News and notes from around the interweb:
- Three young dolphins from Dolphin Quest in the Hilton Waikoloa Village to Dolphin Quest Oahu Inc. located at the Kahala Hotel &Resort Oahu. They’ll fly, but they won’t earn miles. What’s worse, since their hotel stay is longer than 30 days they earn neither points nor elite credit for that, either. (HT: C.B.)
- An Allegiant Las Vegas – Fargo flight arrived in North Dakota almost out of fuel and found the airport closed.
- American is closing the Admirals Club in Buffalo, New York — a throwback to a time when US Airways was the dominant carrier in the Northeast (they now carry fewer than 900 departing passengers a day). It doesn’t surprise to see the closure, I’m shocked it lasted this long.
- The Chinese hackers who breached federal government personnel records also penetrated United Airlines and reportedly took flight manifests.
- In defense of room service (HT: Alan H.)
- Attacking a journalist who covers you, while in the TSA queue together, can get you fired. (HT: toqueville)
- British Airways will be limiting the size of the personal item you can carry on and only allowing elites to board after all premium cabin passengers. Bronze, Silver, Gold, and invitation-only elites will all board at the same time after business passengers.
I wonder what other former US Air Clubs in the northeast are on the chopping block?
US/AA only fly to BOS, CLT, PHL, DCA, and ORD from BUF. I’m surprised as well it was still around as the AA merger only brought ORD into the fold.
I’m worried about the PIT club. It’s in aesthetic disarray although somewhat functional, despite AA/US being the primary airline at the airport (they fly to all the major hubs, including LAX, CLT, PHL, PHX, DFW on mainline and ORD, MIA, JFK, LGA, DCA on Eagle, plus other cities like BDL, RDU, STL, BOS).
Too bad. Used BUF lounge quite a bit when I had the Citi Executive card. That card gave you membership so I used it whenever I flew. Certainly small and very dated (it was decor ala 1995), it was an ice quite place to wait and have coffee. BTW, things went downhill for US when they stopped flights to LGA and traded the slots with DL at DCA.
Amol – I agree about PIT. As funky as it is, I would hate to see it go. I just boomeranged back to the Burgh, so it is now my hub. The AA lounge isn’t even listed on the airport web site or map.