News and notes from around the interweb:
- Working wheelchair assistance for a company like Prospect or PrimeFlight is a rough, low paying job but it doesn’t usually come with getting pounded by disembarking American Airlines passengers.
MIA to ATL fight breaks out. @AmericanAir @wsbtv pic.twitter.com/2IeIwIq7gx
— Peter Miralles (@pmiralles) August 19, 2024
- GHA Discovery triple rebates at Set Collection hotels Titaniums earn a whopping 21% back.
- 190 Flight Delays and 35 Canceled Flights at Shin-Chitose Airport in Hokkaido, Japan after pair of scissors gets lost (HT: One Mile at a Time)
- Marriott signs 20-year licensing deal with Sonder providing ‘urban apartment-style accommodations’ As Marriott CEO Jim Capuano once said, “When I die, they’ll put the net-rooms growth number on my tombstone.”
- Korean Air and Asiana have $2.6b in unredeemed miles reminder that if you transferred points into Korean before the end of the Chase partnership, those points turn into a pumpkin at the end of the year.
- $75 Uber credit for joining CLEAR for the first time, and of course Amex Platinum comes with a statement credit that covers the cost..
Looks like the wheelchair assistant was impeding and confronting the passengers – particularly the female passenger, at which point her traveling companion intervened. Obviously we don’t know what started the confrontation but I have noticed that the attendants can obstruct the jetway to the point of slowing down deplaning. In general, with more people bringing in more bags, deplaning has gotten slower in recent years…
The melee was atypical problem solving session.
I have typically not saved miles earned with Asian airlines unless I had a way to redeem some against the price of a ticket because I don’t accumulate them fast enough to get free flights. The only one I have with stranded miles is Singapore Airlines. The miles earned are directed toward USA airline mileage programs, even those I typically don’t fly, in the hopes of having enough for a free flight in the future.
Air travel has morphed into rapid transit in the US.
Continued rise of the feral humans.
Certainly looks like the wheelchair attendant was blocking the way and people weren’t happy with it.
To Anthony and Loren I am retired and now work seasonal as a wheelchair attendant. He was not impending or in the way. Wheelchair units need to be in the jetway to meet the incoming disabled passengers who are unable to walk at the jetway where else would you think the the I have a little patience planning wheelchair attendant should stand? Let’s use some common sense and have a little patience when deplaning. Anyone checking luggage is going to have to wait in the baggage area 20 to 30 minutes anyway to get their bags.
@H2O man and @Cmorgan … +1 and +1 .
On the Korean Air front it’s really disheartening how the airline has been so meticulous about not offering first class award space – even to their own members.