News and notes from around the interweb:
- United and Delta are donating flights to re-unite immigrant families
- More Wells Fargo misbehavior, with their wealthier clients (emphasis mine):
Among employees, 2015 became known as “the year of the annuity” because advisers would push clients into these higher-fee products to meet their revenue targets. Some advisers would redeem clients from annuities that had large surrender charges and place them into another product with annual fees of 1% to 1.5%, a practice known as churning, employees said.
Copyright: jetcityimage / 123RF Stock Photo - RIP, Virgin America.
Virgin America Safety Film being retired next week so our flight attendant danced it for us… 🕺🤭🤩#VXForever pic.twitter.com/DHYZ7xLceG
— 👨🏻💻☕️ (@hunterwalk) July 28, 2018
- Amelia Earhart “called for help for nearly a week before her plane was swept out to sea.” The “airplane [was] not floating around in the water because the radios would be wet, it wouldn’t work.”
- British Airways will no longer skip over customers who order special meals when offering operational upgrades.
- Alaska Airlines delivered missing luggage by helicopter