News and notes from around the interweb:
- Thursday’s storms forced a Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 to divert from New York JFK to tiny Stewart Newburgh. The airport’s runway 9-27 is nearly 12,000 feet, well more than enough for a fully loaded A380 to take off and no problem for landing. However without a gate passengers had to deplane – after some hours – via stairs. (HT: Jonathan W.)
Singapore Airlines A380 - Was EVA Air or Virgin Atlantic first with premium economy in 1992? I don’t know, but I do know that most marketing claims Virgin has made turned out to be fanciful..
EVA Air Boeing 777 Premium Economy Today - jetBlue employees will also get $1000 tax reform bonuses it’s interesting that $1000 was the figure that all airlines seem to be deciding on.
- The Museum of Ice Cream is racking up environmental fines because people are tracking sprinkles outside.
- Caesars Total Rewards backtracks a bit on restrictive Diamond lounge access rules
- How they eat at the National University of Singapore
Hawker center in Singapore
They are kinda sorta almost lucky they got to deplane at Stewart … JFK has been a mess. You all saw the horror story of passengers being kept 7 hours on the plane at JFK before deplaning, right?
Snow removal here has been the most complicated in decades because of the ongoing deep freeze. During normal storms they plow a lot the stuff into the avenues and major streets and let cars flatten it into slush. It has been so freaking cold in NYC that they have bulldozers (even as I type this) scooping mountains of icy snow into rubbish-removal trucks. As to the chaos at JFK, where seemingly they got less snow than the rest of the city… gotta wonder.