News and notes from around the interweb:
- But how did they find enough seating?
Text from a friend inside the JFK Centurion Lounge: “Tell me why there is a couple horizontal making out in the lounge”
— Kyle Potter (@kpottermn) October 13, 2024
Las Vegas Centurion Lounge Line - Wait for it…
This is arguably the single best explanation of anything ever given. He deserves a raise. pic.twitter.com/r3TOIp1gHs
— 9mmSMG (@9mm_smg) October 12, 2024
- Premium passengers only at this premium airline.
- Inside the Nasty Rivalry Rocking the World of Private Jets
The head of a private-jet company has been involved in a massive, often secret campaign to undermine his bitter rival. Now it’s spilling out into the open. (HT: @crucker)
- Mystery Drones Swarmed a U.S. Military Base for 17 Days. The Pentagon Is Stumped.
- Love lands at IAH as couple’s proposal takes flight with United Airlines’ help
Lounges have become highly overrated. Crowded, loud, dirty with fast food quality offerings. I’m an American AC member via the Citicorp Elite Mastercard (or whatever they call it) but that’s primarily for irregular operations when I might need help with a reroute. Even then I often make the change myself online and might need them to print a boarding pass if the mobile app doesn’t update.
Cringe people getting drunk and yelling to Jethro and Jed at home they’re in a lounge, kids running amuck while they’re getting plastered, lines for a bathroom stall and dirty dishes everywhere. Two people getting it on just goes with the current lounge ambience. The woman could at least ride on his lap to open up another seat.
The mystery drone mystery could be easily solved by getting a team from Israel to recover one. I would bet that Israel would be willing to do it.
Sheesh, how pathetic have we become that our military sites are buzzed by drones and we can’t and won’t do anything to stop it. Shoot the f###### things down already. And if the military is forbidden from doing so, go to Congress ASAP and tell then to change the stupid law and yell at everyone who voted for it in the first place.
When you say the couple was “caught” I thought they were 14 years old.
I don’t understand the following:
“One suggestion was to use directed energy, an emerging technology, to disable or destroy the drones. An FAA official said such a weapon carried too high a risk for commercial aircraft during the December holiday travel season.”
How can directed energy possibly affect commercial aircraft? Aren’t commercial aircraft prohibited from flying over the military bases and such?
Flight attendents should have the speed tape video on their company device to show the “oh my gosh, we’re held together by duct tape” crowd.
Gary Leff writes, “Couple Caught Making Out in the Centurion Lounge—The Real Shock? They Actually Found Seats!”
Gary, I agree. If this romantic couple were having doggie-style sex at the American Express Centurion lounge in Dallas, Miami, or Philadelphia, most cardmembers would have over a one-hour wait before entry. However, savvy AMEX cardholders pay up to $10,000 annually for the black American Express Centurion card so they can immediately pass through the velvet ropes at the entrance and enjoy lovemaking in the reserved areas of the lounge. As a further AMEX Centurion cardholder benefit, they can bring in two guests. to make a threesome. AMEX membership has its privileges.
I honest don’t understand how any one would care so much about an incident like this. Seems to me like there are travellers that will get triggered over the dumbest things and maybe they should be told to *Mind their own Business*