Mews and Notes from Around the Interweb:
- @AmericanAir helps make a love connection. (HT: Point Me to the Plane)
- Ski holiday company will pay parents’ fines for taking their kids out of school.
- Free-quent flyer investigates limits to the JH Preferred Prepaid Visa. You can do more than conventional wisdom has supposed.
- Air Baltic BalticMiles is joining coalition loyalty program PINS.
- Scott Mayerowitz tells us that there are legitimate reasons for a plane’s transponder to be able to be turned off.
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re: legitimate reasons for turning off plane’s transponder…
Really lame reasons. Honestly, i think there should be a second transponder on board that can be forced to be turned on remotely…
@John K – how about this — electrical fire, you shut down all non-essential items, you don’t want wherever it is coming from to continue to burn. Then you turn things back on one at a time.
Maybe both pilots ate the fish.