News and notes from around the interweb:
- 15 definitive rules for airport bars. It’s 5 o’clock somewhere. Pick the standalone bar for drinking, Buffalo Wild Wings for working. Let the bartender know your timeline and just talk to people… and be whomever you wish. Just don’t overserve yourself before the flight! (HT: Dan R.)
- Dropping its GDS surcharge has paid off for Hawaiian Airlines
- Heading to Florida’s East Coast vs. West Coast:
- TSA continues to argue unsuccessfully that screeners should not be held liable for raping or assaulting passengers
- Airlines will shut down program that sold your flight records to the government. They didn’t need a court order or any particularized suspicion – the airline-owned clearinghouse gave up your data for cash, and it was richer information than the PNRs that Homeland Security had access to already (and available to more agencies).
- The blow-by-blow between Marriott and Sonder that left guests kicked out of prepaid accommodations they’d booked at Marriott.com with no refunds and on the hook to find their own, more expensive lodging. (Skift)
- United has filed with the FAA for approval to put doors on business class suites on their Airbus A321XLRs. ‘Doors’ inside of an airline cabin aren’t normally allowed, because they could slow egress during an emergency evacuation. The regulation didn’t really anticipate individual seat doors, but installing these requires a formal exemption.
On that FL’s E. vs. W. coast video, apparently taken in LGA, Terminal C, yeah, and what brings ’em together? NYC.