News and notes from around the interweb:
- TSA PreCheck to be offered on some international itineraries. Very annoying not to get the three beeps even when connecting domestically to or from an international trip (almost enough to make me want separate tickets). So possible good news on this front, significantly short on details.
- Qatar Airways is looking to join oneworld in October merely a year after announcing their plans to join. I don’t know if they’ll make it, but I like that hey have an aggressive timeline. They also intend to launch Philadelphia service, no doubt because oneworld will have a hub there with the US Airways/American merger.
- Pizza in Motion liked Black’s BBQ in Lockhart, Texas almost as much as I did
- American Airlines may be adding inflight entertainment to their 737s flying transcon routes from Los Angeles (Newark, Boston, DC) and New York JFK (San Diego, Seattle). I’m surprised that more travelers don’t come prepared with their own movies, music, and television these days (although of course many do).
I had precheck on all segments for EWR-IAD-DUB with a 14 hour IAD layover. No problems at all.
Does anyone have information if the AA seatback inflight entertainment systems will provide an option to display captions?
Continental and certain Cathay Pacific IFE system provide such an option.
Not much knowledge pf what may be in the works yet
Received a little “tsa pre” check on my UA domestic e boarding pass this morning. Was nice to know that it would happen before arriving. Maybe this is old news, but it was new for me!
AA LAX-YYZ again gets the shaft. This flight is always full of studio actors doing their shoots in Toronto – I’m surprised that it’s not considered more of a premium route.
re: Black’s BBQ- I have never been there, but I ordered a bottle of their sauce a while back and did not like it at all. I’ve actually been to a couple of places where this has been the case, and the food onsite was far better than their bottled sauce would suggest. Hoping to get to Black’s one day to check it out.
@easy victor – Lockhart BBQ isn’t about the sauce. it is about the meat without sauce. you don’t need sauce, so there’s no reason to invest in good sauce
@easy victor – Lockhart BBQ isn’t about the sauce. it is about the meat without sauce. you don’t need sauce, so there’s no reason to invest in good sauce