News and notes from around the interweb:
- Stop it already.
@AmericanAir
Do betterForced to check bags when all the overheads are empty.
Terrible customer service. pic.twitter.com/RPF0ZF7kkR
— Brun⭕ (@cbruno33) September 24, 2025
- First-time Rakuten shopping portal users get $50 (or 5,000 Amex points) for spending $50 at any of its merchants. The easy, quick win before this offer ends September 30th is just to go to GiftCards.com through the portal and buy a $50 gift card for Uber, DoorDash, Southwest Airlines or Delta.
I prefer Membership Rewards points – link an eligible Amex card and set Rakuten to pay out in points. But this is essentially a ‘free’ $50.
- Friends Make Major Mistake While Booking Their Airbnb, Then Have to Walk Across Bosnian Border with Suitcases
@abbypphotos We did in fact check in and check out of the Airbnb within one hour…. #justagirl #travel ♬ hate it or love it – favsoundds - Do you want to be the new Director of AAdvantage Strategy?
- United’s Globe Club and Lounge at Capital One Arena
- Troubling.
Someone on my flight is wearing these
byu/New-Account-0001 inwhatisit - The $3 billion-plus LAX Automated People Mover hasn’t made progress in a year. The project was approved in 2018, and has been delayed again to June 2026. Train cars have been arriving for more than three years and are all on-site.
A passenger was forced to gate check their bag while there was still bin space? This is news? This happens a thousand times a day, maybe more?
Hearing about carry-ons being force-checked at the gate, even when overheads appear to be available, is getting very old now……unless someone has a new and useful angle on it.
@David P, @Michael Harrison — This is Gary’s bread and butter. It’s practically a VFTW meme at this point. Embrace it!
@Gary – I know you probably love your current job, but can you please apply for the AA job? You could Make American Great Again…
@Doug — Oof. That ‘n’ in ‘American’ is doing a lot of work there. Does it come with a hat, too?