News and notes from around the interweb:
- Tragic, and also reinforces my irrational fear of helicopters (I still take them occasionally).
NEW: A Delta Air Lines regional pilot has been killed on his wedding day after the helicopter taking him and his wife to their honeymoon crashed in bad weather.
Dave Fiji, 25, was tragically killed on his wedding day after the Robinson R66 carrying the groom and his wife, Jesni,… pic.twitter.com/vzlLk5P4Vi
— Breaking Aviation News & Videos (@aviationbrk) June 1, 2026
- A lot of pilots do have side gigs. Insurance was popular at one time. Now, though?
absolutely wild, founders could learn a thing or two from this pic.twitter.com/v5oZ2KT6mx
— james hawkins (@james406) May 31, 2026
- I’m jealous, not that I would need this… widespread $50,000 credit limits with Bilt cards now, someone reports they got bumped to $250,000. (I was increased only to my old Wells Fargo limit, which is what we’d been told was supposed to happen from the outset, and that wasn’t one of my higher-limit cards.)
- American Airlines did not earn the full fare that the customer paid, because they did not provide the product that they advertised. Airlines disagree, but I will die on this hill.
@AmericanAir Just took off on a 10 hour flight and the tray table is taped shut and broken. How am I supposed to eat or drink? This is really disappointing pic.twitter.com/jNv4CecHGo
— Will Armstrong (@williamqarmstro) May 31, 2026
- I have been complaining about this for more than a decade and American is worse at this than others. It’s clear that a flight won’t – can’t – board on time but they don’t update flight times until the original time has passed. That wastes customer time, since unless they’re watching the inbound aircraft, they leave the lounge (that American got paid more for access to!) early and stand around less able to work at the gate.
Why does @AmericanAir lie to its passengers? There is a 0% chance we are boarding in 13 minutes when the plane is still 22 minutes away. #americanairlines #behonest #wtf pic.twitter.com/UmDJ7QoC6r
— CraftBeerSpots-AVL (@BeerSpotsAVL) May 30, 2026
- 20% bonus on transferring Amex points to Marriott through June 30th. Might as well light your points on fire.
- El Al will resume the San Francisco – Tel Aviv route October 25. It was suspended early in Covid.
United is really taking it to American.
Seat back TVs
TATL J awards for 80k miles without nosebleed copays
and now
Greater transparency around delays. This is such an irritant to AA fliers, management is tone deaf on the issue. United is speaking to AA passengers when they doubt the delay transparency.