News and notes from around the interweb:
- A simple hack to get Hyatt to show points prices alongside rates in its search results
- 25% off JetBlue awards booked by Thursday.
- Ultra low cost carrier Allegiant is updating its livery and letting employees pick. They’re buying new Airbus A320s.
- In defense of drinking in airports. (A reasonable counterpoint to this.)
At least 442 people were arrested in the UK for drunken airport loutery between 2014 and 2016. Annoying, sure. But let’s give this some perspective: in 2014 alone, British airport terminals handled 238 million passengers. That’s one raving vomity lush per 538,461 passengers. Banning airport boozing because of this infinitesimal few would be a colossal overreaction.
- The man arrested for refusing to stop doing yoga on a United flight received time served (13 days) and must pay United Airlines $44,000. United could donate it to a yoga charity, maybe?
- Alaska Airlines shopping portal bonus up to 1500 points for $750 online shopping spend by August 14. (HT: Doctor of Credit)
- Paypal class action settlement for frozen or suspended accounts. Some folks will get up to $440.
Airport booze ain’t going nowhere: anything that can command a 700% markup will find a way to survive.
I would have thought the case in favor of allowing alcohol (in airports/flying/wherever) is simple and obvious: it brings a huge amount of pleasure to a huge number of people. On any plausible overall measure (which is what an overall restriction has to be assessed against) these positive consequences surely swamp the negative consequences. No?
I agree with the first poster—- my $14 Stella last night in the lovely environs of Oakland Terminal 2, unable to see the bar TV’s baseball game and with Chili’s telling us that any food ordered would take “45 minutes” is plenty of evidence that this booze is sustaining the contracts for the airport.
One could make the same argument for just about anything at airports. Y ban people on terrorist lists? Only a very small amount of people on those lists have brought flown planes into buildings. Y outlaw guns on planes, I’m sure there have been very few shootings on airplanes. Y ban smoking on a plane, I’m sure very few passengers will get cancer from a 3 hour flight on a plane where smoking is allowed he’ll I bet the air in my city is worse than cigarette smoke.
Here is some more proof of why booze selling is indefensible at airports. Pilots should not have to take down drunks who put hands on crewmembers and kids should not have to see this kinda sh!t while on vacation.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article93062277.html