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New and notes from around the interweb:
- Air Canada passengers thought they were buying up to business class ultimately kicked off after a brouhaha when they had only purchased preferred seats in coach.
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- Southwest Airlines pulling out of Newark. Southwest was given 36 of Continental’s Newark slots as a condition of the United-Continental merger, though it’s now gates that are the primary constraint at the airport.
- The CIA wrote a manual on how spy pilots could avoid having to use the bathroom while flying (HT: Gregory M.) Here are some other CIA travel tips.
- Novel phishing attack against American Express cardmembers
- Allegiant Airlines will sell its golf course management software business who knew they were even in that sector?
- BWI Airport will get a Minute Suites on Concourse C, most accessible to Southwest and American passengers. American Express-issued Priority Pass cards will still offer Minute Suites access.
- World’s first guitar-shaped hotel is now accepting reservations
Air Canada crew are the usual rabble. Indifferent at best to downright rude and argumentative
De-escalation is not a word they are familiar with.
Not to be crude…but how do we know there are not “adult extracirricular activities” occuring in Minute Suites?
I’ve never actually booked one via Priority Pass so maybe the answer is obvious (there are cameras, access is only allowed for one person [though that doesn’t mean something dirty isn’t happening]). But I’ve felt a little squeamish about it up until this point because how can you be sure?
Many many reasons why unmanned planes are better for surveillance than piloted planes
I think if you ask for “those big seats up front”, you get exactly what you deserve when they give you economy plus.
Also, I don’t have all the information (maybe they used their own money) but it’s not the BEST look to be buying yourself a better seat on a trip with students who had to do a bake sale just to be able to visit Vancouver…