7 Things Not to Miss Today

News and notes from around the interweb:

  1. How an expanded laptop ban would have destroyed connectivity for flights through European hubs to the U.S.

  2. Records show that ‘panicked passengers demanded evacuation’ from the American 767 that caught fire as it prepared to take off in Chicago in October.

  3. When the Gulf carriers put Delta out of business, Delta’s crew uniforms will be recycled into insulation and punching bag and pillow stuffing.

  4. Qatar cancelled four Airbus A350s so much for the claim that they buy planes without regard to economics. They apparently exercised cancellation rights because the planes were late, though it’s presumed the motivation was a combination of softer demand from low energy prices and the current crisis where the country is isolated from Gulf neighbors and boxed into limited airspace.


    Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

  5. “Why the ‘O’ in San Francisco’s Airport Code, SFO?” (HT: Cranky Flier)

  6. Richard Branson has nasty things to say about Qantas


    Qantas First Class Lounge, Sydney

  7. Fair warning for those American Airlines Sao Paulo flights. (Related: why we pass so much gas on planes)

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Comments

  1. Do hot women pass gas? Or is that impossible? Any woman that pashe’s gas cannot be hot

  2. Did you learn the straw man technique on the debating team?. Qatar cancelling a few aircraft orders doesn’t say anything meaningful about their finances or business plan. Kind of like suggesting a young celebrity is being fiscally prudent because he bought only 4 luxury cars instead of 5.

  3. Iaphx you are an old us airways executive. Yes?

    Or maybe Aa shareholder. Why do you take life so seriously?

  4. @iahphx – what is does is disprove the claim that they’re growing entirely divorced from economics. And that’s literally the claim that American, Delta, and United make, even though it’s a truly silly claim (hence the cutbacks in soft product we’ve seen at both Etihad and Emirates).

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