News and notes from around the interweb:
- What airports were like in 1987
- Two self-upgraders arrested in China after assaulting police officer
- TSA leasing a new headquarters in a deal valued at $316 million
- Zach Honig reviews Classified the invitation-only restaurant at Newark.
My takeaway: It’s a private room inside Saison where anyone can eat but with better views (food from the same kitchen). It’s expensive (“if you’re traveling with an expense account, you should be able to stay within your per diem, especially if a lunch or dinner at Classified is your one and only paid meal for the day“). And the iPads are just as out of place as they are at CBGB.
- How to pull air traffic control out of the 1960s
- The transformation of DFW’s terminal E
- Oldest flying Boeing 747 grounded after 47 years
- Managing and keeping track of your points is romance.
Re the nick kroll sketch: if I were that girl, a guy telling me he redeems his points at 1 cpp would be the biggest turn off ever. Blech.
Nice 1987 memories…but they left out the pay with quarters tvs that were stationed throughout the concourses. And I seem to remember a lot more plane viewing stops on roads very near the ends of runways…those were the days when you’d lay on the hood of your car and watch the planes glide just above you.
Regarding the 1987 article, they left out how the airlines didn’t care who was on the ticket – just that you had that paper ticket in hand. Before 9/11, we bought some frequent flyer tickets from someone from USA Today classifieds with their name on them. We just used carry ones then (when the airlines didn’t really care about limiting them because baggage was free).