News and notes from around the interweb:
- Emergency Slide On Delta Air Lines Boeing 767 Accidentally Deploys On Top of a Catering Truck at London Gatwick Airport
Delta 767 accidentally deploys its slide from the 1R door on top of a catering truck at Gatwick Airport. No injuries reported.
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- The cheapest places to use your Amex $200 Fine Hotels & Resorts credit
going to the birds before but since American uses mouse-sized plates to control food cost it’s only fitting that this particular club have mice, too.Stay Classy PHL B/C Admirals Club
byu/MakersOnRocks inamericanairlines - American Air Pilots Cite ‘Significant Spike’ in Safety Problems
- The current General Motors headquarters features a Marriott hotel. They’re moving. The new corporate headquarters will feature an EDITION hotel. I wonder whether they’ll bring the racist cops with them to the new location?
- With talk of United bringing back more widespread Channel 9, this is how Delta responds with a more premium offering for first class:
Taking off with the cockpit door open is wild
byu/brooceweighn indelta - Some passengers bring chocolates, others give out Starbucks gift cards although technically that’s against the rules at many airlines. Do you give gifts to your flight attendants?
The goodie bags for flight attendants.
byu/ElectronicDrop inSouthwestAirlines - Canary Islands residents call for hunger strike to protest explosion of tourists
Why is Delta once again flying to Gatwick?
That is a premium emergency exit slide exclusively for Delta customers.
You’re welcome.
Although further from London than Heathrow, Gatwick is so much easier to navigate. There is a rail line into London as well. I only wish they flew to LGW from Atlanta.
How nice. The floor covering is colored to camouflage the mouse.
The APA memo about an increased number of maintenance oversights at AA is certain to raise the prospect of greater pause for safety esp. since there is an acknowledgement that the FAA could have chosen to audit AA instead of or in addition to UA.
someone failed to disarm the door at LGW.
Explosion of tourists? Mr. Creosote on the line one… (for Monty Python fans).
That little mouse is nothing. 30 or so years ago, walking through the TWA concourse in STL after waiting with my parents to board their delayed London flight, I saw a cat sitting on one of the gate counters (I think it was C24) but it wasn’t a cat it was a RAT, about 10 – 13 lbs worth eating the ticket printer paper.
The mouse is headed for the exit. He did not like the food.
Well, I gave my flight attendant a wedding ring…