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
First, the award of 100,000 miles go to the baby, so the kid would get the 1099 and would unlikely cross the thresehold of income for 2025 to owe taxes. Second, the miles will disappear in 18 months without activity of AA.
@Dave W – I think the 1099 should go to the baby but the offer terms say it goes to the submitting parent. And the miles will not disappear after 18 months. First, AA’s expiration policy is 24 months. And second, there’s no expiration for members under age 21.
@Gary, thanks, I forgot AA went to 24 months for expiration (or did another used to have 18?), and I was unaware of the special policy for those under 21. But, the cited article says: “Upon verification, the winning baby will enjoy 100,000 AAdvantage® miles, which will be added in their new AAdvantage® member account.” But, after reading your repy, I went further to the terms: “Parents of the winning baby will receive a Form 1099.” So, my bad……
I despise these seizure laws. Use my car to import alcohol into my state, they can seize the car. Why should someone with a $500 beater get a $500 fine, and the guy with a $50,000 car get a $50,000 fine? Make there be a fine that’s the same for all. If you want to argue that it’s OK, because these fines “hit the richer harder,” I respond that there are a lot of rich in inexpensive cars and luxury car drivers with low net worth. It always breaks down to a money grab: “the guest on your yacht had a gram of cocaine, now the government owns your yacht.”
THUGS doing what they always do!