News and notes from around the interweb:
- Carl Icahn could buy all of JetBlue. His history with TWA is infamous.
JetBlue has until Spring to come up with a viable plan for the future and if not, Icahn seems to be able to withdraw his board members and launch a tender offer after 30 days.
- The answer will surprise you.
You will travel across North America, and onto the Atlantic Ocean. Eventually, you will hit another country.
What is the first country you hit?
— Fin Moorhouse (@finmoorhouse) January 7, 2024
- Notes on Azerbaijan
- The story of how I ended up borderline naked in the airport
TSA has now pulled me into the back room, made me take off all my clothing aside from my shorts and sports bra, and made me hand over my phone while they patted me down as they asked me 100 security questions.
There I am, standing there in my pink nike socks that they also eventually had me remove as they scanned me with their little wand thing, asking me what my parents’ birthdays are and where my very first address was located.
- Woman Who Refused to Give Up Seat to Wheelchair User in Empty Airport Terminal Faces Backlash
- A retiring Lufthansa captain performs wing wave with an A380 full of passengers for its last flight out of LAX
@airplane.spotterlax Pilot Christian Pokorski last flight for out LAX, Big maneuvering you wont belive it #a380 #lufthansa #retirement #fyp #takingoffa380 #losangeles #california #foryoupage ♬ original sound – Airplane Spotter - Since United Airlines has the largest number of connecting passengers in Denver, they should use the airport’s farthest gates, to reduce pressure on an airport train system that isn’t up to the task of moving people where they need to go.
I fail to understand why the person waiting at a gate was asked to move when there were many vacant seats ?
If he went east from Seattle , would he end up in France ?
Or maybe…hear me out here…just maybe, Denver should’ve put walking tunnels between terminals to give pax better gate connection options.
The woman’s TSA story is misleading and incomplete. Forgetting your ID is resolved by answering questions that only the pax would know, with the TSA on the phone to a resolution desk. If additional screening is needed it doesn’t require taking off clothes unless there is an additional significant anomaly that has to be addressed.
@Alert – Simple, let the emotion roll over you and the outrage form. Clickbait smart-bomb has hit the target.
I looked up the woman who forgot her ID. Hate to tell her they didn’t strip her because they were concerned she was hiding something…….
The UA problem at Denver isn’t all that different to the Delta problem at Atlanta. My connecting flights are always something like arriving at Concourse T and departing out of Concourse E with 30 minutes to somehow make that happen despite the sea of people in the concourses and trying to get on the train. You’d think that keeping connecting flights in nearby gates and neighboring concourses would be a priority
From what I know Denver is redoing their train system. Look forward to a better, more reliable service to and from the concourses.
If Icahn wants to buy JetBlue, fine. The government should let him do it it…
…provided he renames JetBlue to TWA so that history can truly repeat itself…
“Blue Horse Shoe Loves JetBlue”
JetBlue’s days as an independent carrier are slowly, but surely coming to an end. The airline has never been able to run a clean operation. It doesn’t know what it wants to be. Some days, it wants to be a full service carriers. Others, a true LCC. If Icahn gets a controlling stake in JetBlue, he will sell off the assets and so do quickly, which would remake JFK considerably, with American taking the largest slice of B6’s assets, followed by United.
He destroyed what was left of TWA after he took it over. I remember the day well that his takeover was announced. I was in the air on way to London, with flight attendants hanging bedsheets up as screens to show movies.Thats how bad it had become with old TWA management. Stews were overjoyed he was taking over. All thought he would be the savior of mighty TWA. What a joke. Few years later after moving headquarters to Westchester County NY and gradual dismantling he sold it to AA. Gone with the wind. Dustbin of history. Yeah, he’ll do a fabulous job with JetBlue. Pray it does not happen.
I believe due east of Seattle, you’d hit Portugal first.