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News and notes from around the interweb:
- British Airways has changed the new business class bedding they’re planning to use because “allegedy … that the original design failed a safety test. Apparently the navy colour was too close to the colour of the carpets in the Club World cabins. This meant that it was deemed a trip hazard..”
Announced Just Two Months Ago, This Is Already Out - TSA gets to sell the items they steal from you
- The Drop app is offering $2 per $1000 back on payments made with Plastiq bill payment service that sends checks and charges your credit card.
- Mistake airfares and hotel rates.
Airline industry analyst Gary Leff thinks mistake fares were more common a decade ago. Before the well dried up in 2009, though, he enjoyed some luxuries that were downright stupid, at costs lower than an Uber ride to the airport
..Leff, who scored his first mistake fare purchase in 2002 — a mouthwatering $55 business class ticket to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico — notes that airlines still post mistake fares, but you might be luckier if you’re searching for glitches in hotel prices.
For every airline that has upgraded its software to zap mistake fares and curtail a financial hemorrhage, “plenty of airlines around the world just aren’t adept at using the tools at their disposal,” Leff says.
- 30 Day Time Lapse at Sea:
- Richard Quest films a love letter to United Polaris. The seats are a huge improvement for United, though Quest erroneously suggests the retrofit will be complete in 2020. Still it was a fun watch.
Meanwhile, the business class on most of United’s aircraft… via Jeff W.)
That “love letter” was more like a paid advert for United. United’s J product arguably lags both AA and DL in quality *and* it’s very late to the game. It’ll be passe before it’s even done being rolled out. I’m embarrassed for CNN and Richard that they were so over-flattering of a barely-middle-of-the-road business class (hard) product.