News and notes from around the interweb:
- Commenter GUWonder: He’s “deplaning early” – “when kids know what is proper more than their dad:”
A man was removed from a Viva Aerobús flight after physically and verbally assaulting flight attendants, allegedly in Puerto Vallarta. His children pleaded with him to stop.
▶️ Bajan de vuelo de Viva Aerobús a hombre luego de que agrediera física y verbalmente a sobrecargos, presuntamente en Puerto Vallarta. Sus hijos le suplicaban que se detuviera.
Especial pic.twitter.com/BdjbVastin
— Telediario Guadalajara (@TelediarioGDL) April 28, 2025
- The first baby born on May 1 will receive 100,000 American Airlines AAdvantage miles celebrating the program’s anniversary and highlighting signing kids up for the program.
But boy is this offer weird. Times will be adjusted to U.S. Central, so many babies born on April 30th are actually eligible. It’s not obvious how they adjudicate ties. And the parents will be 1099’d for $2,750 which is insanely high (and makes the prize not really worth winning). It seems to me that the child should receive the tax report, and they likely wouldn’t have other income and therefore wouldn’t owe tax.
I’d still enter, and just dispute the value of the prize since American Airlines does regularly sell miles for less to the ‘market value’ where there’s willing buyers and sellers seems lower, plus citing various online estimates of the value of the points.
- JSX opens new terminal in Orange County
The new JSX facility includes a larger lounge, more seating, the addition of an espresso machine, and lots of windows to make this waiting area brighter than the previous location on the other side of the airport. It also includes other standard elements like restrooms and security prior to boarding.
New TSA rules lobbied for by American Airlines and Southwest require a reconfiguration of security (and costs that will make new entrants similar to JSX prohibitively expensive).
- Alaska Supreme Court upholds seizing a plane because its pilot knowingly transported beer
- Clean. Your. Planes.
@AmericanAir Great cleaning job as walk on to airplane pic.twitter.com/Jfx94UFKhx
— Jason (@Rupedawg) April 28, 2025
- An oral history of North Texas barbecue which lags Central Texas, of course. (HT: Dan C.)
What happened to the days when a family showed up for a flight, properly behaved, dressed properly (not suit and ties/dresses but also not wife beaters, daisy dukes, and essentially bras), and polite? Those days actually did exist. The idea that my father would have had an argument with flight crew, leave alone an actual fight, would been as imaginable as a flight crew made up of big rabbits.
Those aren’t FAs, They’re gate agents and ground crew.
Gary, I like this new referring to commenters in your posts. @GUWonder, nicely done! As always, #CLEANYOURPLANES 100% and hire more cleaners, and pay those cleaners more, and provide them with support, training, benefits, etc. It’s the whole package. It’s leadership, or lack thereof.
S/O to @GUWonder!
Very cool sounding promotion AA thought of but yes the parents getting 1099’d (not to be confused with it’s anagram @”1990″) is not ideal to say the least . Reminds me when Tom Brady gifted Malcolm Butler the Ford F150 from the Sehawkas Super Bowl but Butler could hardly pay the tax on it at that point.
Wow I wonder how long those snacks have been accumulating….
Kudos to those kids for behaving properly and trying to rein in their dad. I’m sure they’ll never let him forget his childlike behavior.
As a second-place prize, does the second baby born on May 1st get a prize of 200,000 AAdvantage miles?
@L737 — Oh buddy, I’m a huge fan of 1099-INTs, specifically. Less independent contractor, more certificate of deposit, interest income, minimal risk +5% rate of return. Not to go completely ‘manic’ here, but… thass mah best friend you’re talkin’ bout righ thur, son! Speaking of manic… Netflix’s Maniac, incredible miniseries with Jonah Hill.
@Ken A — When I read you talking about ‘second…prize’ I couldn’t picture Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross, “second prize… a set of steak knives…”
*couldn’t help (again, Gary, the edit button, c’mon) bah
I remember when the flight attendants were young and pretty , plus they were they to help you… Not Boss you Around like prison guards