News and notes from around the interweb:
- American Airlines Snack Basket and Food for Purchase changes.
AA: snack changes pic.twitter.com/mKtePjs40A
— 🇺🇦 JonNYC 🇺🇦 (@xJonNYC) August 10, 2022
- The original Motel 6, now $400+ per night
- O’Hare Airport’s Beagles Are The Best In The Biz At Sniffing Out Illegal Food and they get paid in cookies
- Truth.
This lady just whispered “Spirit” when the shuttle driver asked her which airline she and her man are flying. Baby I know you shamed but say it with your chest 😭😂. You getting to your destination by any means necessary and I respect that. 😭😂
— Young Terrance Cadbury (@TerryDugas) August 3, 2022
- Qantas adding 30 minutes to domestic-to-international minimum connection times at Sydney and Melbourne and says it will pay hotel costs for any forced overnights that result from required schedule changes in existing reservations.
- Scottish hotel institutes service charge and passes money onto employees, who are crying foul because they liked tipping better. (HT: @crucker)
It said that bar and restaurant staff have found that they are between £200 and £300 pounds a month worse off since the hotel management introduced a 10% service charge in January.
Unite is now calling for a new “Tips Committee” made up of bar and restaurant staff to oversee the “democratic and proportionate” distribution of service charges and card tips.
- Under Taliban rule, Ariana Afghan Airlines bans women from serving as flight attendants.
- Will travel be less adventurous, even in the medium-term? It will take awhile before people re-adjust their priors to return to South Asia in large numbers, let alone farther afield or more ‘exotic’ destinations.
Can’t AA just offer mainstream snacks in the damn snack basket already. Enough with the vegan stuff. How about some good old fashioned Goldfish? Or pretzels?
Airlines I am unlikely to fly = Ariana Afghan Airlines
The kettle chips remain, let’s just hope they’re a real size now. The current .5 oz air + crumbs bag is an embarrassment. I’ve had FAs apologize in advance and hand out 1-2 extra bags. It’s frustrating and wasteful catering space wise/environmentally
The lady may not want to admit she flies Spirit but she might have had a better chance of getting to her destination on time than if she flew other airlines over the past couple days. Thunderstorms on the east coast have caused persistent and long ATC delays which yesterday extended at times from Atlanta to Boston as well as both Dallas and Houston airports. AUS had its own non-weather meltdown as well. AA cancelled 10% if its flights systemwide and is near that percent already today. B6 and WN both have over 30% of their flights delayed yesterday and WN cancelled 6% and B6 3% of flights. UA consistently is cancelling 4-5% of EWR flights in advance. The best airline for east coast yesterday was DL and its regional carriers with less than 1% of flights cancelled and the best on-time of the big east coast airlines.
So, maybe the lady should have waited until she arrived and then she might have been able to brag about getting there which alot of other airlines weren’t able to do. I suspect some of those people on cancelled flights on other carriers would have accepted an operating flight with 29 inch pitch. Spirit’s strategy of having very few cities with very high numbers of flights is an advantage with bad weather and ATC delays, including due to ATC staffing.
Beagle got me at ORD years ago. A forgotten apple from the plane. Just sat down beside me. I was coming in from AMS, I thought, shit, now what.
DL still offering hot meals over 900 miles vs AA over 1299, and it doesn’t help either that DFW is much easier to fit within 1299 than ATL is from 900.