News and notes from around the interweb:
- Ouch. That’s gotta hurt.
[DEN][DFW] baggage cart hit the plane and got wedged under the tail
byu/OstentatiousIt inamericanairlines - Got this offer from Mesa ‘for members approved before June 22, 2025’ and only available to the first 500 who register: spend $7,000 or more between June 25, 2025 and September 30, 2025 – excluding transactions identified as quasi-cash like gift cards or money orders – to earn 52,025 bonus points. The 3x spend I have set up to earn points for my mortgage will meet this naturally. I don’t love customer service on this card, but that’s a great deal.
- Bilt’s July 1 Rent Day offer is up to 100% bonus redeeming for gift cards (100% for Platinums, 75% for Golds, 50% for Silvers and 25% for base members). They’ll be giving away free pigs in blankets at the ground floor coffee shop in their New York headquarters office. Plus, ‘all of the things’ they do each month (dining, comedy, bonus points for card spend etc.)
- I finally got to try the new American Airlines tapas box. It’s the new food for sale item along with the beef sandwich, which I’ve had twice now – genuinely disgusting (soaking wet) the first time, better but not good the second. Until now my flights haven’t had the tapas box boarded. Honestly they did a good job with it. It’s not usually what I want to eat, but it’s a bountiful box of different tastes and does the job for a snack if you’ve got nothing else.
- American Airlines now makes announcements onboard at the start of the flight about headphones being mandatory in such cases.
@AmericanAir this man refused to move to his seat and sat here playing his phone out loud the entire flight from DFW to LAX this morning. Why didn’t you do anything? pic.twitter.com/VPOoQ2PrLn
— Travel77 (@Noel77DLBIA) June 25, 2025
They do not, however, make such announcements in their lounges. Who knew that was necessary? I’m starting to think that when I complain about the airline, we’re just getting the airline we deserve.
@AmericanAir this woman. No manners. Doesn’t understand headphones pic.twitter.com/Rz5O3C9oEK
— Michelle LaMontagne (@mlamontagne15) June 25, 2025
- Bear on runway forces airport in Japan to cancel flights: “We’re in a stalemate” “Airport staff used a car to chase it away and closed the runway again, with the bear still at large somewhere in the facility.” (HT: Joe)
That looked expensive!
@L737 — As Chairman Koji on the Iron Cook said: “Dat sword cost five tousan dollu!” (Futurama)
No headphone in the lounges, including the Flagship lounge is a real thing. It tends to be Boomers or children whose parents are too busy getting sloshed on the free booze. I think flight attendants are pretty strict in flight as they should be.
Well, that’s a tug, not a baggage cart. Driving under aircraft is strictly prohibited. Someone just lost their job.
Did they just copy the United snackboxes or has United now pistachios in their boxes, too? Gary doesn’t fly United often enough to know their offerings?
@1990 — …Fry did it (wooo-woo-ooo-oooo) Classic.
Unrelated note: got an email from Southwest the other day that everyone else got about the next iteration of the companion pass promotion. Used to be so excited for those…
Agree it’s becoming more of a problem in lounges. Should put up a big sign at every entrance with a picture of headphones that says “PLEASE USE HEADPHONES”. Not just an AA thing.
Glad the Tapas box is good! Reminds me of some B6 snack box offerings which I’ve always found good.
@Bill Reim: There’s like two providers who do all of these snack boxes. The vast majority of them for any airline come from Oakfield Farms which was bought by LSG. That’s why you see basically minor variations of the same thing… Swap the cheese for hummus and the brownie brittle for wafer bites and you have the Tapas-like box that Sun Country has (and all the same brands).
I almost cheered aloud in Denver the other day in the United Club when an agent walked over to a man laying on a sofa and told him feet needed to be in his shoes and on the floor or he was welcome to leave the club.
@Bill Reim – American doesn’t need to be creative here, copying United or Alaska would be a huge win. Flew four American segments this week, but will be on United in about 36 hours. (In the middle of traveling 11 out of 12 weeks.)