News and notes from around the interweb:
- You know that legendary El Al security? Looks like “a senior El Al security employee, a former Shin Bet security services official” was using their aircraft to smuggle cocaine.
- Icelandair buyout of Wow Air could be in jeopardy
Wow Air, Copyright: zhukovsky / 123RF Stock Photo - Don’t call your bank using the phone number Google gives you there’s a new way scammers are stealing banking details
- Lufthansa will cut a flight attendant from Airbus A330 flights and “is considering a further development of the Purser’s role.”
- Airlines removing paper from seat back pockets to save fuel
- When a Boston-bound Amtrak train stalled for six hours it had no flushable toilets and things got pretty ugly..
- Short history of Singapore Airlines
In re: calling bank, fraudsters have also set up fake confirm card sites that appear as autocomplete suggestions! via r/churning (couldn’t find the comment)
For those in the railroad industry and aware of the role Delta’s ex-CEO Richard Anderson is playing as a disrupter to tank Amtrak’s National Network (but for the Northeast Corridor), the news of cardboard boxes improvised as a portable potty on that disabled Acela train, lit up the internet.
Under Anderson, two long distance trains lost their dining cars, which were replaced by “Contemporary Dining” (a/k/a boxed cold meals).
The immediate thought throughout the industry was if Amtrak intended to recycle those potty boxes back as contemporary dining…
Who the hell uses Google Maps to find the phone number to their bank? WTF is wrong with people?