busier (NYT)
- Why is airport food so expensive? (You already know why it’s bad.)
- Chinese teen stole two planes – and was good enough he’s now going to be given flying lessons
- Alaska, Southwest and United all have new bonus offers for online shopping. (HT: One Mile at a Time)
- Bill payment service (charge bills to your credit card and they pay for you) service Plastiq shares that they’re going to start enforcing 90 day expiration of referral credits for accounts without any referral earning/redemption, but initially only for people they actually email (eventually for everyone else). It’s been their published policy and I didn’t realize they weren’t enforcing it to begin with.
- Aeromexico is trolling immigration opponents (discounts based on how much Mexican DNA they have). [HT David H.]
Mexico's largest airline is trolling Americans and it's the best. h/t @Aeromexico pic.twitter.com/hPvqGnDZeF
— Kevin Sieff (@ksieff) January 17, 2019
I’m surprised that AeroMexico promo hasn’t got more attention. It is a really, really bad idea. So bad, I checked to make sure it wasn’t a parody. Almost unbelievably stupid.
Interesting that the airport food article mentions flying to Portland, but not that vendors in PDX are prohibited from selling goods for higher than street prices. It’s absolutely possible to have local vendors serve great food and thrive in an airport without charging inflated prices.
Doesn’t have to be both mediocre and overpriced (i.e., anything OTG at EWR)…look at Tortas Frontera and the Publican in ORD for great, local options that are quite reasonable.
@UA-NYC Tortas Frontera is the only US airport food I actually look forward to
Nothing wrong with McNuggets and fries from McDonald’s. And usually not a lot more expensive than McDonald’s outside the airport.
@Gary – it’s my #1 too! One Flew South in ATL is pretty good. Feel like there are some decent ones on the West Coast overall too between the major airports.
EWR…thankfully there’s Classified…if I’m going to get ripped off w/mediocre, overpriced food, at least it’s in a quiet environment.
Nice essay about airport pricing; am next looking forward to an article about popcorn pricing at movie theaters.
I love the AeroMexico promo!