News and notes from around the interweb:
- They’re trying to tag AOC with hypocrisy for living it up in… the luxury of American Airlines first class from Austin to New York?
- Airline passengers, as explained by their pants (HT: Paul H) E.g.,
Pajama Bottoms: Will be flying either to or from a city with a Señor Frog’s.
Sweatpants with Dallas Mavericks Logo: Will clog one or more bathrooms.
…Swim Trunks: Will be escorted off plane by federal air marshal for doing something gross to the beverage cart.
- Chuck Schumer is working on a solution to the pilot shortage. Sort of reminds me of Bill Clinton’s pivot to school uniforms.
Senate Majority Leader Schumer promises action on the pilot shortage. https://t.co/4VUjtlvAcy
— Ethan Klapper (@ethanklapper) February 18, 2022
- The American Airlines Flagship lounge at Dallas – Fort Worth will re-open March 2, with Flagship First Dining re-opening March 3. They plan to re-open the Chicago O’Hare Flagship lounge in “spring.”
- My home town of Austin gets even more American Airlines with Orange County and Bozeman, Montana seasonal flights and the return of Fort Walton Beach.
- Water issues aside, don’t drink the onboard coffee
The Paddle your Own Canoe article titled, The Disgusting Reason United Airlines Flight Attendants Throw Pots of Coffee in the Garbage Can
they write, “A huge number of airlines order flight attendants to pour unwanted liquids like juice, milk and coffee down the lavatory.
To avoid splashing coffee and orange juice on the aircraft toilet seat and further risking cross-contamination of “blue juice” in passenger beverages, at United Airlines, safety is their top priority. I have two recommendations:
Recommendation 1: In the galley, fill a box with clumping kitty litter. Then, pour the discarded coffee, orange juice, and other liquids into the kitty litter.
Recommendation 2: Award 1,000 MileagePlus frequent flyer miles to passengers for every cup they consume of United Airlines coffee. Award 1,000 bonus MileagePlus miles when they pee their beverage into a first-class or coach cabin aircraft lavatory.
Is the coffee that bad?
You are covering AOC & Chuck Schumer Both on the opposite sides when it comes to Mid East Politics. Let me see if Chuck has taken any Flights in First Class?
So AOC flew F on AA from Austin to NYC, reports that august notable journal, The New York Post.
The reporter obviously needs to get out more, and fly some!
Flying domestic AA First on a 738 is hardly going to dent her liberal (or ‘socialist’ as the NYT prefers) credentials.
No civilized human being is gonna want to sit in coach on AA if it can be avoided.