News and notes from around the interweb:
- Baggage Handler For Major US Airline Faked Military Service Documents To Get Years Off Work, Taking 130 Free Flights And Even Getting a Second Job As An Air Marshal
A baggage handler who got a job at a major US airline in the New York area used fake military service documents to get extended periods of time off work while still using his free flight benefits, taking 130 free or heavily discounted flights to luxury destinations like Aruba, Grand Cayman, Turks and Caicos, and St. Maarten.
…Dior even managed to get a job as a Federal Air Marshal while still employed as a baggage handler, balancing the two jobs by taking fraudulent military leave, Acting U.S. Attorney Matthew Podolsky has alleged.
- British Airways pilot back in the skies after snorting drugs off woman’s breasts before flight The BA first officer put details of a Johannesburg substance-fueled orgy in writing in a series of texts to a flight attendant before trying to work the trip home. She reported it and the flight was cancelled. He was drug tested on arrival back in London and fired.
He’d texted the details of being “a very naughty boy” on his layover when he went out to a club. You might think, why did he confess? But he wasn’t confessing, he was bragging. Now he flies for European Cargo.
- United Airlines bans rideable bags
- Maybe a union wouldn’t make service worse on Delta, after all? Delta flight attendants still wouldn’t be better off with one. They’d have to pay for it, and they’d earn less. Delta is willing to pay a premium to keep cabin crew non-union, and earns more because of it and therefore pays out more profit sharing. A union at Delta would lower wages. Truthfully, this crewmember is an outlier, though there are too many outliers:
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- Not surprising. It’s one of the routes that’s often easiest to get decent award pricing, as well. There’s way too much passenger capacity (4 airlines!). But cargo on this route is very valuable (“Taiwan Semiconductor”).
Delta One Suites upgrade offer SEA-TPE window seats A359 plane!
byu/schwa12 inDeltaAirlines - Nickel and dimed: Are Las Vegas casinos pushing visitors to a tipping point? I’d put it differently. Outside of catering to super high spenders, for the most part Nickel and dimed: Are Las Vegas casinos pushing visitors to a tipping point Vegas hotels no longer feel like they are in the hospitality business and that is true across all other price points.
But think of all of those travel memories (sarcasm).
Interesting story on rideable suitcases, I saw a small kid on one in the Austin Airport within the past 8 weeks ! Of course, that was nothing compared to that tourist in Bangkok, who rode one to the airport on the main road going into it, and went viral on TikTok. The Lithium battery packs must be a decent size, so no surprise that they would be banned on aircraft. Keep an eye on Temu dumping millions of them for cheap in the days ahead !
On SEA-TPE Delta awards. I got 2 Delta One tickets for 83,000 Skymiles each last month. Gladly take it for a 14 hour flight. One of the few routes where Delta One international flight is reasonably priced.
As flor Las Vegas. I get comped on hotel and other things but agree it has gotten very expensive ($20 drinks 1 ounce pour is many casino bars). On the other hand I believe in supply and demand. As long as hotels have 90%+ on weekends and companies are making record profits why should they cut costs. Keep raising prices as long as people will pay. At some point t they won’t then prices will come down.