News and notes from around the interweb:
- Along with telling people on Spirit Airlines how to dress, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants airlines to stop serving cookies and pretzels in favor of healthier snacks. Does he realize he has a choice whether to eat them or not, and can bring his own snacks?
“I would love some better snacks. I would love a little healthier snack on the airplane,” Duffy said …it would be much better “if I didn’t get the really fattening cookie full of butter, sugar and crap. Or that little snack pack of pretzels.”
- Chase is surveying a premium Aeroplan card. The Air Canada portfolio seems like it should be pretty small – almost too small for Chase to care about! – but like the Hyatt card this one hits above its weight relative to the size of the program in the U.S. market. And their new Hyatt deal anticipates a premium card there as well.
- Maybe he could focus on making airport shoe shines great again? Those shoe shine shops rarely seem staffed anymore. They’re where I used to get my shoes shined. Not a lot of options in Austin, at least that don’t require downtown parking and leaving shoes for a week. Now I look forward to shoe shines at better downtown hotels in large cities.
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport pic.twitter.com/lDP1DYQF0Q
— derek guy (@dieworkwear) November 26, 2025
Except…
DISGUSTING!! What sort of person walks BAREFOOT down a plane aisle — in first class, no less. Even worse, it was on his way to the toilet!
RFK Jr is a really strange dude. pic.twitter.com/tQXdYUtGfz
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) November 13, 2023
- United is making a huge investment in wine. They keep talking up their food investment, too, but I don’t know anyone that thinks they’re doing a great job in long haul business there.
So my first “meal” had a metal ring in it. Besides completely dried out fruit can you even identify this entre @united ? This was disgusting and @united should be embarrassed to serve this in Business class. Thousands of dollars for literal, unidentifiable slop- wow. pic.twitter.com/rWadE0Ke1v
— L (@EyesWideWhat) November 26, 2025
- Planes need to be cleaned between flights.
@SouthwestAir Do y’all not clean the planes anymore? Boarding from Nashville to San Jose. Gross. pic.twitter.com/3ZBUJMNwi2
— Sean Smith (@smith155130) November 25, 2025
- Airline not earning the fare they charged. Carriers advertise and sell premium products, then fall back on ‘we were just selling transportation and you got that’. Some say ‘what, did you want them to delay the flight?’ (1) They should have systematically addressed the problem earlier, such as overnight, and (2) if a passenger gets stuck with this they should be refunded with deep apology. Y’all think I’m crazy but I will continue to believe this.
@AmericanAir this is not complaining. Just hope to have a better experience overall in all international flights. Especially in premium cabins pic.twitter.com/KM1DgeIjOL
— Goblin Spy (@goblinspy) November 25, 2025
Diehard libertarians can’t stand about the only sensible thing this Administration with regards to Americans’ health.
good idea.
Doesn’t Duffy have better things to do then rail against airtime snacks? Who does he think he is? RFK Jr.?
@1990 – I’m sure they’ll use all the savings they got from killing off the EU261 equivalent to provide healthier snacks, right? Because that’s how capitalism works?
@Peter — “Let them eat Biscoff!”
I like the idea of healthier snacks on planes.
I don’t think the Federal Government should have anything to do with airline snacks, but what is the deal with Biscoff cookies? Does anyone actually want these? I have never once in my life been offered a Biscoff cookie outside of an airplane. Nobody buys these. There are so many better cookies out there. Why does every airline give us Biscoffs?
What does he think a healthier snack is in the USA?
Apples? What a mess that would make on planes that are never cleaned.
There are no healthy snacks in the USA. They are full of crap.
Maybe they could install a bunch of air popped popcorn machines or a salad bar.
A reality TV star running the Transportation is frightening. But yes, Americans are slobs.
People pay more for seats up front but the idea that they will get a premium product for the extra cash is just a crap shoot on USA airlines. Usually all they can expect is to have a good whine.