News and notes from around the interweb:
- The airline whose pilots and flight attendants are afraid to come to work
- Starwood had double posted (and more) elite stay and night credit for co-brand credit card holders. Now it appears they’ve reversed those stays and nights credited in error.
- 500 bonus United miles for spending $200 through their shopping portal. And the same offer with American. (HT: Doctor of Credit)
- Retiring American Airlines pilot wrote a letter to passengers sharing how grateful he is.
Captain on my LAX-DFW flight this morning was piloting the last leg of his 33-year career. His family was in first class, and inside of the plane was festooned with streamers & balloons.
In Dallas, we were greeted by a celebratory arch of water cannons on the tarmac. Touching. pic.twitter.com/qIsnzonO9B— Sam Farmer (@LATimesfarmer) January 28, 2018
- New Smithsonian video on the 1988 Trans-Colorado crash at Durango La Plata Airport. (HT: World Airline News)
- Cathay Pacific’s new foray into yoga.
The Smithsonian video didn’t show anything about the outcome of the crash investigation or any specific details, other than the plane took off and crashed. So many details omitted.
“The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the first officer’s flying and the captain’s ineffective monitoring of an unstabilized approach which resulted in a descent below the published descent profile. Contributing to the accident was the degradation of the captain’s performance resulting from his use of cocaine before the accident.”
Seems like the Smithsonian would want a more complete accounting of the flight…I wonder why they even bothered to create the reenactment if they knew it was going to be so badly done.
Amen, what’s the point of this?
Seems to me that perhaps being able to see the airport rather than having only instrument readings out of Denver would be relevant.
Nothing from this pointless little re-enactment shows anything out of order until the very last minute.
So duh. Btw, I grew up in Durango. This flight/crash meant a lot to the people there.
Well done Captain . A life well lived .