News and notes from around the interweb:
- Is this just poor game theory, choosing a middle seat when the aisle and window are open? I suspect that non-middles required a fee to assign.
This is 1000% unhinged behavior. pic.twitter.com/gs40cebNvb
— Chris Munn (@chrisxmunn) September 7, 2023
- 3 ex-Cathay Pacific flight attendants jailed for up to 6 months in Hong Kong for abusing employee travel scheme by accepting HK$90,000 in bribes
- Northern Pacific Airways was going to fly between the U.S. and Asia via Anchorage with used Boeing 757s. That’s some business plan, but they saw themselves becoming the low yield Icelandair of the Pacific. Their hopes of losing money that way were dashed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a ban of overflying Russia, making their routes impossible.
Now they’ve got a new name… New Pacific Airlines instead of Northern Pacific Airways. It could just be that they’ve settled the trademark lawsuit against them by BNSF, whose BNSF Railway had a corporate predecessor Northern Pacific until 1970.
Looks like a name change in the works for NP. The twitter handle has been updated, but no official statement yet from the company. #AvGeek pic.twitter.com/cQomyisFhd
— Seth Miller (@WandrMe) September 7, 2023
- Woman loses toe inside room at MGM Grand Las Vegas after she tells man $200 is ‘not enough’
- Fresh food returns to United Express, maybe that’ll finally push American Airlines to drop the Spicer Sad Boxes?
- Ouch, but not entirely unfair.
"Flying a Boeing 737 is like driving a ‘68 Chevy Impala with a semi-modern dashboard. We note that Boeing continues to ride on the coattails of its past glory." So says @BankofAmerica analyst Ron Epstein in a new report. @Boeing.
— Leeham News and Analysis (@LeehamNews) September 8, 2023
@ Gary — Democratic predators, for sure.
I have a toe for sale here in Las Vegas
Guess he didn’t toe the line
If middle seats are the only free seats, I don’t bother reserving one. I may get assigned a window or aisle for free at check-in.
they do that hoping nobody seats next to them, not that hard to figure it out
when I travel with my wife or one of my kids we choose aisle and window and leave the middle empty so it is the last seat to go, and most of the time it owrks, and if it does not then someone moves to the middle and thats it
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
The injured toe story made me think of a story I read recently. In Canada they have a drink called Sour Toe I think. It’s a real toe from a dead person coated in epoxy so your mouth doesn’t come in contact with the toe. I still wouldn’t try it.
I’d rather drive a ’68 Impala with a modern dash than a 1980 Peugeot with a modern dash.
I like that “owrks”. Maybe it will join “hodl” and we could get constructs such as, “What owrks best in investing is to buy and hodl”.
People choose the middle seat because it’s free. Notice the seats around them have small ticks in the corner, they’re probably extra cost. The middle seats are free.
@Carol – Close but the toe isn’t covered in epoxy, it’s not always from a dead person, and it is supposed to touch your teeth as you drink.
I sometimes pick the middle seat to discourage people from sitting next to me then switch again if I get a neighbor, up until boarding. I also dont mind the middle seat that much if my neighbors arent fat. Getting both arm rests is nice too.
Re: middle seats on Delta, it is because that is the best chance for having an empty seat next to you. The window and aisle seats are both preferred, meaning they are selectable with premium status or for a fee.
On most flights that are <95% full, there are not enough elites selecting both the window and aisle preferred seats (or some that do are upgraded to comfort+ or first class), and Delta will assign Basic Economy customers to every seat further back before assigning them to preferred seats. Unless there are a bunch of non-revs or the flight is 95%+ full, you are highly likely to have zero or one other person in that row, meaning you can leave the middle seat empty.
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