News and notes from around the interweb:
- SFO and Oakland airports have settled their trademark dispute. Oakland airport can use the ‘San Francisco Bay’ name but only as long as Oakland goes first. So they get Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport. (Also, no hyphen or slash Oakland / San Francisco Bay Airport. And they cannot seek an IATA code containing SF, and no keyword advertising with the SFO/San Francisco name.)
If Oakland or San Francisco sees non-compliant third-party use, Oakland must use reasonable efforts to correct it excluding trivial personal social media posts. I might just start taunting them referring to San Francico’s Oakland Airport.
- Richmond airport is talking up a potential Capital One lounge
RIC Chief Growth Officer Martin Rubinstein told the commission that the airport has had discussions with a third-party company that builds lounges for Capital One, which operates its own branded lounges at seven domestic airports: New York City’s LaGuardia and JFK airports, D.C.’s Dulles International and Reagan National airports, and in Las Vegas, Denver and Dallas. An eighth is planned for Charlotte.
“We’re exploring options that could allow for Capital One branding at (RIC), because even though we are very small compared to the other airports that have Capital One branding, we have the Capital One offices here,” Rubinstein said.
“When we have international flights and Capital One employees flying out of this airport, they will probably want to see that here, so we think we have a good rationale for that conversation to happen,” he added, referencing the airport’s ongoing effort to bring a direct European flight to RIC.
- 20% transfer bonus from Capital One to Qantas through May 31. This is potentially useful to me wiht all my Venture X points, and because Qantas makes a lot more premium cabin award space available to its own members than it does to its partner programs (and that helps me visit my family in Australia).
- 20% transfer bonus from Chase to Air France KLM Flying Blue through May 27. This is the best program in SkyTeam, though fuel surcharges were recently raised, still one of the better opportunities for business class awards over the Atlantic.
- 65% transfer bonus from Chase to Marriott through May 15 and then 55% May 16 – June 30. You’re still only getting about a penny a point in value with the bonus. It’s possible that there can be a use case for the offer, but it’ll be rare to be worthwhile since Marriott points themselves aren’t worth a ton (perhaps 2/3rds of a cent apiece to start with) and base transfers are only 1:1.This is… not worth it.
- No, that is not at all what ’86’ means in this context. It means ‘James Comey is being unjustly prosecuted’. And 86 means get rid of, get him out of office, at least it has many meanings and context matters. The Comey indictment will almost certainly be dismissed.
Meet Matt Doogen, he’s a pilot for @united.
He just changed his cover photo on Facebook to “8647” which is known to symbolize kiIIing Trump.
Would you feel safe with him flying your plane?
Any comment @united ? pic.twitter.com/ANXoNFs5Wc
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 29, 2026
- I shared last week that American won back 3 gates at Chicago O’Hare in the preliminary determination by the airport. I managed to FOIA the notice and the exhibits showing the current and new allocations. I figured this would be of interest to some of you.
Current allocation:
Tentative redetermination:
Oh, Oakland… I’ll never forget the smell when driving west across the Bay Bridge… *not a good smell*
Well said, Gary, on the vindictive prosecution. Funny, because I recall these guys claiming to be ‘free speech absolutists’ and also wanting to end ‘lawfare’ only to spitefully abuse it, more than anyone ever has before. Psh.
Also, well done on the FOIA findings. Good for American. Put Scott in his place. Bah! (Wonder how @O’Hare Is My Second Home feels about this…)
If millions and millions of people wore, wrote and said those 4 numbers every day it would show unity and strength in the face of a wannabee dictator and his minions. But then consider a lot of the propaganda movies featuring Germans that Hollywood churned out during World War 2. It really doesn’t take much to make people like that look ridiculous. Just play on how they behave.
Of course that’s what 86 means, and all the brainwashed violent leftists retards you are training with your rhetoric got the message. 3 assassination attempts now. Charlie Kirk assassinated. Multiple trans mass shooters. Violent leftists attacking anyone who disagrees with them on a daily basis.
This post was after two assassination attempts, mind you. Everyone knew what he meant, wink wink. A reasonable person wouldn’t assume your side suddenly wants to remove him peacefully right after winning a democratic election (you know, that democracy thing you’re all prattling on about)in a landslide. You can’t be this willfully ignorant.
By the way, it’s funny your side can go to a no kings rally, attendees can’t even articulate why they think he’s acting like a king(attending a no kings protest in an actual monarchy would not end well for you btw) , but then fawn over an actual king’s speech. Are you people seriously this retarded?
Well since nobody else is replying I might as well say something, not that it matters. First of all, the White House posted of a picture of His Majesty Charles III standing with Don and labeled it, “Two Kings”, so that says a lot about who he thinks he is equal to. The difference is that Britain has a real leader who cares about people, the environment, and anything other than himself, and isn’t afraid to say so either. And starting pointless wars on a “gut feeling”, demanding unquestioning loyalty from his court, or stripping the legal protections from those in his country is what an absolute monarch would do. Anyway, there certainly are pro-republican groups in the modern European monarchies; there were rallies in Spain and Britain this spring and nobody was jailed or beheaded.
As for assassination attempts, you can always find crazies, starting with the maniac who attacked Pelosi’s husband or the guy who killed Minnesota legislators. Oh, and 97% of mass shootings are committed by cisgender males, while the leading cause of under-18 deaths in the U.S. is from gunshots. But I seriously doubt if members of the Trump cult are pro-life enough to look at themselves, let alone gun control.
All of the “assassination” attempts have either been staged or by disillusioned MAGA idiots. Just because Mantis doesn’t leave his house because he’s afraid of violent blue haired social justice warriors doesn’t mean everyone else has to be. Change the channel.
@1990: If there was a bad smell in the air as you drove west across the Bay Bridge, doesn’t that mean that the odor was coming from San Francisco?
So this is the leftist response. Richard the retard thinks trump trolling you idiots is somehow proof of him being a king? I hope someday you realize how stupid you are . Or the biggest retard saying that it’s staged. So trump is now enlisting Kamala donor retard teachers to sacrifice themselves for him? Stunningly stupid. You leftists seem to want a civil war with your constant political violence , trust me, you don’t. You will lose it and quickly.
I’m still waiting for them to rename LAX to “Sh*t Hole by the Sea”
@ Mantis — Bless your heart.
Again, the only “assassination” attempts were carried out by Republicans. “Leftists” will be glad when all these fascist agitators are in jail or in the ground but the only violent civil war that’s brewing is within MAGA. You can tell how much Mantis loves America by how much he hates everyone in it.
@Joshua K. — Oh, got my directions messed up, going east after the bridge in Oakland. Oof. Haha.