News and notes from around the interweb:
- Your bare feet shouldn’t extend into another passenger’s space.
Air travel in 2024 on my @SouthwestAir flight this morning.
People just don’t seem to know how to behave in public anymore. pic.twitter.com/9pu45HRxfe
— James Breeden (@JamesBreeden) August 6, 2024
- The reservations agent you were mean to wants you banned from the airline
- It’s usually United that’s great at celebrating inflight milestones. I never see this from American. But it was the great Chris Sloan that was the passenger.
Hi @AmericanAir. I was on AA176 HND-DFW today. An American AAngel purser Maura Curley-Collins recognized my reaching 2 million miles status on American and 32 year membership in AAdvantage with a bottle of Japanese rice wine and a sweet letter. She is just outstanding & one of… pic.twitter.com/FrPK0MCi67
— Chris Sloan (@airchive) August 6, 2024
- The Fiji Airways Dallas flight is now scheduled:
It's official! Fiji Airways announces it will launch its new route from Nadi (NAN) to Dallas (DFW) on December 10.
Flights will operate 3x weekly using the Airbus A350-900:
• FJ890 Depart NAN 9:15 PM Arrive DFW 3:20 PM
• FJ891 Depart DFW 9:55 PM Arrive NAN 5:20 AM (+2 days) pic.twitter.com/kzsXEK7GlF— Ishrion Aviation (@IshrionA) August 6, 2024
- Delta’s passengers would like a word.
Funny how frustrating paying for something without receiving it is huh?
byu/MackAndSteeze indelta - Cathay Pacific will refresh The Wing lounge in 2026 it was last refreshed a decade ago, and still has among the best shower suites (The Cabanas). I really enjoy ordering coffee into one of those as I refresh and get dressed before a connecting flight.
I used to work in corporate. We allowed frontline agents to file reports on a-hole customers, giving agents the illusion of control and retribution. In reality, nothing happened to those customers because we don’t care about their attitudes – we just care about their money. We had HR Analytics investigate whether the a-holes caused increased turnover/attrition problems in the frontline service agents, and there was no difference—AFTER we instituted the reporting system.
Uber drivers can rate passengers, but passengers never get fired. It’s just to keep the drivers feeling like they have control.
When they, like frontline agents, have no control and no power because the job is a low skill endeavor for people who couldn’t be bothered to pay attention in school and get a degree and a worthwhile career.
@SFO/EWR
Your last paragraph is so true
No part of your body should extend into another passenger’s space.—I like that better, but, yeah feet are the worst.
It depends who owns the feet. Are they clean? Do they belong to a beautiful lass? Is she smiling? Alas, my sexism is showing but this is how I met my wife so . . . I might be a bit prejudice!
PS: She’s a gorgeous redhead and has absolutely lovely feet (she always wears clogs, no impact on toes, bunions, etc).
Regarding the Delta/Crowdstrike Reddit Post, I loved the Poster’s comment (appears to be MackAndSteeze): “Funny how Frustrating [it is] paying for something without receiving it is, huh ?”. Classic comment about Delta, Hilarious !!!
I think Quentin Tarantino could make a great airplane feet movie…..
Hey delta why just your airline take so long to recover. Because you’re running crap software without paying programmers to do it correctly. Southwest did not have a problem because they are running windows 95 with a DOS system from 1988
The feet situation depends on the two people involved. They could have been family or friends where there is no problem. In my case, my knee would be where the foot is so there would be contact.
Put your feet in the air like you don’t care.