News and notes from around the interweb:

• An Arab American comedian sat next to Donald Trump, Jr. on a transatlantic flight. When you’re a comic, sometimes Allah gives you your 15 minutes of fame.

• Should we hope for really bad weather when we travel?

• Australia and China have agreed on Open Skies.

• Wyndham Visa 45,000 point signup offer is back and that’s enough for 3 nights at any property or the per-bedroom cost in 17,000 places.

  
  Firestone Estate Vacation Rental Palm Springs, credit: Wyndham

• Here’s a video explaining the ‘five freedoms’ of airline traffic rights, along with freedoms six through nine.

• Really impressive. Photographer Mike Kelley took images of full day’s aircraft movements from a single vantage point at each of 20 different airports around the globe. Here’s Sydney. Check out the rest.