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News and notes from around the interweb:
- Alaska Airlines is offering status matches (not challenges) to Delta, United, and Southwest elite frequent flyers. (HT: Frequent Miler)
- In defense of learning by traveling You wouldn’t think this needs a defense, but..
Nobel Prize winning economist Herbert Simon writes: “Anything that can be learned by a normal American adult on a trip to a foreign country (of less than one year’s duration) can be learned more quickly, cheaply, and easily by visiting the San Diego Public Library.”
- He won $60K at MGM casino. Then he was shot with a rifle and robbed in his hotel room (HT: Travel Zork)
- Atlanta is trying to kick homeless out of its airport using the January 6 Capitol riots as pretext, natch.
A clause refers to “recent events” that posed security threats to government buildings.
In the months since the airport hours legislation was first drafted by city officials, the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and concerns about security at state capitols and other government buildings have highlighted the risks of breaches of public buildings.
The Capitol riots, however, occurred in broad daylight rather than the overnight hours the airport restrictions are focused on.
- Etihad is picking up brisk cargo business carrying Covid-19 test samples from countries that lack labs to analyze them.
- SkyTeam member Czech Airlines could lay off its entire workforce
What if you earned 0 miles on Delta last year due to the pandemic but your status got ‘extended’ until 2022? Will Alaska consider that a legitimate status match?
“Czech Airlines could lay off its entire workforce”
What’s the Czechout time?
I wonder if there are any homeless people in Mianus.
Could there be an insurrection in Mianus?
Regarding the defense of learning by travel… reminded me of the monologue from Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting. Worth rewatching for that alone.