News and notes from around the interweb:
- ICYMI: Paul Manafort is alleged to have been using Airbnb to launder money
- “Cannabis is legal” bins at TSA checkpoints at the Ontario, California airport
- When Google acquired ITA Software they agreed to support public facing API for airfare search for five years. After 7 years they will shut down the QPX Express API service April 11, 2018. (HT: Douglas M.)
According to TechCrunch, customers of QPX include a lot of household names like Bing Travel, Cape Air, CheapTickets, Kayak.com, Orbitz, Alitalia, American, ANA, United Airlines, US Airways, and Virgin Atlantic.
- Airport worker tried to sneak onto a JetBlue flight to Boston. He used his credentials to access the plane and even self-checked luggage. (HT: Ken A.)
- An arrest warrant has been obtained for actress Rose McGowan after she allegedly left behind drugs on a United flight to Washington Dulles early in the year.
- PETA sent out a press release that “United Airlines quickly agreed to remove [foie gras] from the menu at Classified, the airline’s invitation-only restaurant at Newark Liberty International Airport” in response to their appeal.
- In Soviet Russia, inflight entertainment watches you! (The Russian Reversal joke would work better if American Airlines wasn’t so opposed to seat back entertainment.)
What dish?
What’s in the disssshhhhhh???
Looks like the main article was updated. Those household names are customers of the ENTERPRISE product and will not be affected by the shutdown.