After a great time visiting my family in the Sydney suburbs and staying at the Park Hyatt Sydney for four nights it was time to move on.
Since we were in Sydney anyway Singapore seemed pretty much close enough, a short-ish flight away and an opportunity to eat some great food. Singapore is one of my favorite food cities in the world along with Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur.
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Dr. David Dao thrust airline overbooking policies into the national spotlight in April.
Airlines quickly revised their policies. American Airlines has quietly made one more change to their procedure to handling overbooking situations.
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
The TSA has failed to meaningfully detect dangerous items going through the checkpoint for years. Two years ago their disclosed 95% failure rate seemed shocking and surprising to many but is hardly new, ten years ago they had a 91% failure rate.
Much hand wringing ensued.
Yesterday’s Air India flight AI880 from Bagroda to Delhi took off without functioning air conditioning.
The 168 passengers onboard did not like it one bit. Air India dismisses this as “a technical matter” but promises “an investigation.”
Delta is reportedly in talks with Jet Airways to take a 24% stake in the Indian airline. Jet Airways and Delta are already partners. This would put them in business with arch Gulf rival Etihad.
This appears to have been great work all around by the flight crew and by emergency responders. Grateful that all onboard are safe. We don’t yet know the cause of the incident.
I always find it super cheap and off putting when a hotel club lounge has water to pour into cups, and no bottles you can take away, like at the Grand Hyatt New York.
As much of a hard time as I give travel providers for nickel and diming premium passengers, I also understand the conundrum when some of those passengers abuse the system.
Delta’s new 15 minute documentary is a big lie.
There is no economic theory which supports protectionism for mature profitable industries. The push for government action against Etihad, Emirates, and Qatar is pure self-interest at the expense of US consumers. And they’re willing to do anything in furtherance of that interest whether it’s fabricating evidence their white paper or sucking up to President Trump.
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