News and notes from around the interweb:

• 30% off Turkish Airlines awards and there’s generally good business class availability at the moment between US gateways and Istanbul (and beyond).

• App update lets United passengers do a mad dash to get out of their middle seat assignment

• Gross

• Congress expected to fund finally figuring out UFOs but I’m not sure it’s a resources problem, we genuinely don’t know.

• The Alaska Airlines merchandise store for holiday gifts. The only online airline store I really have bought from multiple times is United’s. I still get joy from their Polaris cookbook.

• Qatar Airways Privilege Club members purchasing a flight on December 10 will receive 100 bonus elite QPoints to celebrate flights for 2022 FIFA.