News and notes from around the interweb:

• JetBlue told employees they’re considering flying to Hawaii (using aircraft with business class)

  

• How Airbnb is changing Himalayan villages (HT: Marginal Revolution)

  In Himalayan villages like mine, there is deep social uncertainty because of Airbnb and other online marketplaces. The opportunity cost of doing business with one’s nephews and cousins is now high. There is the real problem of nephews who run away on the flimsiest of pretexts. The stakes are higher, and there is much to gain by trading with outsiders. You can’t even run Airbnbs well without breaking free from closed relationships with your family and tribe, and forming spontaneous relationships with strangers.

• This is accurate, more or less.

  Ali Wong’s guide to evaluating the quality of Asian restaurants is a must read and I refuse to eat with my non-Asian friends until they have read this and incorporated it into the very core of their being pic.twitter.com/GtK28WxWLI

  — David Chen (@davechensky) October 17, 2019

• The re-opening of Chicago O’Hare’s light rail is being delayed again

• What air traffic controllers do.

  Happy International Day of the Air Traffic Controller ✈️ How much do you know about what they do day to day? Here's a video explaining the important role they play in keeping the skies safe, everyday #InternationalDayoftheAirTrafficController pic.twitter.com/N4rG5mOlba

  — NATS (@NATS) October 20, 2019

• This American Airlines flight attendant is, apparently, offering this as an homage to Kylie Jenner.

  Doing the lord’s work this morning on the red eye in from LAX. RuhISE & SHIyNE babes. pic.twitter.com/lb5s6rROLW

  — ig:cameron_blackmon (@macbackwardz) October 19, 2019