News and notes from around the interweb:
- Stop it already.
@AmericanAir
Do betterForced to check bags when all the overheads are empty.
Terrible customer service. pic.twitter.com/RPF0ZF7kkR
— Brun⭕ (@cbruno33) September 24, 2025
- First-time Rakuten shopping portal users get $50 (or 5,000 Amex points) for spending $50 at any of its merchants. The easy, quick win before this offer ends September 30th is just to go to GiftCards.com through the portal and buy a $50 gift card for Uber, DoorDash, Southwest Airlines or Delta.
I prefer Membership Rewards points – link an eligible Amex card and set Rakuten to pay out in points. But this is essentially a ‘free’ $50.
- Friends Make Major Mistake While Booking Their Airbnb, Then Have to Walk Across Bosnian Border with Suitcases
@abbypphotos We did in fact check in and check out of the Airbnb within one hour…. #justagirl #travel ♬ hate it or love it – favsoundds - Do you want to be the new Director of AAdvantage Strategy?
- United’s Globe Club and Lounge at Capital One Arena
- Troubling.
Someone on my flight is wearing these
byu/New-Account-0001 inwhatisit - The $3 billion-plus LAX Automated People Mover hasn’t made progress in a year. The project was approved in 2018, and has been delayed again to June 2026. Train cars have been arriving for more than three years and are all on-site.
A passenger was forced to gate check their bag while there was still bin space? This is news? This happens a thousand times a day, maybe more?
Hearing about carry-ons being force-checked at the gate, even when overheads appear to be available, is getting very old now……unless someone has a new and useful angle on it.
@David P, @Michael Harrison — This is Gary’s bread and butter. It’s practically a VFTW meme at this point. Embrace it!
@Gary – I know you probably love your current job, but can you please apply for the AA job? You could Make American Great Again…
@Doug — Oof. That ‘n’ in ‘American’ is doing a lot of work there. Does it come with a hat, too?
It is good to keep harping on the empty overhead bin frustration in hopes that airlines will allow time for carryon bags in the boarding process.
The LAX story should have had an inquiry to the Mayor’s office. The Mayor’s office should be the agency getting the groups involved to move forward. Unfortunately the contractor is acting like most contractors, stalling instead of completing the job and usually it is about requesting a lot more money than the signed contract called for.