New and notes from around the interweb:
- Alaska Airlines appears to have lost an unaccompanied minor. In response they refunded the $75 unaccompanied minor fee.
A PARENT’S WORST NIGHTMARE: A flight from RDU took a chaotic turn for a 13 year old who landed in California alone. Douglas and Maria Davila say they paid @AlaskaAir an unaccompanied minor fee, but those services weren’t provided. Story tonight at 11 on #abc11. pic.twitter.com/Bpf3K1HsUw
— Akilah Davis (@DavisABC11) August 23, 2019
- A hotel chain named for Jewish philosopher Maimonides wants to disrupt hospitality. Meanwhile Howard Johnson hotels are apparently still a thing.
- Nasty comments to a blogger over a negative hotel review trace back to Hilton corporate
- Several local news outlets are vying for their airport to win the TSA’s cutest dog contest.
Without any actual terrorist threats to protect against, the agency that couldn’t find North with a compass in the Arctic just seems bored.
- British Prime Minister declares an end to the War on Water with the rollout of 3D scanning technology by December 2022. Passengers will no longer be limited to how much liquid they can bring through checkpoints.
- Evolving norms are hard.
On our last flight, a woman asked me to get her luggage down from the overhead bin. I had a brief moment of panic. Did I read somewhere that this was now forbidden? Then I realized that if she was asking me to it must be ok.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) August 24, 2019
- And don’t you dare ring the call button, it’s not a life-threatening emergency.
The HoJo revival is an interesting phenomenon. I’m planning a trip to Argentina in February, and it seems that half the hotels in that country are HoJos.
I forgot that snacks are distributed on flights. I recently spent almost 5 hours on Delta and there was nothing. Wife had same experience. We both experienced this in economy, we both noticed that snacks and meals were distributed in first class and then it was declared dangerous for the nest hours.
With the exception of real extreme weather, fluids should be mandatory.
Was just in Argentina and I was also surprised at existence of HoJo. Meant to take a picture.
OK, is “finding North with a compass in the Arctic” an actual saying, because…..wouldn’t it actually be MORE difficult because of the difference between magnetic north and true north?
@Sco – not a real saying, I made it up as I was typing, but that’s an interesting question and it might well be, the thought was you’re ALREADY THERE 🙂
HoJo Anaheim was decent for a Disneyland trip when we scored an Orange Monday (or something like that) black friday deal for half off our room.
A Maimonides-themed hotel? I dunno. Get me a room on one of the higher floors, smack in the middle of a cloud of unknowing.
RAMBAM, thank you ma’am.
I’m here all night. Heck, I’m in Cairo, putting on a clinic.
There is still a Hojos in the Berkshires of Mass and it is usually Packed.